This document describes two teaching practices from an Italian school focused on creativity and innovation. The first practice is an immersive English language learning project called "Guess the Country" that takes place in the virtual world of Second Life. In this project, students use interactive tools to match national stereotypes with country flags to learn vocabulary. The second practice is called Helios, but no details are provided about this project.

1. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
OUR BEST TEACHING/LEARNING PRACTICES
““2121stst
CENTURY EUROPEAN CLASSROOMS”CENTURY EUROPEAN CLASSROOMS”
2nd
MEETING – BLACKBURN UK

2. BEST TEACHING/LEARNING PRACTICES
ITALY
Regarding the good teaching practices in our
school we have chosen to submit 2 practices
which seem more significant:
- Immersive Learning “Guess the Country” teaching
English in Second Life
- Helios

3. SECOND LIFE IS A LEARNING INTEGRATED
ENVIRONMENT WHICH OFFERS THE USE OF TEXT,
PICTURES, VIDEOS AND AUDIO CHAT

4. SECOND LIFE IS AN IMMERSIVE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
WHICH PROMOTES INTERACTION THROUGH AVATARS AND
IS A GOOD TOOL TO TEACH IF YOU WANT ADOPT A VISUAL
LEARNING APPROACH

5. GUESS THE COUNTRY IS THE NAME OF ONE OF OUR SCHOOL'S
PROJECTS TO TEACH ENGLISH IN SECOND LIFE
THE LEARNING UNIT IS “THE PROVENANCE” AND THE FIRST
LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL STEREOTYPES
AND FLAGS TO COUNTRIES (LISTENING/READING)

6. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE TOOLS ARE AN INTERACTIVE WALL, A
WORDGRID, A MAP, SOME NOTECARD AND SOME
CUBES TO PLAY IN TEAM

7. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE WALL SHOWS A NATIONAL STEREOTYPE
AND THE RELATIVE FLAG
STUDENTS HAVE TO GUESS WHICH IS THE CONTRY ASSOCIATED

8. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE TEACHER ASKS STUDENTS TO ASSOCIATE DIFFERENT
NATIONS, FLAGS AND STREOTYPES

9. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE TEACHER ASKS STUDENTS TO ASSOCIATE DIFFERENT
NATIONS, FLAGS AND STREOTYPES

10. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE WORDGRID LET DO A MATCHING EXERCISE
STUDENTS HAVE TO ASSOCIATE FLAGS AND NATIONALITIES

11. GUESS THE COUNTRY
ANOTHER LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL
FLAGS AND COUNTRIES.
THE TEACHER ASKS THE TEAM TO REACH THE COUNTRY
RELATED TO THE STEREOTYPE OR TO THE FLAG MOVING ON THE
GEOMAP ON THE FLOOR (LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

12. GUESS THE COUNTRY
ANOTHER LINGUISTIC GAME ASKS THE USE OF THE CUBES
SO WE ARE ABLE TO ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES OF LISTENING AND
WRITING
(clicking on another cube will come out a notecard to write
then you can post the test in the other one next to)

13. GUESS THE COUNTRY
FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY
REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES (es: BARCELONA)

14. GUESS THE COUNTRY
FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY
REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES (es: BARCELONA)

15. GUESS THE COUNTRY
FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY
REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES (es: LONDON)

16. GUESS THE COUNTRY
FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY
REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES (es: PARIS)

17. FOR DEEPENING THIS PROJECT
https://vimeo.com/13155820

18. ...and now my colleague
will show you another project