Linda Jacoby's presentation was great! It was informative, interesting, paced, useful, clear, complete ... I learned that there is more about Social Networking than Facebook. I think I will not try to use it in class in a billion years, but also that professionals should not be that cautious about it, as Linda said you decide what you put on the web, and after it is there, there remains.
And Second life sounds like a video game to me, lots of time and energy are required, as well as some ability ... and I don't see myself using it in the near future, it is just time consuming. I may look around the page and if possible check a tutorial (a popular word in this class), but that is all. I have already created an avatar using other web page, so there is no much curiosity left.
When I was teaching adults in Colombia I was part of a project that was exactly about Social networking. We used Yahoo 360 and teachers and students were in touch through it. We taught students how to open e-mail accounts in English, build their avatars, make postings, use feeds and link their classwork to their site. I think it worked great, it was safe, educational and focused (students were not there to meet other people).
The picture you see is the avatar I created long time ago. I chose to represent myself exactly the way I am, and I think I did it. It was fun to change my outfit and background according to the season, and obviously to be able to include my country in it with its flag. If you were to create an avatar, or already had, would you represent yourself the way you are in this one life?
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Diana, what's your avatar's name???;)
I have also created an avatar, and so has Inna. Yesterday we "met" in Second Life - that was.. weird;) and we chatted. Since we do not know much about it yet, we were basically playing around with the appearance of avatars and just checking out some places. Still, it was fun;)But again, I'm not sure of the TESL application of second life; it seems so have TONS of benefits, but at the same time, TONS of disadvantages. Quite controversial
Hi the second Diana. Does it really look like you? I think your avatar looks from East Asia, most probably Japan... hahaha
Anyway, I also doubt the possibility of the use of Second Life for language teaching. I do not see the advantage. Well, I assume there are many advantage, but my concern is if it is BETTER.
Agree with everything mentioned before. Second life also looks as video game to me. I cannot imagine how to use it in teaching.
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