Workshop on 3D at NIFLAR's dissemination conference in Coimbra

[Ton Koenraad]

The workshop at the Coimbra Conference on NIFLAR's 3D environments in Second Life and Open Sim was well attended. After a brief introduction about the design principles for the virtual environments to support language practice and intercultural communication skills development, participants were invited to explore the various regions available on the NIFLAR SIM themselves. Accounts and avatars had been created beforehand to have enough time for this hands-on session. It is always rewarding to see and hear the reactions of first time visitors to virtual worlds. Find the Presentation here.
One of the objects that was introduced was the Cartoon Puzzler, supporting an information-gap task, that is also part of the pilots with secondary pupils that we are running this week.

For more information on the development of the NIFLAR 3D environments consult this or this and this blogpost.

[Ton Koenraad]

3/11 Corrected the link to the presentation.