Week 5 - Do It Yourself! Workshops
There is a lot packed into this week and the Optional Readings /Viewings list is long. See this positively as a richness and not a threat!
Overview
Participation in teaching - participants will be encouraged to put their knowledge into practice and arrange to teach each other in 15 minute slots
Learning outcomes
By the end of this week, you should have done some of the following:
- have joined a group in our Ning in a time slot that suits you best for a synchronous meeting.
- have participated in an example teaching session/lesson, and reflected on this session in a blog post in the TLVW Ning.
- have participated in one of Wlodek's Barbosa's workshops on Phonetically Augmented Virtuality, and reflected on it in a blog post in the TLVW Ning.
- have prepared and taught a mini language lesson for your peers, received and given feedback on these lessons.
- have posted snapshots of your mini lesson to flickr.
- have reflected on your teaching in your blog in the TLVW Ning.
- have participated in the discussion about Virtual Worlds vs Other Methods of E-Learning
- have participated in the discussion about Real Life vs Second Life language learning and teaching
Useful SL skills
Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.
Activities
- Join the Ning group for the time slot that suits you best.
- Participate in the AVALON project Business English teaching session. (Details of place and time to be posted later in 'Events').
- Participate in one of the Spanish lessons by Dafne González in LanguageLab. (Details of place and time will be posted later in 'Events').
- Attend a demonstration of Holodecks and how they can be used in language teaching and learning. (Details of place and time will be posted later in 'Events').
- Participate in a workshop on how to use the Builder's Buddy, a way of creating holodeck-like scenes for use in teaching
- Participate in one of Wlodek's Barbosa's workshops on Phonetically Augmented Virtuality*
- Attend Carol Rainbow's workshop on sound. (Times and place to be announced later in 'Events').
- Prepare a mini language lesson (max 15 min). Think about what you learned about different methods, places and tools and how they were used by other teachers to help plan your session. Think about the rationale of choosing particular activities, tools, etc. in SL and the pedagogical, language aims of your lesson.
- Meet with the participants in your group in-world and teach each other and give each other feedback. You need not necessarily teach EFL. You can teach any foreign language of your choice. For participants that could prove to be a novel experience and something worth reflecting on.
- Don't forget to take pictures during these sessions (you will be busy teaching so ask someone else from the group to take pictures of your session and help other's when it is their turn). Upload the pictures to flickr, tag them with "TLVW10" and add them to our group pool
- Reflect on your teaching in your personal blog in Ning or elsewhere (provide a link if you write on a different blog and tag it with tlvw10). You can embed pictures of your session in this blog post.
- Participate in the discussion about Virtual Worlds vs Other Methods of E-Learning and the discussion about Real Life vs Second Life language learning and teaching.
Resources
- http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/Lesson-ideas
- http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/Lesson-Plan-Template
- http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/Holodecks-in-Language-Classes
- http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/SL-Free-Objects
- Teaching EFL/ESL in Second Life
- Nergiz's detailed lesson plans, pre- and post-lesson reflections, snapshots and student feedback for her first course in SL in 2008.
- Starting a Second Life (ETp journal article)
- Barbara Sakamoto's first teaching experience in SL and more.
- Wlodek Barbosa's first teaching experience in SL
- Scottlo's first teaching experience in SL here and here.
Optional Readings/Viewings
- Dennis Newson's Pecha Kucha presentation
- Wlodek Sobkowiak's Pecha Kucha presentation
- How to send and create a notecard
- Notecard attachments
- How to set up a Notecard Giver
- Fun with Floating Texts
- Educator´s Toolbox: Giving inventory Script
- Educator´s Toolbox: NoteCard Reader
- Educator´s Toolbox: PPT Viewer
- Using Holodecks and Builder's Buddy
- Create a PowerPoint Presentation for Second Life
- More ideas about giving a PowerPoint Presentation in Second Life. Part 1 and Part 2.
- How to use and edit the SpeakEasy Hud
- How to send a postcard by Torley
- Nik Peachy's Links and Opinion on Learning, Technology, Web 2.0 and EFL, ESL: http://quickshout.blogspot.com
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