2009.06.03
Our homework was to formulate our questionnaire and we have successfully done this by today. We have decided to divide into two groups, owners and students, to make the interview from two different aspects to observe the English teaching in Second Life (SL).
However, the process of searching for the other place to make our interview was not so smoothly as making these questionnaires. I had tried to find four possible places on Internet and search them in SL but in vain. Two of them were not built in SL; one were none members for me to make an interview to, there the avatars were like Non-Player-Computers (NPCs), whatever I asked them would receive no reply; the other one is the same one I found last time, where it was not able to teleport to. What was even worse, Lin replied me that she was going to give up interviewing “ESL”! She told me she had received rude treatments from the owner of “ESL” and decided to quit it for him having no willing to receive our interview. Well, it seemed our research had come to a dead end. There was no answer from “English Town”, either. I began thinking about changing the topic from “English teaching” into “how English teaching is known by everyone in Second Life” because the English teaching centers were empty or hard to find. I remembered there was only one interviewee knowing SL be a teaching material during my last interview.Luckily, after meeting with teacher today, we have got great support. Teacher listened to our dilemma and gives us some new places, “EduNation” and “Secondlife English”, to pay a visit to. These are places where foreign professors getting together and exchange their teaching experiences in SL. We believe this time the chances would be bigger to find new interviewees for us. If we can find a professor, he/she would probably give us a chance to visit his/her class.
Our homework was to formulate our questionnaire and we have successfully done this by today. We have decided to divide into two groups, owners and students, to make the interview from two different aspects to observe the English teaching in Second Life (SL).
However, the process of searching for the other place to make our interview was not so smoothly as making these questionnaires. I had tried to find four possible places on Internet and search them in SL but in vain. Two of them were not built in SL; one were none members for me to make an interview to, there the avatars were like Non-Player-Computers (NPCs), whatever I asked them would receive no reply; the other one is the same one I found last time, where it was not able to teleport to. What was even worse, Lin replied me that she was going to give up interviewing “ESL”! She told me she had received rude treatments from the owner of “ESL” and decided to quit it for him having no willing to receive our interview. Well, it seemed our research had come to a dead end. There was no answer from “English Town”, either. I began thinking about changing the topic from “English teaching” into “how English teaching is known by everyone in Second Life” because the English teaching centers were empty or hard to find. I remembered there was only one interviewee knowing SL be a teaching material during my last interview.Luckily, after meeting with teacher today, we have got great support. Teacher listened to our dilemma and gives us some new places, “EduNation” and “Secondlife English”, to pay a visit to. These are places where foreign professors getting together and exchange their teaching experiences in SL. We believe this time the chances would be bigger to find new interviewees for us. If we can find a professor, he/she would probably give us a chance to visit his/her class.
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