Giuliana Perco

Reports from my experience in using Second Life in my course of intermediate Italian taught in Spring 2009 thanks to a “Jump Start” project grant by the CIT (Center for Instructional Technology) at Duke University. “Thank you” so much to Samantha and Amy for all your help!

IT63.01 Spring 2009

* A new semester begins

TASKS assigned to students

* In-world task #1

* In-world task #2

* In-world tasks #3 & #4

* In-world task # 5

* In-world presentations

CLASSES held in Second Life

* In-world class (preparing for the oral exam)

My students and I at my plot on Virtlantis, preparing for the oral exam.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been hovering over them, though……mmmmmmm

* Virtual tourism: visit to the Codice Atlantico exhibit and to San Francesco’s Basilica

* Virtual tourism: Sistine Chapel, Venice, and OIPA

* Virtual tourism: Immersive literature

Julie Perco