Second Life webpage

here is where you sign up to get your name and avatar

http://secondlife.com

 

 

Articles on Educational Uses of Second Life

 

Wikipedia has more information than you’ll want to know - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

 

Ruberg, Bonnie. Using 'Second Life' to Learn a Second Language

http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6662968

 

Stevens, V. Second Life in Education and Language Learning

http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej39/int.html

 

Many articles, publications, and videos on languge learning in SL and other educational uses of SL

http://www.slanguages.net/publications.php

 

Stevens, Vance. (March, 2008). Second Life: Second Chance for Second Language Learning.

http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com/

Versions of an article with photos and links. Look for Marlene (long green hair) in the last photo on the page

 

Sulčič, Alja. (2007). An Introduction to Virtual Worlds: Second Life and Beyond

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

 

 

Educational sites to see in SL

 

Educational information and places to see:

http://sl4calico.pbwiki.com/Overview+of+Educational+Resources

See also the Scavenger Hunt and Sample Teaching Activities on this wiki

 

Lots of links to articles on SL and education – note large section of places that speak other languages

http://edumuve.com/tour/

 

Another list of sights to see for educators

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson020.shtml

 

 

Language-specific sites to see in SL

 

Avatar English

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/09/28/avatar-english-language-classes-in-sl/

 

Chinese School - based on virtual questing as a curriculum model -

http://confucius.msu.edu/secondlife/default.html

The Chinese School­-3i Life is a Chinese town. There are many places Chinese language learners can explore  in the town, such as classroom, bank, restaurants, and Chinese-style garden. Chinese language learners can practice Chinese in different social contexts. Moreover, there are also some interesting language tools in the school. One is in the Chinese classroom  named Chinese word games. It is a game for Chinese language learners to learn Chinese words by mapping Chinese characters and English meanings. Other language learning tools include picture post and power point. Basically, the Chinese school provides a virtual Chinese world with social and language contexts.  Chinese School in SL is here

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lenovo/222/8/42

 

Islamic sim. A microcontinent of 2 sims in Al Andalus Alhambra and it's neighbour Al Andalus Generallife.

 

Virtual Morocco

http://sl.nmc.org/2006/12/14/immersion-in-virtual-morocco/

 

Neufreistadt

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Neufreistadt/128/128/0

 

Colonia Nova

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Colonia%20Nova/128/128/0

 

German Language Apartment at Glidden Campus

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Glidden/196/178/564/

 

What other SL sites can you add that you've visited? 

Tell us about what is there, what you found interesting, what you would use for teaching...