The Trip to Banff-Dragon Boat (VEC3D 4.0)

Mission of the Week November 22-28, 2010


Read the blog entry entitled “My time in Banff National Park”. (http://vec3dteam.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-time-in-banff-national-park.html)

The mission entitled “The Trip to Banff-VEC3D 4.0” (http://faculty.ndhu.edu.tw/~vec3d/vec3d04-mission01.htm) is to provide you with educational and cross-cultural experiences. Write two short paragraphs explaining—



1. What new knowledge and experience did you learn or gain? (first paragraph of 200 words)

2. What kinds of cultural differences did you recognize? (second paragraph of 200 words)

VEC3D

This project entitled 3D Virtual English Classroom (VEC3D) is a campus-imaged virtual reality. VEC3D research project explores the whether and how of using the ideas of Strategic Interaction (SI), Goal-Based Scenarios (GBS) and Story-Centered Curriculum (SCC) to develop better communicative competence in the target language over the 3D virtual communication context.