Edunation: Virtual Worlds for language education
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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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Tech Help. for residents and for visiting lecturers who want to introduce their students to SL. Edunation staff provides help with:
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Custom built housing available for fast and easy set-up of offices or training centers (20 plots)
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
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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 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
Public areas
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Residents
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More Residents
-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
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
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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FutureOver 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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- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
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- Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans
Hi Selby/ Thinkerer, Thank you sooo much for this informative blog post on EduNation. Very, very well done! I will gladly distribute your notecard in our EduNation group (s).
ReplyDeleteThank you very much indeed for your thorough journalistic work.
rgds Heike aka Gwen
May I create a track back link to another blog post about EduNation. http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/if-you-build-it-they-will-come
ReplyDeleteAnyone is welcome to add any relevant links to any of my posts. My objective is to disseminate information. Links do that.
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