Second Life for education resources like blogs, wikis, research articles, links, classes, group that can be joined, etc.
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http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Etopia%20Island/191/56/22
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Landmark | Etopia Eco Village is a virtual world that emulates how the real world should actually be. |
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (link added March2011) |
Journal | Fully online and free access, pdf articles about various research projects in MUVEs. Also includes other grids. Current issue Vol.3 number 2 is dedicated to Virtual Worlds for kids. |
Second Life Section at the ICT4LT site | Resources | Lots of information about language learning and teaching in SL. Many useful links to websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, articles and books. Regularly edited and added to by Graham Davies (Groovy Winkler in SL). ICT4LT website Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5. |
Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World | Article | Report on experience in teaching Blended class at University level. Part of at the SLeducause Constituent Group meetings. (Many more articles to find from there) |
Collection of LMs, information, news, etc. |
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Presentation |
A slide presentation about SL for education. Some other virtual worlds are also mentioned at the beginning. |
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Foreign Language Learning in Second Life and the Implications for Resource Provison in Academic Libraries | Report |
Stefanie Hundsberger (2009) arcadia@cambridge: rethinking the role of the research library in a digital age |
MyChina Village Project |
Project Presentation Research |
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Devil Island Mystery | Project | Christopher Surridge (Christopher flow in SL) has led a very successful University level English Curriculum called the Devil Island Mystery last year |
Best Practices in Virtual Worlds Teaching - A guide to using problem-based learning in Second Life (book in PDF format) | Book | More info here. |
The Cardenio Project, University of Southampton |
Project Research Articles |
A project with the aim of (i) investigating notions of culture and personal identity in SL through a series of in-world search tasks and blog discussions; (ii) exploring the potential of SL for informal learning and more specifically as a platform for specific language learning and teaching purposes. |
The M3 Project, University of Southampton |
Project Research |
A project investigating the integration of Second Life and Twitter with a Moodle course for international students: PowerPoint presentation. |
The EUROCALL/CALICO Virtual Worlds Special Interest Group: http://virtualworldssig.ning.com/ |
Ning | Special Interest Group, founded at the EUROCALL 2009 Conference, Spain. Jointly managed by Graham Davies (EUROCALL) and Randall Sadler (CALICO). New members welcomed. Blogs, discussions, chat, photos, videos. |
Virtual Worlds Users' Perceptions of Second Life | Paper |
VIRTUAL WORLDS USERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING – AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SECOND LIFE - Susana de Almeida José Lagarto Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal |
Designing Oral Participation in Second Life – A Comparative Study of Two Language Proficiency Courses | Article |
Deutschmann, M., L. Panichi, J. Molka-Danielsson (in print 2009). ReCall 21(2) |
Talking into empty space? - Signalling involvement in a virtual language classroom in Second Life | Article |
Deutschmann, M. & L. Panichi (forthcoming 2009) ALA Journal special issue 2009 |
Virtual worlds, language learning and intercultural exchange |
Article |
Panichi, L., Deutschmann, M & J. Molka-Danielsson. In Helm, F. & S. Guth. Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Series Editors: Melinda Dooly and Robert O’Dowd. Peter Lang publishers. |
Starting a Second Life | Article | by Nergiz Kern (2009), original in ETp issue 61, p. 57-59, N. K. describes how she became a virtual (lang.) teacher (and her first course). |
Teaching and Learning in Second Life - experience from the KAMIMO project (pdf) | Article | Includes David Richardson's report on his English course in SL on KAMIMO (also see book about this project on this list) |
Landmarks |
Educational LMs (residents can add LMs by using a free HUD).
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Streaming Video in Second Life | Tutorial |
Link for streaming Video in SL |
Landmarks |
A blog about interesting places to visit in SL (including pictures) |
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Resources |
Building, scripting, textures, resources, in-world tools, SL in education, etc. |
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Tutorial |
Linden Scripting Language (LSL) portal |
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Tool |
Sloodle integrates the Second Life® multi-user virtual environment and the Moodle learning-management system. (Open Source) |
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Tutorial | Official and resident video tutorials in Second Life from the Second Life wiki: from basic to technical. | |
Streaming_Music | Tutorial | Streaming music in SL from your own computer or from an Online Radio Station. Watch the tutorials. Very useful (alicia) |
http://www.vollee.com/secondlife | Second LIfe on your MOBILE!!! (alicia) | |
Podcast (mp3 link towards the end of the page)
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A LindenLab podcast about education in SL, a lot of interesting links. | |
http://snurl.com/2eh1n |
Excellent blog with interesting ideas and links to get going shared projects. The post Wiki Roles for Shared Projects caught my attention. |
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http://snurl.com/boisestateuni
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Teacher development | 10 Challenges & Solutions to Teaching in SL |
http://snurl.com/slforedu |
The Educational Possibilities of SL - a presentation incl links to videos |
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http://snurl.com/vanceaboutsl | Article | Articles about SL in education by Vance Stevens |
Programming in SL | Tutorial | Script tutorial for Second LIfe (LSL) including a library of scripts |
Learning to teach in Second Life | Teacher development | "a summary of the things that we found out by teaching 4 sessions in Second Life between November 2007 and March 2008, as part of the ‘Learning from Social Worlds" |
BestPractices.pdf | Teacher development |
Global Kids, Inc.’s Best Practices in Using Virtual Worlds For Education |
Annotated bibliography | Resources | An annotated bibliography of Second Life educational resources, articles, etc. online |
Calendar Events in Second Life. Very useful. Monthly updated (alicia) | ||
http://arianeb.com/secondlife.htm | Tutorial | A useful site if you want to change your appearance or your walk - for 50L [Dennis] |
http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL |
Long list of orgnisations - mostly academic - and instituti8ons in SL. [Dennis] | |
http://colanmc.siu.edu/virtualworlds/ | Articles |
CALICO - Collection of links and articles related to language teaching in virtual worlds |
Machinima |
Machimina wiki. Suggested by Dennis. Tks! (alicia) | |
Second Life Resources (free) | Resources | A collection of free resources for teachers. |
SL Blog - Tip of the week - Video | Tutorial | How to run multiple viewers at the same time and when you might want to do that. |
SL Literature Review | Research |
Engaging with SL - Real Life education in SL for adult learners (tertiary education) New Zealand |
Play Youtube videos in SL | Tutorial | To be able to play almost any video in SL from You Tube, Great resources for our teaching! (alicia) |
Virtual Worlds in Education | Bookmarks | Nick's del.icio.us bookmarks about Virtual Worlds in Education |
Virtual Worlds in Langguage Edu | Bookmarks | Nick's del.icio.us bookmarks about VW in Language Edu. |
Foreign Language Exchange in a VW | Paper | An intercultural task-based learning in event by Aaron Patrick Campbell, 2003 |
SLanguages Conference for Language Education in Virtual Worlds | Event | SLanguages is the conference for virtual world language education. It is held annually in Second Life. |
slanguages.wikispaces.com | Resource | SLanguages resources page (now as a wiki) - has videos and papers regarding virtual world language education. |
Pathfinder Linden wiki | Resource | Great Second LIfe LInks |
How to create comics in Second LIfe | Resource | How to introduce fun in Second LIfe. Good por communicative activities. Follow the links in the page |
SL Roundtable text chats | Chat Meetings | Useful chat meetings where different Educational topics are presented. Special Guests are also invited frequently.A site that's updated weekly.Meeting are at 2.30 pm every Tuesday. |
How can 3D Virtual Worlds Contribute to Language Learning | Paper | Paper presented at WorldCALL 2008 Conference, Japan (by Ton Koenraad) |
Teaching Languages in a Virtual World | Paper | This article explores the development of a course for teaching a language in a virtual world. In particular we evaluate the course entitled, “Social English for Doctoral Students” that is in progress in the fall semester of 2007. (J. Molka-Danielsen, M. Deutschmann, D. Richardson, B. Carter, Ph.D) |
Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life | Book | by J. Molka-Danielsen, M. Deutschmann: This book is based on the first Scandinavian project to experiment with the design and testing of teaching platforms for life long learning in SL |
Immersive Learning and Assessment with QuizHUD (side project of SLOODLE) | Paper |
Peter R. Bloomfield, Daniel Livingstone School of Computing University of the West of Scotland Paisley, Scotland |
Language learning through video games and virtual worlds | Joe Pereira's MA dissertion | |
Send your essay to my avatar: virtual worlds set to transform real learning | Article | In TES Connect, featuring Global Kids. "... if virtual worlds were good only for distance learning using the transmission model of education, innovative educators wouldn’t be as excited. Their real potential lies in interactive, collaborative, student- led models of learning." |
Applying 3D Worlds to Higher Education |
Paper/ dissertation |
Eero Palomäki's MA dissertation. Not specifically for language learning, but "Advantages of Using Virtual Worlds in Education" (p. 32) has good arguments. |
Evaluation of a Pilot Use of Second Life in an English Course 2006 - 2007 | Paper |
Tomoko Traphagan PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
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Interacting through avatars: Virtual worlds as a context for online education & The Business Talking Research Blog | Paper (PhD), reflective blog | This paper written by Alexandrea Petrakou (2010) is based on the observations and reflections of David Richardson from Kalmar University on his first Business English speaking course in SL. |
Implementation of a project-based 3D virtual learning environment for English language learning | by Xiaoluo Jiang; Chang Liu; Lizhi Chen; The 3D virtual world was built in OpenSim for students aged 10 - 20 for a private language school. The idea is similar to that of the "Spanish Village/Mi Casa es Su Casa" or "English City". | |
Developing Non-verbal Communication Standards in Virtual Worlds (in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research) | Paper | By Gustav Verhulsdonck, New Mexico State University, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, University of Southern California |
Blogs on teaching and learning languages in SL | Blog | SLExperiments member's blogs about teaching/learning languages ins SL |
Higher education in virtual worlds: Teaching and learning in Second Life | Book |
Edited by Charles Wankel & Jan Kingsley. (2009) "This book provides a wide range of valuable insights and suggestions for both novice and experienced users of new immersive environments." Robin Teigland |
Nergiz Kern on Teaching in Second life | Interview | English language teacher Nergiz Kern takes TEFL.net behind the scenes of her Second Life. (2009 |
An Interview with Second Life Guru Gavin Dudeney | Interview | Gavin Dudeney discusses virtual worlds for education and why he created EduNation in Second Life.(2009) |
Second Life – The Long Goodbye | Blog | Gaving Dudeney says goodbye to Second Life and explains his reasons. See also the comments. (2010) |
Learners' Experience of Presence in Virtual Worlds by Mark Childs | PhD Thesis | Summary: The first part of the research created a framework that enables the learners' experiences of mediated environments to be systematically described and evaluated.This was then used to structure the evaluation of case studies taking place in an immersive virtual world (in this case Second Life), specifically the role presence has in creating an effective learning experience and the factors that inform this. The conclusions were that presence is essential for effective participation in many learning activities, and can be further enhanced by learners developing a virtual identity and virtual body within these environments. |
Virtual world language learning | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia page on Virtual worlds and language teaching (March 2011 - constantly updated) |
SLOODLE (SL+MOODLE) case study | Case Study | Dubai-Korea Virtual Cultural Exchange - Using Sloodle to support learning and teaching (2008) |
A Practical Guide to using Second Life in Higher Education | Book |
by Maggi Savin-Baden (2010) UK: OUP "This practical handbook is a pedagogically-informed text that guides staff in the use of Second Life in the fields of further and higher education" "The book has been designed to support teachers who want to use Second Life" |
Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds | Book | by Peachey, Gillen, Livingstone & Smith-Robbins (Eds) (2010) UK:Springer |
Perceptions of Educators Regarding the MUVE | Masters Thesis | by Vimani Gamage (2010) |
Learning online with games, simulations, and virtual worlds : strategies for online instruction | Book |
by Aldrich, C (2009)
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Article |
by Miriam Clifford, Open Colleges, C (2012)
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Top 20 uses of Virtual Worlds in Education |
Article |
by Miriam Clifford, Open Colleges, C (2012)
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