One of our language instructors, Carolina Pererra, has been meeting with her Spanish students in Second Life. This semester her students were able to create machinima involving a Spanish Plaza and coffee shop for a class project.Students come in as avatars and, using voice chat, practice Spanish with each other in an informal setting. Avatars can stroll around the beautiful fountain at the center of the plaza and sit down to drink coffee and eat tapas either outside or inside the coffee shop. Lively Salsa music plays in the background and you can even dance with other avatars in front of the stage in the Café. In the near future I hope to share the student projects here.
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