Update 28 Nov 2008

This page is one of the first and written in haste. We can re-write, add to and correct it together. The lesson plans that you can find when you follow the link below are not reall thought-through but my first ideas when I started thinking about teaching in SL. The only plans that I fully developed are those of the course.

In the Lesson Plan/Ideas folder (see link below) we will collect teaching ideas.

Create a new page for each idea.

• You can just give a short description of the idea or write the different stages of the lesson.
• To suggest improvements to the idea, leave comments.
• Whoever is interested can use the ideas for their classes, develop them to full lessons and even post their lesson plans to the wiki. 
• It would be nice to also leave some comments on how the idea/the lesson worked out.
• If you want to add a complete course, simply create a new folder in the Lesson Plan/Idea folder.

---> Remember to tag your pages

General Principles/Methodology/Techniques:

• Students seem to prefer open envirionments (beaches, rivers, parks) to closed ones (classrooms or even a café).
• Lessons should be communicative, interactive and engaging.
• Students should have some control and choice.
• Think also of self-access (e. g. touch various objects to see new phrases possibly with sound, links to e-books, or a class wiki or blog with resources (video, audio, voicethread etc.).
• Think of an alternative meeting point (virtual classroom) in case SL is down.
• Whenever possible, lessons should include Skills and Systems components.
• Most students in SL want to most practise their speaking skills. So, give them enough room to do this.
• Most people in SL are there to have fun. Lessons (even RL) shouldn't be too serious and certainly not lecture style.

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Link to the Lesson Plans/Ideas folder.

You can also find the link on the sidebar. 

Video tutorial: How to create a Lesson plan