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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:57:27 -0700
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #8536.7 Second Life
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Barbara, I also forgot to mention the 1st Annual Second Life Best Practices in
Education conference that (unfortunatley) is taking place righ tin the middle of
CALICO (May 25th): http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/
LeeAnn
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> --- Forwarded Message from "Douglas W. Canfield" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 21:19:33 -0400
> >Subject: Re: #8536 Second Life
> >From: "Douglas W. Canfield" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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> >Thread-Topic: #8536 Second Life
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> Vivox is one option for SL voice chat. Three other popular in-world options
> are Second Talk (www.secondtalk.com), a Skype-based tool, Ventrillo
> (www.ventrillo.com) and TeamSpeak (www.goteamspeak.com). Of course, Second
> Life will soon have integrated voice chat...there is a beta trial out now,
> and it will hopefully be available by the time we all meet @ IALLT in
> Boston. Anyone with the new seamless feature enabled will be able to hear
> voice conversations in their immediate proximity, conduct personal voice
> chat, or group voice chat.
>
> Brenda, you can contact me off-list if you can't wait to get started, but I
> can tell you that based on what we have been doing on an ad-hoc basis in
> French and Spanish courses @ UT, our university is seriously considering a
> major investment of land and infrastructure to support things that we want
> to do but need these resources to pull off. It will be nice to have that,
> but you definitely do not need to make these kind of investments to have SL
> enhance your courses.
>
> I also suggest listening in to Barbara's podcast on Thursday or coming to
> IALLT in Boston...there are several sessions dealing with several aspects of
> SL and other virtual environments/games.
>
> DOUG
>
>
> On 5/9/07 2:59 PM, "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > --- Forwarded Message from Brenda Bertrand <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:21:26 +0000 (GMT)
> >> From: Brenda Bertrand <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: Second Life
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Has anyone joined the Second Life Campus? Apparently, you can do live voice
> > chatting with Vivox. There are also many regional areas (Japanese, Italian,
> > Spanish, French) where students can interact with native speakers. I'm
> > looking into it, but would love some feedback if anyone else has tried this.
> > I'm still not convinced that the pedagogical benefits are worth the cost
> > and the training that would go into this kind of venture.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any comments on this.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Brenda Bertrand
> > Director, Foreign Language Learning Center
> > Wittenberg University
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