#9 Virtual Reality

I have had a look at some of these Virtual Worlds and I have to say I'm personally not a fan. Throughout his primary years and early secondary, my now 19 year old son spent many hours playing "Runescape" then "Age of Empires". We had many real battles over the time he dedicated to these and I always felt they had an addictive quality. Now the craze is to play "Call of Duty" on the Internet and battle people you know or not! When I was completing my Librarianship by correspondence we had a virtual world where we could meet and we also had an online chat (MOOing).This was about four years ago and I have not had use for those again however if we were to do a virtual tour of an art gallery or a museum with our classes then I could definitely see that gaining their attention.