EFL Professor in SL: May 2010

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Educational Uses of Second Life

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Virtual Campuses

* Campus:Second Life (Pathfinder Linden's hosted space for educators) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus/150/100
* Global Kids Island - (The Main Grid location that reports on activities at the Global Kids location in the Teen Grid.) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cincta/89/95/23/
* Harvard Law School's Austin Hall - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/69/54/24/
* Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Hotel & Tourism Management - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Polyusotel/114/158/26/
* New Media Consortium Campus (private sim, Electric Sheep build, free sign up for access; overview movie) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Campus/142/223
* Ohio University Second Life Campus - http://slurl.com/secondlife/ohio%20university/20/36/24/
* Bowling Green State University Virtual Campus - http://slurl.com/secondlife/bowling%20green%20state/140/140/140/
* Northern Illinois University, Glidden Campus - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Glidden/88/166/30/
* The Sistine Chapel (Vassar Island) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/vassar/165/91/24
* Democracy Island (NYLS) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Democracy%20Island/116/220/
* Info Island (Incorporating SL & ICT Libraries, TechSoup) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/52/193/
* Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vue/205/53/30
* Saint Leo University Virtual Campus- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Saint%20Leo%20University/128/128/41/

Science and Health

* Second life Health education (pbwiki) (Navid Tomlinson) - http://healtheducationsl.pbwiki.com/
* UC Davis' Virtual Hallucinations (James Linden) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/sedig/27/45/22/
* Heart Murmur Sim (medical assessment experiment, built 3/06) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/waterhead/130/37
* The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Second Life - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Juwangsan/218/223
* Second Health - Imperial College, London - Local Hospital Polyclinic
* Second Life Medical Library 2.0/Consumer Health Library/HealthInfo Island - SLurl 1, SLurl 2, SLurl 3
* Spaceport Alpha (incorporating International Spaceflight Museum and Second Life Planetarium by Chaac Amarula) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/23/51/22/
* Solar Eclipse Planetarium (Aimee Webber) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Midnight%20City/94/76/27/
* Svarga (Laukosargas Svarog's virtual eco-system) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/128.0/128.0
* NOAA's Virtual Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteroa/177/161/27/
* A Sexual Health SIM in Second Life (University of Plymouth) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/33/63/22 (info)
* Genome (Biology, Genetics) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/130/130/48

Places to Learn about Education in SL

* Second Life introduction (Navid Tomlinson) - http://healtheducationsl.pbwiki.com/Introduction+to+Second+Life
* Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Library on Info Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/50/199/33/?title=Info%20I...

Places to Learn Second Life Skills

* Academy of Second Learning - http://slurl.com/secondlife/eson/32/162//
* Ivory Tower of Prims (teaches in-world skills) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/204/70/25/
* Orientation Island (Public version of everyone's first time) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orientation%20Island%20Public/97/155
* Interactive Linden Script Tutorial - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daydream%20SE%20Islands/206/40

List of Second Life Locations!

The links below go to SL locations you might want to explore and ANNOTATE!:
(If anyone has any comments on these links it would be most helpful to leave them below ...)

1. Avilion http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Hinterlands/187/174/22

Friday, May 21, 2010

Graham Davies has written a guide to SL Viewer 2 for newbies in Word format. He shall be using it for his first f2f workshop on Viewer 2 at EUROCALL 2010 in Bordeaux. You can download the guide and find other materials for newbies here in Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT site:

http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-5.htm#secondlife

He has also created three videos on the EUROCALL/CALICO HQs, in which He conducts a tour of the EUROCALL building and demonstrate holodecks and shared media. See the ICT4LT blog:

Second Life videos: Groovy Winkler tours the EUROCALL/CALICO HQs..

What I liked the most when visiting his site, it is that he has written about iii. Language learning and teaching in Second Life. He included a list of organizations that dedicate their efforts to help teachers learn how to teach in virtual worlds. These are some of the ones I knew about and some I will be visiting soon.... smiles..

Association for Language Learning (ALL): See below.
AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline) is a two-year EU-funded project running from January 2009 to December 2010, aiming to explore 3D worlds for language learning: http://avalon-project.ning.com
Avatar Languages: Online language courses Second Life: http://www.avatarlanguages.com
British Council, Second Life for Teens: http://www.britishcouncil.org/hongkong-english-secondlife.htm
CALICO: See below.
Ciudad Bonita: A sim for learners of Spanish, with real-life Spanish teachers: http://blog.languagelab.com/2008/11/13/ciudad-bonita-is-open/. YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN3kfD64vbk
The Consultants-E, who own EduNation, run training courses in using Second Life, with a special focus on language learning and teaching: http://www.theconsultants-e.com
English Village: A space in Second Life for learners of English as a Foreign Language: http://englishvillage.asia/

EUROCALL: See below.
EUROCALL/CALICO Virtual Worlds Special Interest Group: http://virtualworldssig.ning.com
Stefanie Hundsberger's Report (2009): Foreign language learning in Second Life and the implications for resource provision in academic libraries, Arcadia Fellowship Programme, Cambridge University Library: http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/second_life.pdf LanguageLab: Online language courses in Second Life: http://www.languagelab.com/en/

Language learning in Second Life: an introduction: A useful video by Helen Myers (Karelia Kondor in SL) on her introduction to SL and her experiences in learning Italian: http://kareliakondor.blip.tv

MFL Resources: See below.
NIFLAR (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research): An EU-funded project, which began in January 2009: http://cms.let.uu.nl/niflar/ . The NIFLAR ning is here: http://niflar.ning.com
Mark Pegrum's wiki on Web 2.0 in Education - Virtual worlds: Includes references to spaces in Second Life where language students can practise the target language with natives and other learners, e.g. the German-speaking München, the Spanish-speaking SecondLifeSpain, Berlin Deutschland and Roma: http://e-language.wikispaces.com/virtual-worlds
Nick Peachey, Learning Technology Blog: Teaching English in Second Life:
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2007/08/teaching-english-in-second-life.html
RendezVu: A project, formerly known as Asimil8, that aims to provide immersive education for languages using virtual world technology: http://www.rendezvu.co.uk

RezEd, Language Learning in Virtual Worlds: http://www.rezed.org/group/languagelearninginvirtualworlds
Second Life English: http://esl-secondlife.blogspot.com
SLanguages: A wiki on learning languages in virtual worlds: http://slanguages.wikispaces.com
SLExperiments: A wiki written by Nergiz Kern (Daffodil Fargis in SL) for collecting and sharing ideas on how to use Second Life for teaching foreign languages: http://slexperiments.pbworks.com. See also Nergiz's personal blog: http://slexperiments.edublogs.org
TalkAcademy: http://www.talkademy.org
Teach You Teach Me: A buddy network in Second Life. The idea is simple: you pair up with somone who wants to learn your language and who is willing to teach you their language: http://teachyouteachme.ning.com. See Section 14.9 (below), headed Tandem learning (buddy learning).

TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO): A professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL Convention. TESOL EVO offers workshops on teaching in Second Life: http://evosessions.pbworks.com
Virtlantis: http://www.secondlifeenglish.com

Wikipedia, Virtual World Language Learning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world_language_learning

"How to teach a language in Second Life"

Project Avalon invited us to participate in the "How to teach a language in Second language" but dued to time constraints.. Pionia was nor there.. but thanks to Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi's blog ... She's Director Of Lancelot School... we can enjoy the encounter...

Questions which were asked ...

* What added value does Second Life provide for language learning?
* How second life may be used in language learning (passive/active?
* How assessment is being done?
* Whether moodle or any Content Management System is used and how?
* Whether viewer 2 makes a difference to educators?
* Whether the language business is growing healthily or is declining?
* How do we encourage peer-to-peer work?
* Whether it makes a difference if students know each other in Real Life?

and other great thoughts on language learning in Second Life

This session had the luck of having 40 language professionals in Second Life that discuss their views and experiences.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Walking and Moving

Educational Uses of Second Life

List of Second Life Locations!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Graham Davies

"How to teach a language in Second Life"