Not much time to write about this, but the MacArthur Foundation just granted the great folks at Global Kids $72,000 to create RezEd, an online social network for educators intreresting in using virtual worlds in edcuation.
From the MacArthur site:
The Virtual World Educators Network will be developed to serve as an online hub to promote the use of virtual worlds as rich learning environments. The participating community will share best practices, encourage dialogue, provide access to the leading research, provide podcast interviews with community leaders, and feature the latest news on learning in virtual worlds.
There’s not much more to report than that, but check out Rikomatic’s round up at The Click Heard Around the World for the full scoop on the funding.
Congrats to everyone involved. I’ll totally be there when RezEd launches.
