Virtual Worlds (VLEAF / SL) applied learning in secondary
Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 11:24
Date
21/05/2010
Lecturer
María José Lasala Bello (IES Ernest Lluch i Marti Cunit, Tarragona)
Summary
The Reception Hall is a meeting place for first contact of newly arrived students from other linguistic and cultural fields to a Catalan school. This is a temporary action (from a quarter to two academic years), which are individualized curriculum adaptations. The aim is for students to be minimally competent in the Catalan language (lingua franca) and will shortly be incorporated into the mainstream setting.
The particularities of the Reception Hall makes it clear candidate to carry out pilot projects for implementing new technologies. In the IES Ernest Lluch have used all kinds of Web 2.0 resources, online activities XTEC, using a classroom blog , using social networks (twitter, IM).
Since 2006, the @ Espurn Projecte has assembled a group of school teachers in Catalonia to form and share resources, methodologies and experiences on the use of new technologies in the classroom. As telecollaboration media group have been used primarily web espurna.cat , the social network Ning , wikis on specific topics and headquarters in Second Life, where there are regular meetings, courses, etc.. between the teachers involved.
As an extension of this work with other teachers in Second Life, since 2009 and after a brief experience with the 3D environment "Lively" in Google, in the IES Ernest Lluch we are introducing the use of virtual worlds with the students by Opensim platform within Vleaf project at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
María José Lasala Bello (IES Ernest Lluch i Marti Cunit, Tarragona)
María José Lasala's degree in History and Geography at the University of Barcelona (1990). Between 1992 and 1997 was an educator of children under guardianship or custody administrative (high social risk) in centers run by the Generalitat. Since 2003 he is professor of secondary education and Bachillerato. Since 2008 is Tutor Aula d'lanyard IES Ernest Lluch i Marti Cunit which develops educational, tutorial and cohesion of newly arrived students Catalan educational system.
Since the 2007/08 academic year participating in the Projecte Espurn @, an initiative of a group of teachers from schools Catalan applying new technologies to education and is based in the community and work telecollaboration, in order to enhance core competencies and collective integration of curricular diversification through a methodological change.
He is currently Head of Teacher Training in 3D environments @ Espurn Projecte under the direction of the Institut de Ciències de l'Education of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. During 2009 has begun to use with their students 3D virtual worlds, within the project VLeaf.
