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The second article about teaching English in Second Life has been published in the November issue of English Teaching Professional. This article focuses more on SurReal Quests as a methodology that takes advantage of Second Life as a social and communicative environment.

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The Knowledge Tree has published an article of mine in their most recent edition.  The article can also be listened to as a podcast via their website.

Dennis Newson has recorded a very interesting podcast of himself and Gavin Dudeney (The Consultants-e) discussing the opportunities for using Second Life in language learning.

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Televisión Española ha transmitido recientemente un reportaje sobre el mundo virtual Second Life, que se puede ver en la pantalla de más abajo. Probablemente, lo más interesante del programa es que aunque informa que hay empresas que no quieren seguir con sus campañas de mercadeo en Second Life, el mundo virtual parece muy adecuado para la educación a distancia. Por lo tanto, considero que merece la pena ver el corto reportaje a continuación, para aprender un poco más sobre las oportunidades que Second Life ofrece para la educación a distancia.

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EUROCALL
For those of us who missed the EUROCALL conference in Ireland and online last month, we can catch up with recordings of the presentations that are located on the University of Ulster website. I have just watched an especially engaging talk by Bernd Rüschoff about the use of web 2.0 in language learning.

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