Emerald Island

For et par år siden var jeg med i et EU projekt (AYTEM) hvor en af deltagerne var forfatter/programmør til platformen TELSI, da jeg i Eurocall bogen over dette års indlæg så at en af foredragsholderne benyttede TELSI til en simulation med titlen Emerald Island var interessen straks vakt.

Emerald Island simulationen skal give brugerne miljøbevidsthed sammen med de nødvendige begreber indenfor miljø.

Brugerne er henholdsvis på nogle øboeres side eller på et stort olieselskabs hold. Der er fundet olieforekomster ud for Emerald Island og nu gælder det for beboerne at redde en truet dyreart fra de fæle oliefolk... 

Emerald Island- an interactive English language course in the Telsi learning environment aiming to teach environmental vocabulary and phrases to intermediary level students.

The course was planned in 1999 during the ALTERNATIVE project for language teachers in adult education field organised at Oulu University in co-operation with National Board of Education and The Finnish Association of Adult Education Centres, KTOL.

We had discovered that there was a lot of environmental vocabulary not easily available to our students. We wanted to plan an interesting, motivating and up-to-date English course and therefore we chose simulation to serve as the method of learning.

In a simulation the student learns by doing and participating in an imaginary situatdon where the stadent usaally tries to find a solution to a certain problem. Our simulation is placed on a beautiful fictional tropical island called Emerald Island. Each student is given a role and instructions what to do.

During the first two courses the students had also a few days of contact learning. The latter two were only in the net.
There were 12 - 16 participants on each course
The course lasts 10 weeks and presumes 30 hours of study minimum

In addition to the material in the net we had a CD of the texts made to help with pronunciation.
The course was successfully run four times in 1999 - 2001 to students around Finland. A couple of students were from Germany.

You may visit Emerald Island in the address: http://telsi1.discendum.com/telsipro/alternative14/bin/user
Your user name : visitor
and your password: eme

From the starting pages you'll always find instructions where to go also in English.
However, bear in mind that a student won't see all the material immediately but will progress from one page to another as the story unfolds.