Welcome to vLanguages (virtual Languages)
If you are a language educator, a researcher or an author/ publisher interested in language teaching and learning in virtual worlds, you have come to the right place.
vLanguages is an international collaboration effort of universities, colleges, research institutes and language educators that are working together to define and develop freely available best practices, platform and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented reality, simulations and game-based language learning and training system.
You will find information on the following subjects:
I ) How to get started in Second Life
A collection of how-to-videos developed by Carol Rainbow for the CAMELOT project
How to create machinima
II) EduNation, a community of language educators in Second Life and its holodecks
III) EU funded projects
AVALON
CAMELOT
TILA
Euroversity
NEXT-TELL, Avatar, Talk-with-me and others
IV) Research organisations: CALICO, EUROCALL, TESOL's VWIS,
V) English Course in EdMondo and Methodology Course in EdMondo, a virtual world
run by INDIRE in Italy (OpenSim)
VI) Learn It Town, Virtlantis, Edutopia, and other language schools in virtual worlds
VII) SLanguages.org, Virtual Round Table: presentations by keynote speakers edited
short trailer videos to introduce people to their full presentation
VIII) EVO ViLLAGE / GUINEVERE - language learning games in virtual worlds
IX) Books about language learning in virtual worlds
Making and using Machinima in the language class room by Christel and Carol http://the-round.com/resource/making-and-using-machinima-in-the-language-classroom/
Virtual Worlds for Language Learning: From Theory to Practice (Telecollaboration in Education) by Randall Sadler
Global Simulations for Language practice in 3D virtual environments by Cyber Placebo ==>
X) Machinima productions by
Carol Rainbow
Christel Schneider
HazelDazel
Helena Galani
Heike Philp
Ann Nowak
XI) Ongoing projects, such as:
ReCALL Special issue on virtual worlds
Book on “Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions”
and other subjects.
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