English Village!

Hello!

My name is [email=fire@eslteacherlink.co.kr]Fire Centaur[/email] from http://www.eslteacherlink.co.kr, I am an English Language teacher from Canada, currently living in Seoul South Korea.

I have recently opened English Village to help teachers interested in Teaching to get started.

Since we are all pioneers here in this field, I beleive that collaboration is the most important! We must stick together and help each other out!

Over the past few months I have collected a few tools that can be useful in giving SL presentations, and for teaching in SL.

Therefore, if you want to get started in SL, and work together to find a way to deliver English Education in the VR world...
come to my island!
I will be very excited to meet you!


We hope that by using the island, teachers may find students and that students interested in studying English in SL may find teachers to teach them!

Currently we have four classrroms available, and also a clubhouse.
In order to cover costs of the island, we have prepared four classrooms - equiped with tools for you to use. Three of the classrooms are for permanent residents who need a place where they can regularily meet - we have established a fee structure for this to help cover costs.

We also have made a free classroom available for those wishing to experiment with first.

Any teacher can use this, just please book ahead with me so that we may avoid any scheduling conflicts.

The free class comes equiped with:

*** A Separate Reception Area
*** A Teacher's Desk
*** Optional Email Kiosk set up on the island for your students
*** Optional Homework Submitter Kiosk - goes to your email
*** Skypeme Now Button
*** Chalkboard that you can type on
*** Two white boards that can accept PowerPoint Files
*** Laser Pointer (Must buy this - 700L)
*** A Shoulder Puppet that you can use to facilitate the lesson (Must buy this 100L)
*** Chairs for your students
*** A table for the teacher

If you are interested in using our permanant facilities, we can make arrangements to get you started! Just IM me in SL, or send an email to [email=fire@eslteacherlink.co.kr]fire@eslteacherlink.co.kr[/email]

Our permanent offices include some addtional tools and support:


*** Your Own Desk
*** Email Kiosks for your students IN YOUR CLASSROOM
*** Homework Submitter Kiosk IN YOUR CLASSROOM - goes to your email
*** Skype Status Indicator IN YOUR CLASSROOM
*** Skypeme Now Button IN YOUR CLASSROOM
*** Chalkboard that ONLY YOu, AND OTHER AUTHORIZED USERS can type on
*** Two white boards that ONLY YOu accepts YOUR PowerPoint Files
*** Laser Pointer
*** A Shoulder Puppet that you can use to facilitate the lesson
*** Chairs for your students
*** A counter for the teacher
*** Customized Wall Clocks for your timezone, and or your students timezones
*** A Note card and Sound Bulletin board where your students can leave messages for you
*** 1 HOUR PRIVATE TEACHER TRAINING

Also, if you need help learning how to use the tools, I can help you with that too! See our forums for more info

We also have a website set up to support the island:
http://www.eslteacherlink.co.kr

Anyhow We hope to see you there!

Hi Fire - your classroom looks very relaxed - a good learning atmosphere!

Peter

Thanks for your post Peter!

Day by day we will improve and increase our services and results. In RL, I teach at an elementary school - and everyday I can't stop thinking of English Village!

I will continue to make it cool for you!

Cheers!
Thanks for visiting!

"Therefore, if you want to get started in SL, and work together to find a way to deliver English Education in the VR world...
come to my island!
I will be very excited to meet you!"

Hi, I'm an American teaching English in China but when I tried to visit the English Village it rejected my teleport saying that I didn't have permission to go there. I was dumped in some unknown place. Is it possible for visitors to go there? I tried several times useing the URL in the post.

Ailin

Hi ther Ailin! Sorry for the late reply!

We should have fixed this problem by now, in order to access English Village, you must join our Free Group: "English Village" first. You can do this by pressing cntrl-F, to open the search window in SL, then clicking on the groups tab, and searching for "English Village" - you can also just search for "English" - we are the largest English group in SL...

Then click the join button. That will give you access to ALL parts of our island -

I guess we had the main teleport area blocked for group only before -that's why you were having problems... should work now!

Let me know if it doesnt!