I've been reading... well scanning... too tired to focus on anything for too long, but this stuff looks promising. Will read more when the sun is up.
Government Grant to Preserve Virtual Worlds (Second Life)
Instructional Scaffolding
The Year 3000
Classroom Practices
EduBlogger World
There seem to be a lot of kid-adventure-fantasy-books-made-into-movies... movies coming out these days...
The Golden Compass
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
And there's a.. uhm... an Interesting version of Beowulf coming out.