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Week 7: Assignment 2

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Second Life Activities

  • Teaching students to visit the library and how to utilize the library.
  • Showing students how to conduct research on literature for essays. 
  • Intimate class discussions.
  • Video conferencing for discussion on a literary piece or for additional assistance on work.
  • Practicing with vocabulary words thorough exercises that explores words using audio such as homophones with sentences.

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  1. AnonymousOctober 24, 2017 at 8:46 PM

    I think practicing with vocabulary words through the exercises is a great activity that will help students with sentence building.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 26, 2017 at 7:35 AM

    Hello Zulayka, I thought you had great ideas about incorporating second life into the classroom. I also thought the video conference for discussions on a literary piece was a great idea to get Second Life into the classroom.

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