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Что такое Second Life? Смотрите видео!

Second Life Is Life from Robert Zorin on Vimeo.

I’ve created a Slidecast (Slideshare with audio) presentation of the language school. It’s on the website now and can be found on the Video and Images page. I have also embedded it here…

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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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The Webheads meetings continued this last Monday, when we visited another real life location in Second Life – this time the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi. The Second Life model can be found on the San Francesco Assisi island and more information on its own website: SecundaVita.com. It is an amazing place that has extraordinary detail both inside and out.

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Join us in celebrating European Day of Languages. We are organizing a treasure hunt with free language lessons to be won. (more…)

The PR / Communications firm DRAFTFCB has put together a short movie called “Second Life in Real Life”. Not only is it amusing for those of us who have spent some time in Second Life, but I think it also raises some interesting issues for SL (language) educators. (more…)

Yesterday I attended the second Webheads tour of European cities that have a presence (3D model) in Second Life (unfortunately I missed the first one last week). The tour was led by Graham Stanley, who has also blogged about these tours. We visited Second Life Barcelona and Second Life Liverpool. We visited Second Life Barcelona and Second Life Liverpool. Barcelona’s Plaza Real (Plaça Reial in Catalan) and Las Ramblas have been recreated within Second Life, with some adaptations to try and recreate the social atmosphere that the Plaça Reial has in real life (such as a café and a dance floor). Second Life Liverpool has plenty of Beatles themed places, including the Cavern Club.

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