Language Learning Resources in Second Life

Vance StevensPetroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi

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Created for Chris Hill’s Technology Session at the Ohio TESOL Conference, Nov 1, 2008

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Some links

• This presentation derives from research I did for an article in the The Linguist http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com/

• Annotated bibliography re: pedagogical resources on Second Life in education: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

• New Media Consortium, http://sl.nmc.org/• Over 150 educational institutions listing themselves

as maintaining presences in the Simteach Second Life Education Wiki http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

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Introductions to Second Life

• Learning to Teach in Second Life by Diane Carr, April 2008, http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/learning-to-teach-in-second-life/

• 50-slide presentation by

Alya Sulčič http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond

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Third Places

• Konrad Glogowski’s idea of classrooms becoming third places, apart from first and second places, (i.e. home and work– Ray Oldenburg,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Oldenburg).– Third places conducive to informal learning

• egalitarian environments • social constraints inherent in other spaces relaxed

– Virtual Classroom Project with Leigh Blackall: • http://jokaydia.com/jokaydia-projects/virtual-classroom-

project/ • and

http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/04/18/vcpreflection/]

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Transformative Potentials

• Mark Karstad uses SL with ladies at Dubai Women’s College http://www.slideshare.net/slanguages/microsoft-power-point-conservative-societies-considerations-from-the-middle-east

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Conferences / Connectivism

• Gavin Dudeney – http://slanguages.net – Webheads

support– Houses

Study.com

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Reaching Digital Immigrants

• Graham Stanley’s Teen Grid slideshow: http://www.slideshare.net/bcgstanley/learn-english-second-life-for-teens

• Graham’s rendition of

this talk at the IATEFL Conference in Exeter in April 2008, recorded here: http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=147

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Second Life English

• Kip Yellowjacket http://www.secondlifeenglish.com/news.php

• Blog full of tips and tutorials: http://www.esl-secondlife.blogspot.com/

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Immersive Language Learning

• Language Lab: Over to Daf Smirnov

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Enough from me!

• Vance Stevenshttp://adVancEducation.blogspot.com