Hello,

I have just finished reading your E-Learning and Social Networking Handbook. I found it an invaluable resource to use for the classroom. I was introduced to Second Life for the first time while reading your book, and in the past two days I have heard news threads about 1) a man and women getting divorced because of his simulated "affair" with a Second Life woman and 2) a baby dying of starvation because the mother and father were nurturing an online baby.

Granted, I definitely would not want to discourage the use for the many because of a few odd cases, but I think that this is a fascinating phenomenon occurring, socially and psychologically. I would love to hear your insights into this, and maybe how we as educators can prepare students psychologically for the power that these sites can have.

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I am writing a review of this excellent and very useful book. [Hello Robin :-))]. But I am disappointed that it neither came with a CD of the online references, nor are the url references listed here. Surely in the spirit of Web2 that could be done - - please?

Anita Pincas, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education,University of London,
Online Education and Trainin.
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/OET.htm

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