One example was using a virtual world called Second Life to help students studying German relax.

We recreated a Bavarian beer house, so we took students with, uh, you know, big pints of beer.

Uh, well, things like this would not be possible in real, uh, classroom, of course.

But it was extremely interesting for me to see how many students that normally would be super quiet, they would never open their mouth, but on that platform, they were not afraid to talk because they were shielded behind avatars.

So technology basically created that safe space.

Yes, so students can practice talking in front of an audience of virtual people.

They would do different gestures that would ma- maybe make me feel either good or bad, but that's okay.

The idea is that I need to get used to it.