The Trip to Banff

Our second mission in SL was "The trip to Banff". I would like to say that this time is better than the first one! Teacher Jason typed some unfamiliar words (for us) so that I can check what he was talking about and help myself understand the conversation more.

In this mission, mostly, I like the part we went finding the aimed picture because we can move around and interact with the virtual reality scene in SL. We did see lots of beautiful pictures! In this part, it seems like that we were playing a game that we have a mission and we have to find out the answer, and all of this makes the activity meaningful! Even though I was not the one first find out the picture, I felt I envolved in the mission. That was the feeling of participation!

It is still attractive for me to have a mission in SL for language learning at the second time. However, I felt a little bit dispointed that we couldn't see virtual Banff in SL. I thought we would have a mission in a virtual environment of Banff National Park in SL at first, but we didn't. we just stayed in somewher and talked. What's worse, my microphone didn't work, so no one could hear me, and I had to type whatever I would like to say. And sometimes I failed to type in time that when I finished typing, people have already ended the topic as well...

Anyway, I still look forward for the next mission in SL! I hope we can gain more world knowledge through having activities with real foreigner in SL, and learn English at the same time! :-) HAPPY~