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English Teaching Professional: Second Life, podcasts and wikis

Posted by Tom Roper on September 3, 2007

The new issue of English Teaching Professional has articles on using Second Life in teaching by Howard Vickers of Avatar Languages, on podcasting by Peter Travis of Splendid Speaking, which lists some useful EFL podcast sites, such as http://a4esl.org and http://www.englishcaster.com and Russell Stannard on wikis. For the last article, Russell has cerated a reader’s wiki (registration with PBwiki required) and provided some training videos at: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/.

2 Responses to “English Teaching Professional: Second Life, podcasts and wikis”

  1. [...] Last week saw the publishing of an article I wrote about the opportunities Second Life offers for teaching English. The article appeared in “English Teaching Professional“. There are some other education 2.0 topics also covered in the same issue, such as teaching with podcasts and wikis, as is blogged about by Language Learning Resources. [...]

  2. modame said

    I’ve written somehow related posts on my blog.
    It’s been said one-in-three Japanese are interested in learning English in Metaverse such as Second Life.

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