Second Life

I think that this is one of those things that I will really need to experience to understand properly.

Some of concepts of why Second Life is better than a webpage escape me. I had a look at the site San Francisco museum, the Exploratorium, and they had a demonstration of what a meteor impact on the surface of Mars would look like. Why is having this in Second Life better than having it on the museum's website? It's all there on the website anyway.

From the learning point of view I can see how this would make correspondence course and external learning better. Being able to get together with other students virtually would be a big asset. There's nothing better than being able to share and group-think a problem.