2013 EDU: EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education

Edunation: Virtual Worlds for language education
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• Aggregator of language instruction
• Virtual worlds: The rise of the aggregators

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/118/130/23

• Main EduNation website
• EduNation's Story
• SLanguages 2012
• New EU funded project CAMELOT
• Contact Gwen Gwasi

Virtual Worlds like Second Life for:

• Virtual World Telecollaboration 
• Educational Simulations 
• Virtual Classrooms 
• Class Exchanges 

• Annual rental costs: 
• Basic: 1280 square meter plot  250 prims  US$180 
• Premium: 1280 square meter plot  500 prims US$300 
• Details

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Public areas

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Residents

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More Residents

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Thanks to Heike Philp for most of the information below.   
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Resources for educators
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Educational resources Center

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/177/180/22

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Tech Help.   for residents and for visiting lecturers who want  to introduce their students to SL. Edunation staff provides help with:

• equipment 
• meeting preparations
• presentations
• handling large groups

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Situated learning 

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Custom built housing available for fast and easy set-up of offices or training centers (20 plots)

• Educational Resources Center
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/139/169/21

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Holodecks

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/143/173/21

On EduNation the holodecks hold scenes for language learners and teachers bring groups of students to EduNation to practice language in these settings. These scenarios include 

• a library
• a bus stop
• a restaurant
• a shop for clothes
• forest seating
• a castle 
• many other settings

Some 100 of these holodeck scenes have been produced by Dr. Randall Sadler, co-owner of EduNation islands. For more detail about the holodecks, see this page: Services for language educators

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Related

Land in SL costs much less if you time-share. The rez-to-use model.

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Virtlantis

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/223/60/23
• Virtlantis

Virtlantis has a free language learning island and we appreciate their efforts to provide a platform where language teachers can practice to teach in virtual worlds. They are a resident and they offer some of their courses on EduNation.

Recreation 

Rezzers provide the equipment

Boats, floats, and Jet skis

Can you talk about these in another language?

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/168/145/22

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Future
Over a period of 2 years under the leadership of Dr. Michael Thomas of the University of Central Lancashire a total of 9 project partners, of which are 4 universities, will create machinima and a teacher training course for language teachers on how to create machinima and how to use machinima in class. 
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Today we have been thinking of adding a new island to the north of EduNation just for video work. 
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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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