Monday, September 30, 2013

My second life's second blog


My second blog experience on languagelab.com web search, these virtual learning courses are just like learning in the classroom. Is this excellent and effective place to meet a lot of new people who are from all over the world which in real life we would not have had this great opportunity. Learning an online course obviously is much more fun than sitting in boring everyday classroom environment as the assessment from teachers are in real time study, students can be responded on their homework effort straightaway, exchange ideas with many avatars at once unlike classroom interaction where we cannot talk while professor are lecturing in front of the class. This online virtual learning course offer International languages such as French, Chinese or Spanish as well as the Aviation course who want to be pilots or traffic controller.  My finding from langugelab.com based on students feedback, they all said that their English skills have improved a lot compared to three-four years ago and they could learn more about other avatars cultures. I contacted the staff on languagelab as I want to find out how much does it cost to be part of this virtual learning journey and also if I could visit their landmarks in order to write my experiences further. 


MY FIRST blog’s experience on Second Life



On my first experience on second life on my own, I decided to choose to teleport on EduNation as Professor recommended as well as ‘Virtlantis’, CALICO and EUROCALL landmarks. I added those people who were in charge of these language learning resources landmarks in order to be able to teleport and find out resources. On my first landmark EduNation, my goal was to find something to give me an idea on what I can use to teach ESL students. I walked around and found posters which I could and could not click on, some of them I would need to buy but sometime the price was too expensive and it wouldn’t let me buying it and some posters asked me to keep or dismiss the information as well as the coffee machine where I could buy for example, Espresso or Chocolate drink. I supposed there might be more hidden language resources but I did not seem to be able to find those out but I will ask Avatars when I see them around next time when I teleport back and I will also ask professor Corrigan to give me advice.  In my conclusion on my own tour on Second life, I discovered that this location can suit my ESL learners when they need to study individually, in a group or even a place to meet new avatars students/ or other avatars with other occupations. In addition, I could not hear any party music even outside the house, everywhere on the beach have seats but no one was dancing or playing loud music.