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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” or “teacher” has always encompassed all of the above to a greater or [...]
Here are two machinima (videos produced in Second Life) that illustrate some of the educational uses of Second Life, a 3D virtual world. Enjoy!
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 a while now. Throughout this journey and as a member of the Webheads (an online community of practise), I [...]
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 the process of planning the course and the lessons, writing post-lesson evaluations and [...]
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 immersive virtual world sounded just like the right thing to engage students and provide a safe [...]
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 teaching?”.
He added some ideas to start the discussion:
Build up a list of pedagogically useful tools.
Build up a [...]
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 and converts your new blog posts automatically to podcasts. This ususally [...]
Through Twitter I found this beautiful little tool called Wordle. I don’t know whether it is useful but it’s definitely fun and looks good. After a long day typing text and being serious it might be just the right tool to relax a bit and be creative.
Had to right that boring letter or have [...]
In 2007, I did my Cambridge University DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults) course and took the exam. This was the logical step after having done the CELTA in 2003.
I started preparing for the DELTA long before the actual course by doing research on the Internet, reading about various topics and taking an online [...]