2022 Metaverse for languages: Chatterdale Mystery: A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language. And a mystery to solve.

Metaverse for languages:  

Chatterdale Mystery: 

 A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language.  

And a mystery to solve.

A virtual world is a natural for learning a new language.  Everything about the place can be in the target language

• Watch on YouTube
• Chatterdale Mystery (Virtual language village in OpenSim)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8Prip1Vpk

• Chatterdale Mystery is a quest in Chatterdale, the first virtual language village on OpenSim.
• The village is built by 3DLES.
• 3DLES online office.

2022 The language metaverse. Teach languages with native speakers. Teach directly naming objects in their natural scene.

The language metaverse.  

Teach languages with native speakers.  

Teach directly naming objects in their natural scene.  

The metaverse can provide an immersive environment for teaching languages.

• Watch on YouTube
•  Language Teaching in Kitely--Edutopia 1

This video compares virtual worlds that can be used for educational purposes.

 It highlights Edutopia 1 in Kitely; and in doing so, it shows the incredibly wide range of cheap or free items available to teachers and all the games and exercises I have personally created and put on the Kitely Marketplace to teach English the way I think it should be taught in virtual worlds.

2020 #VWEDU: Metaverse for immersive language learning. Role play in virtual worlds.

Metaverse for immersive language learning.  

Role play in virtual worlds.  

Language is a social skill.  Learning it takes a social environment. But that does not mean you have to pay people to provide it. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Non Player Characters in 3DLES OpenSim
• Education in Virtual Worlds (English)
• 25 ESL Roleplay Ideas for the Classroom
  

• Immersive learning (Wikipedia)
• Experiential learning  (Wikipedia)
• Didactic learning (Wikipedia)
• Communicative language teaching (CLT)  (Wikipedia)
• Related articles after the break

2022 The metaverse: English as a second language. After you finish formal lessons you want practice. Find people you can talk to in Second life.

The metaverse: English as a second language.  

After you finish formal lessons you want practice.

Find people you can talk to in Second life.

You want to practice conversations in English?  Meet people in Second Life.  They will talk with you if you stick to subjects they are interested in

• Watch on YouTube
• Tour of Learn It Town ESL Academy

Practice

• Lots of courses can get you started in English as a second language. 
• But where do you go from there? 
• You need to keep practicing to further develop your skills.  
• But how do you find English speakers where you live?
• Try the metaverse.  The language is mostly English.
• And you can find lots of people there if you know how to look.
• Metaverse groups: Find people that share your interests. Join the groups and learn of the events. Here are some groups for Second Life.
• People will want to talk to you about their interests.
• So you need to join groups that share some on your interests.
• And you may have to go to meetings in the middle of your night.
• But during the day in Europe and the Americas there are about 45.000 people online. 

2012 Digital Badge Program to Recognize Language Proficiency. The badges are coming.

Digital Badge Program 

to Recognize Language Proficiency

The badges are coming.

Badges can replace academic degrees and target specific job description needs.

ACTFL and Language Testing International (LTI), the exclusive provider of ACTFL assessments, are pleased to announce a new digital badging program through Credly. Digital badges are now issued to students in higher education institutions and adults completing an official ACTFL proficiency assessment, and may include the associated ACE CREDIT recommendations for the ACTFL assessment taken. These badges will recognize the effort involved in learning a language and provide evidence of an indispensable, validated skill.

• Read more
• Articles about Digital Badges in this blog (below);

2021 #VWEDU: Monash University Virtually Enhanced Learning (VEL) Programme Task-based language, culture learning

Monash University Virtually Enhanced Learning (VEL) Programme  

Task-based language  culture learning

A brief introduction to the use of virtual worlds for task-based language and culture learning at Monash and the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded Virtually Enhanced Languages project.

• Watch on YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0EX--dqZA&feature=emb_logo

VEL

• Monash University Virtually Enhanced Learning (VEL) Programme
• VEL Home

The Virtually Enhanced Languages Project aims to promote the use of task-based language learning in combination with a 3D multiuser virtual environment to supplement and enhance the learning of Chinese language and culture. Funded by the Australian Federal Government Office for Learning and Teaching, the project builds on eight years of practical experience at tertiary introductory level implementing a range of authentic scenarios that simulate real-life tasks and facilitate purposeful communication and feedback. 

The project website (www.virtuallyenhancedlanguges.com) provides a full range of ready-made shareable resources that any interested educator can download for free to try out for themselves or with their students. 

For general enquiries and technical assistance please feel free to contact Scott Grant in the Chinese Studies program at Monash University (scott.grant AT monash.edu). 

2020 #VWEDU: Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life language-learning project. Narrative-based learning (PBL) for languages. Pionia Destiny presents.

Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life 

language-learning project.  

Narrative-based learning for languages

Narrative-based (project-based) learning of a second language. Following narration concentrates attention on the language.  And a project can exercise the production of that language.   Virtual scenes related to the story can provide and environment for developing the story. 

• Watch on YouTube

The terms

• Transmedia storytelling
• PBL = project-based learning
• Narrative-based

The instruction

• Virtually Anywhere is a trans-media experience for language learning. 
• Students collaborate in the creation of a new fiction based on an existing series. 
• The story line is from the audio series by Cambridge Assessment English. 
• The series is about students struggling with coursework.
• A mentor appears and takes them on travels to virtual scenes.
• The virtual scenes fit with the narrative.  
• The narration is entirely in the target language. 
• The project is to write new episodes in the target language.
• The virtual scenes provide an environment for the new episodes.  

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2020 #VWEDU Immersive language learning and: Why would you do a presentation this way? Use the powers of the Digitals.

Immersive language learning and: 

Why would you do a presentation this way?  

Use the powers of the Digitals.

We digitals have a new set of powers in the digital worlds.  We don't have to do things the old way.  We can do things in ways that are more productive in fitting our objectives.

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• Watch on YouTube

Speakers

• Heike Philp / Gwen Gwasi; 
• Jennifer Hamilton / Jaz Beverly; 
• Annalisa di Pierro /Innesfree;
• Helena Galani /erlinaazure 

Problems

• The presentation is 50 minutes long.  Few people will spend that long on a video.
• The audio is not of good quality.  
• Using the powers of the digitals on these problems.
• One power of the digitals is search on page.

• Update 10/8/2020 OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. Empire State College (ESC) virtual residency Oct 10 in Kitely. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: LANG: Virtual worlds for learning language. Immersive learning does not have to be expensive. Summary

Virtual worlds for learning language.  
Immersive learning does not have to be expensive.
Summary

A collection of articles about language learning in virtual worlds.  These worlds cost little and are accessible around the world.  They can offer a massive opportunity For low-cost learning of a second (or more) language.    

Welcome to practice in 

English as a Foreign Language

Immersive language learning

• Scholarly articles for immersive language learning
• Language immersion (Wikipedia)
• Digital worlds cost little. Can they be immersive?

After the break

• Language games
• Digital Teaching Assistant
• Situated learning
• Web-worlds
• International meetings
• Therapy
• Places teaching a language in Kitely

• VWBPE Immersive events continue Want To Teach ESL Online? A Dimension Beyond Offers Free online Meeting Rooms.

2020 #VWEDU: LANG: OSCC19 GUINEVERE - LEARN A LANGUAGE THROUGH GAMES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

OSCC19 GUINEVERE - 
LEARN A LANGUAGE THROUGH GAMES 
IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

Final project results on project GUINEVERE (Games Used IN Engaging Virtual Environments for Real-time language Education) are reported.

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• Guinevere deliverables

The 2 year EU funded project GUINEVERE has come to a close and the final project results are being presented. There are quite a few deliverables in the form of studies on the theory of game design/ gamification and best practice guidelines for teachers.  

The GUINEVERE server in OpenSim has been the sandbox for the teacher training and several games have been created which are stunning in variety and building and scripting skills. A mobile app has been developed to use imagery from virtual worlds to create interactive stories by language teachers. 

GUINEVERE stands for “Games Used IN Engaging Virtual Environments for Real-time language Education.” The project is coordinated by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK together with the University of Istanbul in Turkey, let’s talk online in Belgium, 3DLS in the Netherlands and Italian University Line in Italy.

• update 3/13/2020 VWBPE 13th Annual Conference, March 26-28 2020 VWBPE Immersive events start March 15 IMA SceneGate Viewer Release 1.0.0 for Linux and Windows.

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA Language learning in virtual worlds. What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do

Language learning in virtual worlds.  
What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do

The best place to learn a language is where everybody speaks it.  There even the little kids speak it.  A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) can help.    This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

 You need to know the names
in the target language

• Language learning draws on two of the major affordances of virtual worlds:
• Situated learning and social learning.
• A place in a virtual world can be built specifically for learning a language.
• And it can hold people and objects speaking that language.
• It can be set up for immersive language learning.
• With objects that show and speak their names their names in the language.
• And with games that demand use of that language.
• Virtual world language learning - Wikipedia
• Language acquisition in Second Life: Improving self- efficacy beliefs

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2019 EDU: Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?

Language learning: 
What could a virtual (online) campus offer? 

A school has special advantages for teaching its native language to people who want to learn that language. The old disadvantage used to be that people could only attend that school after expensive travel. Travel on the internet is free and fast.

Universal campus (Kitely)

• A German university would choose its own campus view.
• As would any university anywhere.

Native speakers

• The virtual campus could be provided by a school with the target language.
• If you want to learn German, you could learn it at a German university.
• Talk with German instructors. Socialize with German students.
• Low cost plan: "Study in Germany, live at home"

Contents

• "Local" sights and people
• Viewpoint of the school
• Immersive language learning
• Situated learning
• Social learning (All language is social.)
• Marketing
• First mover advantage
• What is an virtual campus?
• Who can supply a virtual campus?
• Articles in this blog about language learning
• Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
• Search this page:  Ctrl+f opens search bar near the top

• #VWEDU update 6/13/2019 Writers on the MUVEs, Teams for education