1. Title -MetaVersEd Ltd. Digital  Library for K-12 Education in Second Life Resources

2. Mission statement - The mission of the MetaVersEd Ltd. Digital Library  is to support the educational and research objectives of the Second Life K-12 education community (teachers, students, researchers, technology coordinators, parents, administrators) by collecting and providing technological access to materials in a variety of digitized formats.  Selection is limited in its subject scope to those materials that apply to K-12 education on the Teen Grid of Second Life. This may include but not be limited to:

• academic articles and journal entries

• curriculum and lesson plans

• tutorials

• news features

• machinima (movies created in the virtual world)

• video

• images

• conference notes

• blogs and wikis

• podcasts

• research

• communications (list-serves, email, IM and chat logs)

• digitized print materials

 Wherever possible, permissions have been obtained for use in this collection. (see copyright and permissions page.)  Some resources have been transferred to this collection in their original digitized format, while others have been digitized for use in this collection.  The primary purpose of this collection is to create a resource for the expedition of information relating to K-12 education using Second Life as well as to preserve a record of the evolution of  this developing pedagogy.  Although there are many college and university presences on the Main Grid of Second Life, we have refined our collection to those topics as they relate to K-12 virtual Education in Second Life.

3. Collection policy - The collection favors materials that directly address the mission of the MetaVersEd Ltd. collection and are well-documented, easy to use, fully operational, motivational for learners, pedagogically effective, scientifically accurate, and that foster mastery of significant understandings or skills. The collection provides access to a broad range of K-12 education in Teen Second Life materials.

4. Organization of collection - The collection has been organized by project and resource format and is composed of, but not limited to, hyperlinks, images, electronic publications, digitized items such as texts, sounds, pictures and machinima. There is a menu bar on all pages for easy navigation as well as back to top anchors in all longer entries.

5. Resource descriptions - .

• Educational materials - case studies, homework exercises, tutorials, guided inquiry sets, lesson plans, syllabi, classroom activities, curricula, modules, field trips, problem sets

• Assessment and pedagogical materials - exams, quizzes, questionnaires, self-assessments, learning and teaching techniques and educational research, etc.

• Research materials - journal articles, summaries, abstracts, arguments, theses, policies, indices, etc.

• Data - Any available data corresponding to efficacy

• Annotations - comments, reviews, teaching tips, ideas for use, additional resource content

• Collections - collections of educational materials, annotations and news and opportunities organized around a topic or theme

• News and opportunities - information on grants, conferences, workshops, professional development, opportunities, etc.

• Tools - software or applications for interacting, accessing, manipulating or viewing, converters, models and simulations

• Generic objects of value - frequently asked questions (FAQ's), name-value pairs like glossary terms

6. Access and use - The FreeFind Search Engine was embedded in the website

7. Services features - Feedback page, hit counter, contact page and link to Metaversed Ltd. Digital Library wiki for constructive.conversation

8. Interface design - I have designed a user-friendly intuitive site.

9. Enhancement, Evaluation &/or Maintenance plan- I plan to apply for grant monies in order to fully develop this Digital Library and maintain and preserve its contents.  If no grant funding becomes available I will personally preserve the current incarnation.