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2nd Life for Language Practice
Like Facebook, 2nd Life (SL) is a social network that can provide students with online collaborative spaces for extra language practice outside the brick and mortar classroom. With the assistance of Deke Kassabian of ISC and designer Claudia Rossini, the Penn Language Center is building a virtual reality based on Williams Hall on Penn’s campus. [...]
Facebook for Language Practice
Like the social network 2nd Life, Facebook has gained in popularity not only among recreational users but also among educators and their students. Traditionally, members use Facebook to update personal profiles and notify their friends about each other. However, we now see Facebook being used in language classes to create communities of online learners who [...]
Blackboard’s Wiki
Blackboards’s Wiki
I have found that wikis can provide students and teachers with a number of ways to collaborate with each other on written documents. A wiki is frequently an article that has been created, edited and developed by several authors over an extended or limited period of time. One of the prime examples of [...]
