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The Archives
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03.27.08Forbes Reports on ESL LearningIt's nice to see a mainstream business outfit like Forbes - home of the annual Forbes 500, and a business person's bible - give some column inches (is that the term for it on the Web? Or should it be "scroll depth?") to SL education. This also shows that education in SL may actually be gaining some traction in the business establishment. A co-leader of a school in Germany has set up "Second Life English" and since February, the site has had upwards of 75 visitors per day. The island is an ESL resource center for both students and teachers. "The richness ...
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03.27.08College Prof Turns to SLYou're a post-secondary English prof, and your students are bored stiff with the same old 500-750 word essay assignments. Not to mention, you are bored stiff teaching composition to freshmen. You toss around new ideas: group collaborations? Re-workings of classics of literature? Field trips? What does one do? Well, an enterprising professor at Macon State College in Georgia has decided to add some zing to his first-year composition class by having students write for SL. According to Dr. Gerard Lucas, "Second Life alÂlows us to look at issues like identity, identity building, gender, sexuality and race. It brings all these ideas to ...
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