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Language Schools using Second Life and other Virtual Worlds

From Colombia

I have been working over the last few months on designing a Business English course for a virtual school called languagelab.com that has an island in Second Life

What is VUVOX & what does it do? Your Visual Voice: As a workflow and easy to use online service, VUVOX can enable you create personal, collaborative & emotive expressions using your own digital media - including video, photos, music and text. VUVOX reflects your life. Publish your creations to your own website, blog or MySpace page.

Cutting Edge Elementary will help you to learn English. It is for students with a little bit of English. It will help you with:\n\nGrammar\nVocabulary\nReading and Listening\nSpeaking\nWriting\nReal life situations

Cultural and language resources for MANY different languages. Includes videos on many areas of daily life from many different countries.

Stories from an American Life

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn. About Deb Roy Deb Roy studies how children learn language, and designs machines that learn to communicate in human-like ways. On sabbatical from MIT Media Lab, he's working with the AI company Bluefin Labs"

Wiki with resources for language teachers interested in teaching in Second Life.