About Second Life

According to Monday's class, I get to know better about Second Life in the field of education. Originally, I thought SL was a common 3D game eventhough is very interesting. After experiencing in the field of visual education in SL, I aware that SL is benefitial to English Education.Especially in practicing written English and listening English . One thing in SL really shocking me is that teacher can establish a visual and mock classroom in SL. Students also creat SL accounts and attend the analogous class in SL where teachers can teach students . Another point I really appreciate is that teachers can communicate with students as well as prompt students to practice English through SL. I determine to keep exploring this game in this semester and I hope I can relate my future teaching with SL in more broader ways.

Reflection on Week 3 reading

According to Week 3 reading, I think it is really practical to me. Take an general view on week 3 reading about Internet for English Teaching, it describes about learning goals,teaching guardlines,planning tips and sample web projects of Internet for English Teaching. Among these several parts, sample web projects is adoptable to my English teaching in the future. University-level content-based course is argued to be useful in our discusion group, which I think it's not only applicable to my current study, but also has long-term effect on my future teaching. Learning from this issue, it emphasizes students' on-line readings first. Later, students are taught to search information on line, send e-mails, communicate in this discussion lists and construct a Web pages. Finally, they are required to carry out cultural project that they should search information about different countries' holidays and do the project. Also, the assessment types in this course are diverse, which are multi-functional to all English learners in this course. In general, this teaching project has far-reaching effect on my teaching.