Science in SecondLife

OK, I'll confess... I've been slow to embrace SecondLife. I think it's the skeptic in me; I've never been that excited by bleeding edge technology, and even cutting-edge technology makes me squeamish. Despite being a geek, I'm not usually an early adopter.

Today, someone sent me a link to a fabulous presentation about teaching Organic Chemistry in Second Life and now I'm started to get excited. (Not about Organic Chemistry, but I'm starting to believe in the educational possibilities of SL.)

"The following presentation was delivered Monday at the ACS conference in New Orleans and posted yesterday. It's about teaching organic chemistry in Second Life at Drexel U. It lasts about 15 min."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3463005886573729233&q=second+life&total=38772&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

There is also a wiki that provides the locations of molecules that people have made ( so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel, or rather, the "5-methylfurfurylamine"):
http://secondlifemolecules.wikispaces.com/


Check it out!