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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor | Department of English | - |
dc.creator | Gui, D | - |
dc.creator | Li, L | - |
dc.creator | Wong, DLF | - |
dc.creator | Au Yeung, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-11T08:22:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-11T08:22:47Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2040-3550 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/5166 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Intellect | en_US |
dc.rights | Reproduced with permission of the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Collaborative learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Creativity | en_US |
dc.subject | Language learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Second life | en_US |
dc.subject | Technical writing | en_US |
dc.subject | Virtual department | en_US |
dc.title | Good to use for virtual consultation time : second life activities for and beyond the technical and web-based English writing classroom | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.description.otherinformation | Author name used in this manuscript: Dean A. F. Gui | en_US |
dc.description.otherinformation | Author name used in this manuscript: Dora Wong | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 57 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 76 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1386/mvcr.2.1.57_1 | - |
dcterms.abstract | This empirical study evaluates comments provided by first year undergraduate students from an English for Technical and Web-Based Writing (ETWW) course at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) from the second semester of the 2009/2010 academic year. Students were asked to describe their experiences with an in-class task consisting of creating a movie poster, and then responding to and evaluating each other's work in a showcase area designed within the HK PolyU Second Life (SL) virtual campus. Sources of student comments considered included HK PolyU iFeedback forms and video-recorded focus group sessions. The information was then filtered for facilitation of other possibilities in language learning. The authors examine how these activities could be applied in a collaborative learning environment and other collaborative contexts. The goal of this study is to show the creative abilities of students from a technical writing course to think beyond the technical writing classroom. Creating activities of this nature can not only substantiate claims of practical applicability from a virtual world into the physical world, but also acknowledges the benefits of three-dimensional platforms over two-dimensional platforms. While some of the ideas mentioned (like creating and featuring films in three-dimensional virtual environments) are not novel, they are relevant in showing the quick adaptability of first year university students – many of whom have little to no knowledge of SL, and who tend to view virtual worlds simply as another 'game' – in creative thinking and learning. Additionally, the authors consider the relationships between extension projects and the in-class poster task, and the implications of these projects for a potential virtual Department of English. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Metaverse creativity, June 2012, v. 2, no.1, p. 57-76 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | Metaverse creativity | - |
dcterms.issued | 2012-06 | - |
dc.identifier.rosgroupid | r60931 | - |
dc.description.ros | 2011-2012 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal | - |
dc.description.oa | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_IR/PIRA | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Journal/Magazine Article |
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