Jazz and Word

For the past year I have been thinking about how to use Second Life to help students have an immersion experience of the pre-exilic Israel and Judah and post-exilic Yehud. The New Media Consortium is doing interesting educational things in Second Life. However, as a far as I can tell no one has used this to improve instruction in biblical studies.
Here is what I am thinking about re-framing Christian Scriptures 1 class next fall. I will have a panel of experts that student groups I am looking for at least one of each of the following: Near Eastern archeologist, gamer, new media expert, Second Life expert, cinematographer and educator. The student groups will work with these guides to build a face-to-face simulation that will be recorded. The panel will view the simulation and provide feedback which will give Second Life developers information for a Second Life build for a subsequent year.
After this step it seems that one could then secure the funding necessary to build a site in Second Life.