Educational access to second life tutorials and workshops...

Well I was just in my inbox (gmail) and I was sorting through the various pieces of 'junk-mail' I get (bills mostly' and Friend requests from bots that don't exist, or have met me, but still refer to me as 'sexy' and other ultra-familiar words of greeting. Most of my e-mails are met with varying degrees of 'loathing and fear. One e-mail, or e-mails that I keep getting is received with a bitter-sweet kind of response. They are the emails I keep getting from the 'New Citizens Group'. They are always pimping the latest class or workshop. They are always really interesting, and useful. The first time I heard about them I got really excited! I was really into experiencing an 'in-world' learning experience... It might be very important and useful, not only to get the knowledge available from such an event, but also in seeing how the teaching process 'plays-out' in the 'in'world' environment. What kind of modifications are needed and employed during 'in-world' pedagogy? It could be soooo helpful, and they were nice enough to have them at the convenient time of 4-6 PM. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, that's SL time (or West-Coast Cali time), anput 12 hours from me (located in Oman). That kills me... it assumes that everyone in the world using second life is going to be located in the states. I mean, If I wanted to check out this workshop I would have to get on the computer at 4-6 AM. That's a little intense. I mean I'm pretty gung-ho for all this, but there must be an easier way. I think I could really benefit from such kinds of tutorials, but I don't know... they are all scheduled for times that I would be in bed. I'm not proposing that we should have 'local' time workshops in for every region and country. But I am saying that Maybe they should have a more compatible schedule. Maybe two or three, one 12 hours away from the original time, and another 6 hours away from that. This way it would accommodate more users than this current system. I mean as a earning tool for language, one of the major resources for new learners of the technical aspect are the (pring resources. This is a very clear case of the learners being separated from a Major resource. Let's face it if you can't learn the system easuly, you would be less likely to participate often. Now throw on top of this technical challenge a language barrier. I would also like to know what kind of materials are used in these workshops, and also what kind of language is used. This might put a a new-spin' on Second Life. Well these are some thoughts I'm going to ponder ab it more. Right now I'm going to stew in my discontent. See you 'in-world'