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First of all, I’d like to apologise for having neglected this blog a bit. I have been blogging over at http://slexperiments.edublogs.org about my English course and lesson planning in Second Life and my reflections on teaching and learning [...]
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Teachers are often asked to re-evaluate their roles and alternatives like facilitator, mentor, friend, learning partner, guide, et.c, etc. are suggested. I don’t like this discussion too much because the way I understand, interpret, use and try to live the expression “teach” [...]
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Here are two machinima (videos produced in Second Life) that illustrate some of the educational uses of Second Life, a 3D virtual world. Enjoy!
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My first Second Life English course has finished, certificates handed out, the SLexperiments Wiki and group has been constantly growing since we started it and I have been exploring Second Life’s potential for language teaching for [...]
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On 9 July 2008, I my first English course in Second Life started. So far, we have had three lessons and today will be the fourth. I have decided to publish my lessons plans online and blog about my experience by writing about [...]
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We are always talking about how teaching and learning has to change to in the 21st Century. And I frequently hear that a lot of research needs to be done in order to find out what works and how to implement that [...]
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Language teachers are always on the outlook for ways of motivating their students and helping them to learn faster and retain more. Naturally, I wanted to find out what that hype over Second Life was all about. A 3D [...]
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An online friend of mine and ESL teacher, Dennis Newson, asked a good question in our SLexperiments discussion group:
“What would be the components of a training course for teachers who want to use SL in and for their [...]
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We are launching our first Second Life English course in cooperation with Islamonline.net, an innovative organisation, who have two islands in Second Life devoted to training.
The free 6-week general English course is intended for pre-intermediate level students and will take place [...]
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Odiogo, which I have installed on all my blogs, is a wonderful tool to make podcasts out of your blog posts automatically. Once installed, which is extremely easy, you don’t have to do anything anymore. Odiogo receives information about new blog posts through RSS [...]
