Language Learning and Teaching with the aid of Technology

February 2010 Blog Posts (9)

Second Life launches its new Viewer 2

Second Life launches its new Second Life Viewer 2. It looks a lot easier to use than the current viewer - it leans quite a lot on standard Web browsers with which people are likely to be familiar, and it may shorten the learning curve for newbies.

Here is Linden Lab's Introduction to Second Life Viewer 2 on YouTube:

Go direct to the YouTube website for further tutorials on Viewer 2:…

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Added by Graham Davies on February 25, 2010 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

European Workshop on Teacher Education in CALL

A quick reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the Workshop on Teacher Education in CALL is coming up. Further details in the EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG Ning.

Added by Graham Davies on February 19, 2010 at 3:37am — No Comments

Introductory article on SL for language teachers

This is a low-key article (not really aimed at members of this Ning) that I was commissioned to write for Languages Today, a magazine published by the UK Association for Language Learning (ALL). The magazine targets teachers of foreign languages (mainly French, German and Spanish) at primary and secondary school level, most of whom have had no experience with virtual worlds. This is the article, published in Issue 4, Winter 2009/2010:…

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Added by Graham Davies on February 16, 2010 at 5:28am — No Comments

New Scene at CALICO/EUROCALL Holodeck--Forest Seating

Greetings all,

I've just added in a new scene to the holodeck. This one is a forest scene, that will give you a 360 degree view from inside the forest! In addition to the all-important fire circle, there is log seating, a picnic blanket with a fully stocked picnic basket, marshmallow roasting, and more! As with any of the holodeck scenes, any of you are welcome to make use of it!

Keep in mind that we have easily… Continue

Added by Randall Sadler on February 11, 2010 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments

Book, papers and articles on language teaching in virtual worlds

Hi everyone

I would like to draw your attention to this page on our…

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Added by Nergiz Kern on February 10, 2010 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

Augmented Reality Language Learning?

Hi everybody, 

Hi everybody, 
anybody around teaching through Augmented Reality Language Learning? 
what does it mean in practice? and how does it differ from learning in
virtual worlds? 
I'd greatly appreciate your comments  if you are familiar with this and
using it already (the benefits, the ways of use etc..
Thanks 
CEm

Added by cem balcikanli on February 9, 2010 at 7:19pm — No Comments

Diary of a Second Life English Teacher … Part 7

The spring Business Talking course started last Thursday with the course launch. Between 3pm and 6pm our time we had 63 avatars in total on Kamimo, with about 40 Americans there to find about 20 'Swedish' buddies, so that they could whisk them away and get extra credit for recording the 'Swedes'' reactions to what they'd seen. My tongue-in-cheek analysis is that you get Americans to do things by paying them - but you get Swedes to do things by appealing to their sense of what's good for the… Continue

Added by David Richardson on February 9, 2010 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

Call for papers - special issue of Language Learning & Technology on 'Learner Autonomy and New Learning Environments

This special issue of Language Learning & Technology will focus on the relationship between technology and learner autonomy. The affordances and constraints offered by new learning environments, whether in mobile, immersive, distance, or other forms of learning, often place greater, and in many cases different, demands on learners’ ability to manage their own learning.…

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Added by cem balcikanli on February 7, 2010 at 7:27am — No Comments

Call for papers - special issue of Language Learning & Technology on 'Learner Autonomy and New Learning Environments'

This special issue of Language Learning & Technology will focus on the relationship between technology and learner autonomy. The affordances

and constraints offered by new learning environments, whether in

mobile, immersive, distance, or other forms of learning, often place

greater, and in many cases different, demands on learners’ ability to

manage their own learning. At…

Continue

Added by cem balcikanli on February 7, 2010 at 4:49am — No Comments