Thanks to the SLexperiments group
While this blog is about my personal Second Life teaching experiences, explorations and experiments, there is also a SLexperiments language teachers group, which I founded together with two wonderful...
View ArticlePresentation: Language Learning and Teaching in Virtual Worlds
As mentioned in my previous post, today my colleagus and I presented at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices Conference in Second Life about our 6-week online teacher training session Virtual Worlds &...
View ArticleOnline 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...
View ArticleIt’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 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...
View ArticleLanguage 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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