The advantage of Second Life is being able to change the learning environment to suit the learners. The first years have got into building little homes, so I've set them the task of creating a village. A quick bit of region texture tweaking and terraforming, and look of the land now suits the task.
10am - 5pm. "Build one of the following type of trees:" task. All pilot students, plus a couple of level 3 students, worked on this project as an activity as part of the Big Draw event, which also took place real life in Leeds Met Library.