Explaining how the novela began. Learning German in Second Life.

Before Gwen created the present blog I had started one on Wordpress to record my personal record of the lessons I attended and my reflections on what I had experienced. Below I have copied that Wordpress blog (original now deleted) and integrated it with this one.

I’m thoroughly convinced that Second Language offers exciting possibilities for learning and teaching foreign languages, but although I spend a lot of time in SL discussing such matters, I have not observed or taught as many lessons inworld as I would like.

I was therefore quick to take up the chance to enroll for a course just started by Heike (SL: Gwen) which developed out of an EEC project. In this course Heike is trying out a new approach – learning German by collaborating in the writing of the script for a novella, an electronic soap opera. In other words the scripts, the texts will be produced by the learners.