Montreal's Lasalle College just opened a new campus, made almost entirely of glass, where students can levitate to class.



Yes, you read that right. Their students fly.



In the virtual world known as Second Life, people aren't bound by the laws of physics, but it's as close as it gets to the real thing for students taking online courses from their homes.



"You can interact visually with the teachers," said Jean-Francois Comeau, a business development manager at Lasalle, "and with the students too. This has never been possible in web seminars."



Granted, those students and teachers are represented by cartoon-like characters, who may look nothing like the real person controlling them from a computer. It hardly matters to the downtown trade school. With this new e-learning platform, Lasalle became the first Canadian school to offer courses in Second Life's make-believe universe.