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What is Teleport

Handbook of Research on Collaborative Teaching Practice in Virtual Learning Environments
Allows you to move from one area of SecondLife®. It can be activated using the Landmark stored in your inventory, using the map, by offering Teleport from one player to another.
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Virtual Learning Environments for a New Teaching Methodology
Iolanda Caponata (I.C. 2 S. D'Acquisto, Italy) and Anna Pietra Ferraro (IC 70 Marino Santa Rosa – Napoli, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2426-7.ch004
Abstract
The potential and new educational perspectives offered by virtual environments are the arguments with which you want to highlight the opportunity, through the experience of the simulation offered by environments such SecondLife®, to organize and expand the involvement and motivation of pupils through active participation. It will be explained, in detail, how to plan a lesson in SecondLife® after having designed and built a learning environment by creating Holodeck, Teleport, Script, and the use of numerous Tools needed to implement a teaching unit.
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Advancing Learning Through Virtual Worlds
to transport one’s avatar directly from one location to another within a virtual world without flying there.
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The Use of Network-Based Virtual Worlds in Second Language Education: A Research Review
The ability of an individual user controlled avatar to rapidly change location within a virtual world.
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A New Vision for Distance Learning: Learning to Teach in Second Life
A method of movement where the avatar is moved from one location to another
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Learning in Second Life: Developmental Theory of Avatar Growth and Change
A method of movement where the avatar is moved from one location to another.
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