Shiv on Learning

Social Relationships in English City - Jessica Driscoll [ Jessica Teacher ]
How do The English City People characters in English City provide particular areas of language input for students? How have these relationships between students and the ‘characters’ facilitated interesting cases of language in context.

The Ubiquitous classroom - Shiv Rajendran [ Kingsbury Yeats ]
How to leverage Second Life and other social media to immerse your students in Language.

She’s not a real avatar? Learning without teachers in virtual reality - Sally Langer [ Salsita Almendros ]
This seminar will look at the informal learning program inside Languagelab’s English City, in particular - the rationale behind creating a group of characters to populate the city and interact with learners-the evolution of this program from a functional basis to character & plot driven scenarios to the addition of non teacher delivered tasks & activities -What are the key success factors in this system and how can it draw the sting from loneliness some of the negatives of real immersion (loneliness, isolation) while providing many of its benefits?-To what extent is the program’s success a function of the activity program directly? To what extent does success stem from the ability to enable greater self confidence, community and relationship building among students?

Learning Spanish: A Demo Class - Dafne González/Cristina Palomeque [ Daf Smirnov/Cristina Papp ]
In order to show how Spanish is being taught in Languagelab.com, the presenters will invite the audience to participate in a team-taught Spanish class. Then there will be time for questions and answers regarding the different aspects of the class.

The Classroom is Dead - Long Live the ClassroomPaul Sweeney [ Head Teacher ]
Given the potential for self directed language learning in a muve, what is the role of the classroom? This talk, illustrated by several years of experience in Languagelab, will look at:-the value of recreating the ‘traditional’ classroom in a muve
- different phases of ‘classroom deconstruction’ over 18 months in Languagelab
- the role of the teacher / guide / instructor / facilitator in supporting semi-formal and informal learning in muves
- how student expectations of the above role can change according to what other learning activities they are participating in. -guidelines for good practice