Giuliana Perco This post is not about my students, at least, not directly. It’s about me and my first RL conference presentation about my work in SL. But first a short preamble….. My students’ presentations were their last “in-world” task; after all, we only had two days of class left at that point. They still [...]

Giuliana Perco Class presentations are a crucial part of any language course, since they offer the students the opportunity to present a topic that interests them and to do so by using the foreign language that they are studying.  Very often, such presentations take the form of Powerpoint slide-shows about some cultural aspect of the [...]

Short (and sad) update: Today, Monday September 7th, while preparing for an intro workshop on SL for my new students, I discovered that several of the sims and/or lands that I had used during the past two semesters for my classes do not exist any longer. In January I was already distressed by the disappearance [...]