It has been a long time between blogs as life has just been crazy! My visit to the Virtual worlds site was eyeopening! Do people really spend such a lot of time on these sites? Obviously I am too much into the real world to escape into this unreality!
However, for all types and styles of writing, recreating history, and creating imaginary worlds it would be a useful tool in the class room at all levels. It is a possible tool in creating cross curriculum tasks in all KLAs. You are only limited by your imagination! I had no idea these worlds existed, however, I have seen avatars in news items before.