Second lives and newer islands : language, culture and identity through migration literature. 'Second lives and newer islands : lengua, cultura e identidad a través de la literatura de migración'

Resumen

Technologies have burst wide open for Internet users to participate, share, communicate and collaborate with one another in order to spread knowledge and learning experiences. Emerging technologies as the so-called Web 2.0 have helped to change the traditional concept of education, assuming a methodological approach wherein students collaborate with co-learners, communicate and socialize through blogs, wikis, postcasting, chats, social communities, learning management systems like Moodle, or interactive tri-dimensional virtual worlds as Second Life (SL). Being them all promising channels for the constructivist learning theory, the Web 2.0 potentials can be applied in a wide variety of fields, disciplines and communicative instances. In light of the aforementioned premises, the outlook of e-learning 2.0 approaches is focused on presenting innovative ideas for educators and students through a specific course based in Migration and Identity literature within the framework of language, literature and culture learning in English, Portuguese and Spanish by exploiting virtual platforms, proposals which are gaining increasing popularity among educators and students.