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Instituto Cervantes: CervantesTV and Second Life
On Tuesday, February 12, at 19:30 in Madrid (1:30pm EST), the Instituto Cervantes will host a high profile launch event for its new Internet TV platform and the virtual Instituto Cervantes in Second Life produced by metafuturing and Innovex4G. See also our blog in Spanish.
Remote visitors will be able to follow parts of the event in SL, and RL visitors will be able to see and talk to them via dedicated SL screens in the event area. The launch event will be followed by several weeks of interactive exhibitions and activities, also available in SL. The Instituto Cervantes will also launch its pilot project for teaching Spanish in Second Life: “virtual Spanish courses to reach Internet users through the new technologies of virtual reality and 3D interaction”.
Some students from the worldwide network of Cervantes centers have been selected to participate in the pilot. We have been training a team of very bright and motivated teachers and look forward to seeing this pilot contribute to demonstrating the potential of VR for education and become a full program of the Institute. The language courses will be complemented by a set of casual games related to the Spanish language, developed for Second Life.
Wikipedia: “The Cervantes Institute is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature. The Cervantes Institute, a government agency, is the largest organization in the world responsible for promoting the study and the teaching of Spanish language and culture”.
Posted by G.P. on 02/09/08
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