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What is your interest in virtual worlds?

Academic, Blogger, One who works directly with students, K12

What virtual worlds are you interested in?

Second Life, Whyville, There.com, Activeworlds, Other

About Me:

Carmela Dell’Aria is currently a teacher of English and Italian as Foreign language and a specialized teacher for students in special needs in a secondary school in Palermo (Italy). She is also PhD researcher in the fields of virtual world use in languages teaching and learning. She has been a contract Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Palermo from 2007 to 2009 and actually she’s investigating the potentials of MUVEs for foreign language learning, as well as the factors that impact the learners’ language performance and promote the ICC as part of her Action Research project in Advanced Didactics of Italian as a Foreign Language. In July 2007 she she started her virtual learning at Languagelab beta English classes. Then she went on collaborating with Languagelab for a teacher training while she was experimenting her personal project Cafè Italia for BABEL Project: The Economy of Dreams (by Paulo Casaca and Ana Alves). In 2009 she attended the an online postgraduate course, Teaching and Learning with MUVEs , gave a course Giochi di società e strumenti didattici in SL for training Italian teachers from ANITEL, set her home in Virtlantis where she gave classes and public events, gave a workshop on educational tools for language classes: games and quizzes for the WIAOC 2009 Second Life Strand, Tesol’s Electronic Village online (EVO) 2009 and Second Life English Community. She also designed courses as part of the main project, around small groups of foreign students from Duke University (Durham, NC) and Dublin Technology Institute (Ireland). In 2008 she gave a workshop with Anna Begonia, L'Italiano nel Mondo, and in 2010 there was another workshop, Discovering Italian Renaissance, on how to use a Sim for educational games for the TESOL Electronic Village Online participants.
She also wrote some articles among which Stagionalità del Web e processi d’apprendimento. Insegnare italiano L2 con Second Life (In Caon F., 2010, Facilitare l’apprendimento dell'italiano L2 e delle lingue straniere, UTET, Torino) and collaborated to the pubblication of the book A Collection of Educational tools for Second Life.
She's interested in:
- language learning and teaching in RL and SL
- non verbal communication
- investigating the use of SL in education
- portability to MUVEs of lessons learnt from e-learning of English and Italian teaching
- social networks
Actually she's offering free Italian classes in SL, an Italian Pronunciation Help and she's also planning a Caffè Letterario.

Contact Information:
carmendellaria@libero.it
yahoo messanger: carmen35_64
msn: misette@hotmail.it
Skype: carmendell964
Usual time of connection: 21 pm GMT +1

Website:

http://call-slingua.blogspot.com/

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