Are you involved in language learning / teaching in Second Life?

Please use this space to let us know if you or your organisation is involved in language learning in Second Life - write a brief summary of what you are doing and please leave links so people can find out more and/or can get in touch.

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Permalink Reply by Ton Koenraad on August 25, 2008 at 5:02pm

Hello Graham and all,
Would like to report on a project for languages in Virtual Worlds, not in SL this time, but in AW.
Please find my paper on the Dutch project 'Vitaal' for WorldCALL 2008 attached.
PPTs and other content on related activities are available from this page:
http://www.koenraad.info/VRALL/
Ciao Ton

Attachments:

worldcallpdf.pdf, 116 KB

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Permalink Reply by willem on November 8, 2008 at 9:48am: dear Ton,
good to see there are more Dutchmen out there who forthink the future. I am very interested and will read your paper soon. I myself have been a language teacher in the real world of Barcelona Spain for 30 years.
I have my own company called Back Up Line.
I am thinking of bying a language practice setting where virtual students can enjoy interaction with both hidden teachers and fellow students.
will get back to you after the paper
tot ziens
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Permalink Reply by Gloria B. Clark on September 25, 2008 at 5:42pm: Hi- I have been teaching hybrid Spanish courses for several semesters in the university classroom and SL. I am coordinating our SL experience with the text Mosaicos (Prentice Hall, 4th edition). I would love to hear about the experiences others have had with SL in the language classroom.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Salty Saenz (Frank) on October 9, 2008 at 8:54am: I have an EFL Teacher Training/Professional Development center that is new .. to be debuted on Oct 18th at the 35th MEX-TESOL international convention in Leon, Mexico. This is a center where I really hope to focus more on 21st century skills for teachers, rather than lets say teach grammar.

Asking all avatars to join us on Oct 18 to kick things off, http://metamexico.ning.com/xn/detail/849670:Topic:16885

SLURL = http://tinyurl.com/metamexico

Mexico English Teachers' Alliance, http;metamexico.ning.com; ▶ Reply to This

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