Are you ready to teach in Second Life?
Are you planning to teach in SL? Do you have the skills it takes to be able to do so? Chris Collins or Fleep Tuque in SL, a very experienced SL educator, has shared her first draft of a teacher...
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Podcast: Being a language teacher in Second Life
I met Scottlo Scorbal , an English language teacher and podcaster based in Japan, when he signed up for the Virtual Worlds & Language Learning session that I co-moderated with three colleagues....
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How to communicate in Second Life
There are many different ways in which avatars can communicate in Second Life. We can distinguish between: public and private text and voice all vs groups versus one-to-one SL groups versus ad hoc...
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Accessibility of video tutorials and Second Life
Through a comment by David Miller on my blog about recording videos in SL, I came to this blog with a video tutorial about how to make animations for SL. My first reaction when watching it was “Why is...
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Online Session: Teaching Languages in a Virtual World
It’s EVO time again! The EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions are free 6-week online teacher development sessions for language teachers. This year’s sessions have started on 11 January. This means...
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It’s burning? What now?
A Second Life language lesson using a simulation As part of the “Teaching Languages in a Virtual World” session, I gave a demo lesson using a kitchen fire simulations (this is a Swiss project and you...
View ArticleVirtual “Makkah” and Al Andalus in Second Life
We are in week 3 of our Teaching Languages in a Virtual World seesion, which is all about real life places in Second Life and how these can be exploited for learning or practising languages or teaching...
View ArticleSo, what’s the added value of SL for ELT?
This question (in a more general form; not related to ELT) crops up every now and then on the various Second Life educational or research lists or other SL education platforms and among among...
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Language teacher communities in Second Life
When I started exploring Second Life in 2007 to find out whether it had to offer something for language teaching and learning, I didn’t know anybody in SL and only made slow progress, which was very...
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Second Life – A new spring for language learning?
I gave this presentation about language learning and teacher education in the 3D virtual world of Second Life at the final conference of the EU-funded Talk With Me project in Vienna in spring 2011.
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