A presentation for HUPE Zagreb branch meeting of teachers: a report on TESOL EVO courses Virtual Worlds and Language Learning, Teaching a Language in a Virtual World and the AVALON project will be the starting point for a discussion about the applicability of a virtual world for the study of English as a foreign language.

1. Teachers only live twice
- a teacher’s Second Life

2. What is Second Life?

3. Sanja /San Krokus in SL

4. Evaluating the potential of SL for LL
 Identity
 Community
 Spatiality
 Modality
 Creativity

5. Identity in SL
 avatar
 appearance and
emotions
 identity as a resource

6. Community
Friends function socializing COPs

7. Building a sense of community

8. Spatiality
 3D space
 movement and teleporting
 kinaesthetic learners’ paradise
 SL classroom and field trips

9. SL classroom

10. Modality
 Visual, text, aural channels
 Different learning styles
 Teaching the four skills
 Fluency and accuracy

11.  Teachers use voice and chat
 Students move during the lesson
 Clickable objects give information
 Information in voice, text and links

12. Creativity I
SL lessons
conversations with native speakers during field trips
Role play exercises in SL
Augmented phonetic reality
Simulations as language lessons
web 2.0 tools in a real life like environment

13. Creativity II
Using SL in an active way
moving /teleporting
building
Scripting

14. SL for professional development
 TESOL EVO VWLL and TLVW
 SLExperiments

15. AVALON TT course
 AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action
Learning Live Online) project for
experienced language teachers who are
interested in participating in a Language
Teacher Training Course in Second Life
 EU funded project
 15 February – 28 March 2010

16. AVALON – final project
 team teaching
 a presentation of the lesson and a 15 minute
activity ( a part of the lesson)

17. If you want to learn more:
 http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/w/page/
11306631/FrontPage
 http://www.slideshare.net/stevenw/muves-
and-second-lives-exploring-education-in-
second-life?src=embed
 http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-
5.htm#secondlife
 http://slexperiments.edublogs.org/2009/03/
03/starting-a-second-life/

18. Thank you!
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