Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Virtual Language Resource Centre for French FL
The Virtual Language Resource Centre for French FL seeks to provide language resources for independent learning as well learning with the help of a tutor. With this platform I wish to offer a relaxed meeting point where students can come on their own, as a group to work on resources and/or, more formally with a tutor. The Centre offers French related Landmarks and objects with notecards with links to online resources and suggestions of activities. The scope of this project can be extended to building a broader language Resource Centre for other languages. Language. At a later stage a central reception area with teleporter could then be added for access possibly a holodeck rezzing rooms with specific language and cultural elements. During this showcase I hope to explain how and why I built such centre and, if time allows, engage participants in a discussion about the role of resource centres and independent language learning in a 3D environments.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20II/203/142/23
Heike Philp [Gwen Gwasi] and German students -- Baal by Berthold Brecht
Pio tried to attend this session but as she crashed, she couldn't go back to the session.. so.. she had to go to another one instead.. anyway....This is the RECORDING: http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/baal-by-bertolt-brechtHeike Philp [Gwen Gwasi] and German students -- Baal by Berthold Brecht
VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE -- Theatre play by German students. The actors, script writers and stage technicians are German students of the 20s Berlin project.
Baal is a poet who rejects the bourgeois society only to end up drunk, broke, a womanizer and a murderer. In this play you will see his decline and fall from favor of the rich publisher Mäch to the becoming of a murderer of his best friend Ekkart. The first scene is the decadent dinner party and the second and last scene takes place 7 years later, with a horrible surprise at a smoke filled beer café. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_%28play%29
Bertolt Brecht is a German poet, playwright and theatre director who wrote Baal in 1918.
Pio will be presenting at SLanguages 2010 today...
Pio will be presenting at SLanguages 2010 today... wowow.. she's so nervous but happy to be able to share her passion for teaching and learning in SL. Well, this is the info on the workshop.. Later she'll tell us about the conf and her experience... ooops almost forget... she'll be also participating in an unconference:Unconference
An unconference is a part without set program when conference participants get together, vote for a topic that they wish to discuss with others and then split into discussion groups. At the end of the 30 min discussion everyone meets again and a spokesman of each group relates their findings. Conferences which are entirely based on this concept are called barcamps or educamps.
This session will last 60 minutes
Now back to the workshop.... she's counting with the help of her dear Artstonian friends, to them a warm hug.. without them.. this wouldn't be possible.
Learning a Second Language in a Medieval World
Are you ready to learn something about Sim role playing culture? Have you ever wondered what a language activity in a virtual world could be like? This is your opportunity to experience role playing in a medieval sim. Join us in a tour a wonderful fantasy world: Artstonia and help us explore how to take full advantage of these virtual world environments to give students a motivating and engaging experience in which they can learn a new language.
For the blog on Language Learning in a Medivial world click here. For more information on Arstonia click here.
In this tour you will be asked to join a medieval role playing sim. Check the link for more info http://learningenglishinamedievalworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/lesson-1-greetings-and-introductions_20.html
This session lasts for 60-90 (depends om people’s time) minutes and takes place in Artstonia
Meeting point is the green Welcome Area of EduNation II where you will find support and landmarks for the tour.
VENUE: Meeting point EduNation II - Welcome Area
Well, break a leg.. Pio....
And remember Keep on Shining Love and Peace!
SLanguages 2010 Conference
Hashtag of the conference is #slang10
What an exciting programme ahead with 47 presenters offering more than sessions over a period of 24 hours! Presentations, workshops, tours, theatre place and a kitchen fire prepared to inform about best practise in language teaching and learning in virtual worlds.
This year's SLanguages Conference which acknowledges Gavin Dudeney's sterling work over the first three years of its existence has been organised by a committee of volunteers.
Among the many highlights of this conference are...
- 3 panel discussions
- an unconference
- presentations and workshops
- an Italian and a German theatre play (Bacchus and Bertolt Brecht's Baal)
- a teaching tools stand in the EduNation II sandbox coordinated by [Alexandra Ergenthal]
- a poster exhibition at EduNation II and AVALON by Shelly Terrell [Rainey Zapatero]
- an arts display around the Mega Temple by quadrapop Lane, arts curator at University of Western Australia's Art & Design Challenge
- a dance show at the closing party by JenzZa Misfit
For a time table http://tinyurl.com/slang10-
To register, go to the Welcome Area of EduNation II and click on the box in the middle and join the SLanguages Annual Symposium group.
There are three main venues, EduNation III Mega Temple, EduNation II Amphitheatre and AVALON Learning Sandbox and a number of tours to Macbeth, real life cities, Citta Ideale, Berlin 20s and other places. Meeting point for all of the tours is at the Welcome Area of EduNation II where you will be guided by support members and where you receive landmarks etc.
Would you like to invite friends and colleagues who do not have an avatar as of yet?
Most sessions of the conference will be streamed live in Adobe ConnectPro and some of the highlights also as LiveStream (kindly sponsored by OnlineEvents.co.uk) so that anybody can join and watch. http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.
Watch out for our roving reporter on the ground. [Jose Eternal] and her camera man [Marius Madrigal] will approach passerbies to try to get an interview.
Get immersed. Be prepared for magic.
And above all, enjoy the learning experience.
Wishing you a great conference
The SLanguages Organizing Committee
[Second Life names are mentioned in brackets]
Saturday, October 2, 2010
3rd Virtual Round Table Conference
Pio will be attending the 3rd Virtual Round Table conference. This is a 2-day conference which takes place completely online on Friday and Saturday, 8 - 9 October 2010 and is a conference dedicated to language learning with technology in Second Life.
This year.. we will be able to enjoy presentations and workshops by ...
Nicky Hockly, Lindsay Clandfield, Vicki Hollett, Duncan Baker, Graham Stanley, Barbara Sakamoto, Andy Chaplin, Jennifer Verschoor, Marisa Constantinides, Russell Stannard, Vance Stevens, Janet Bianchini, Henrick Oprea, Mike Harrison, Paul East, Marisa Pavan, Isil Boy, Genevieve Besserer, Kevin Westbrook, Judie Haynes, Sirin Soyoz, Paul Braddock, Wayne Cabana Jr., Stewart Tunnicliff, Guido Europeaantje, Björn Sauerhammer, Marina Petrovic, Antonella Baerriolo and Greta Sadler.
Pio is thrilled that many of those names are so familiar and deared to her like Vance, Jenny, Graham, Antoella, and Gwen.
Company presentations include...
LiveMocha, English360, LinguaTV, Busuu.com, Udemy, Language-bridge.com, Mikogo, Mindsnacks and others
What an excellent group of experts! The conference organizers, Heike, Shelly and Berni have a big goal, namely to conquer the ultimate challenge of all live online sessions and to conduct an organised, fun and fast-paced Pecha Kucha night!
The organizer also have another goal, namely to raise 3,000 € in sponsorship money for their teacher training grant. The current balance stands at 425 € and if you can donate goods and services for our auction or if you dig deep into your pockets and donate 2 or 3 € by hitting the PayPal donate button, it all counts and every single sponsor will be mentioned by name.
Well, all this look great so Pio will be looking forward to this very promising 3rd Virtual Round Table conference and hope to see her educator friends on-line.
Visit Virtual Round Table at: http://www.virtual-round-
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