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Figure 1. Host family's home

Figure 2. NPC interaction in Croquelandia

courses in the Department of Spanish and Portu-
guese at the institution where these students were
enrolled. In addition, all participants were native
speakers of American English and reported English
as their native language. In terms of experience
with technology, the participants reported general
technology experiences that were fairly similar to
technology use on the entire campus.
Overall, participants were “experienced but
not sophisticated” (Walker & Jorn, 2007, p. 5).

That is, students demonstrated a high level of
experience and use of computers and online com-
munication tools (e.g., laptops, social networking
sites, instant messenger), but demonstrated very
little experience with, or use of, authoring, gam-
ing, or Web 2.0 technologies (e.g., programming
tools, MMOGs, handheld games, wikis, blogs,
and photo sharing platforms).