I just returned from IALLT 2009.\u00a0 There were several good presentations, but the highlight for me was poster session on games and simulations by Edie Furniss at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.\u00a0 She has started a wiki on the use of games and simulations in the foreign language classroom.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/flgaming.pbworks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Most of it was already familiar to me, but the section on Global Simulations<\/a> was almost entirely new.\u00a0 You can read about it yourself, but the very brief summary is that students blog, post pictures to Flickr, etc as if they were spending the semester abroad.\u00a0 The professor prompts them each day with a scenario, “Today you met your roommate for the first time.”, and students describe their imaginary encounter.\u00a0 Since the students will also describe the actions of other students in the class, they have to read each others stories to be consistent.\u00a0 The students end up creating a sort of mini-drama\/(non)reality tv show by the end of the semester. \u00a0 With the new version of the Mixxer<\/a>, we’ll be able to invite native speakers into this extended role play as well.<\/p>\n It sounds like fun, and there are countless ways to add Web 2.0 utilities as well.\u00a0 If you’re interested, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just returned from IALLT 2009.\u00a0 There were several good presentations, but the highlight for me was poster session on games and simulations by Edie Furniss at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.\u00a0 She has started a wiki on the … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,64,99],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-conference","tag-games","tag-simulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}