EFL Professor in SL

Blu Heron Well, today Pio had the pleasure to be part of a basic skills building class.. the topic.. Eastern eggs!!! It was fun.. and the best part was to learn from Blu Heron !! She's the best... Did you know she taught Pio a long time ago how to rezz and open boxes... It was a very informal session after an Educator Tools session she conducted. So, this is how we did it... First thing you do when you get to the brewery classes  ( BUILDERS BREWERY Free Building Classes, Textures, Script.) you have to sit on a special area for builders.. each teacher changes the deco every time..it's so cool and creative. After the instructor says hello she gives the first instructions indicating to pick material you will need for the class... Blu Heron shouts: Welcome to Beginners Egg Coloring Activity! this IS for Beginners level 1 - no building experience! If you know your way around the edit window and have some experience building, the Easter baskets class at 1 is bette...

Virtlantis is one of  Pio's favorite CoP in SL. Her friend Kip Boahn (aka Kip Yellowjacket) mantains this community alive. VIRTLANTIS is a free resource and open community of practice for language learners and teachers in the virtual worlds of Second Life® and OpenSim. They offer free informal language learning experiences for a growing number of languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Romanian, and more! The most important fact about this wonderful CoP is that All language learning activities at VIRTLANTIS are FREE! SL Teleport Link: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Knowingly/99/141/21 OS Grid Teleport Link: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Coral%20Virtlantis/222/185/22 Official Website: http://www.virtlantis.com E-mail: info@virtlantis.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21079480225&ref=ts Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Virtlantis/134006163334878?ref=ts Contact Person: Kip Boahn (aka Kip Yellowjacket ) VIRTLAN...

Pio visited the Caledon Library after receiving a card with the event calendar for the week. She found a nice exhibition on Social Dance. She could see how dances have been around all along the history. She enjoyed  looking at pictures of the dances and read cards with the information about the them. She also found a lot of interesting books that are free to take with you. If you visit the library go to the third and fourth floor and...Just click the bookshelves to get a folder with wonderful works of literature. Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Deadwood & Al Andalus) Library Events for January 12 through 18, 2011. Continuing Exhibits: Caledon Library - To Move in measure, an exhibit on Social Dance, curated by Miss Leslie Weston Mon 2010-11-01 - Fri 2011-07-01 Where: Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/59/196/23 Events of th...

Pio was invited to attend a really special party. The House warming Party at EduNation . But, what's EduNation you might ask yourself.  Well, that's great place for educators and students in SL. There are three EduNation islands and according to what we can read in their wiki, they are focused on the potential for Virtual Worlds (VWs) to enhance the language learning process and is maintained by a community of educators who contribute towards paying for the rent of the islands in Second Life. These islands are owned by Gavin Dudeney, Randall Sadler, Heike Philp and Paul East, educators and visionaries that dedicate their time and resources to provide this virtual space in a not-for-profit manner. So, this Sunday, 12 December 2010, Pio teleported to the first Island: EduNation I , there she participated in he opening of the Webheads HQ . Webheads in Action is a woderful CoP, (Community of Practice). The Webheads are a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community...

Well, at 5pm GMT/ 10am PDT on October 15th ( World time ), the SLanguages 2010 Conference opens its virtual doors. 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 a...

Well, this time.. Pionia was invited to go on a tour to Chichen Itza in Mexico by the The Avalon Learning Project , what she didn't know is that she'd ended up being the guide on the tour. This was really funny, she decided to wear her princess Maya outfit and bring her beautiful horse Brujo with her to the tour. It was a good thing that she has been there before with the webheads. Now, this place  has been classed as one of the Seven Wonders in Second Life, the reproduction of Chichén Itza is a jewel of breathtaking jungle exotic and old Aztek ruins. It is a beautiful Summer palace, village and beach relaxation retreats. To go there, just follow the link... http://slurl.com/secondlife/Visit%20Mexico/67/197/28 Accepted the challenge proposed by Gwen Gwasi, she googled some info on this famous maya ruins in Wikipedia (of course), she found out that ....." Chichen Itza means "at the mouth of the well of the Itza") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site ...

Avalon.. again..invited Pio to go on a tour this time to know more about the Turkish culture.. She must confessed she didn't know much about it. The invitation read: Be a guest in a traditional Turkish home and chat about the country, people, culture and language. Daffodil invites you to a Turkish evening. You will take a culture quiz and while sipping our Turkish tea or coffee, we will talk about interesting facts and stereotypes about Turkey and the Turkish people. You will also learn some useful phrases which you might use during a trip to Turkey. This was the location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Forum%20Europe/128/128/0 Pionia had a lot of fun.. and learn some litle words and expressions...Like:  Merhaba = hello Also, we went through some quiz questions where Daffodil asked us about what we knew of her country. It was a really interesting way to get to know more of the Turkish culture. Our hostess invited us to drink a delicious cup of Turkish coffee. Her...

Continuing with Pionia's Educators friends in SL. She's really proud to introduce one of her dearest friends in the virtual worlds. Cyber Placebo . (aka Edith Paillat ).  In her profile in SL you can read..." New Zeland uni's Language Technology Specialist, supporting  teaching & learning of 12 languages, training academics in  ed technology, implemented computer language labs in our resource centre, etc. Interested in language learning/ teaching and language resource centres in Virtual Environments. Currently experimenting building a Virtual French Resource Centre but keen on developing it for more languages ... :-) Also potentially seeking interest in university language exchanges. " In December 2008 she embarked upon a fantastic voyage where everything is possible. Cyber Placebo was born into Second Life in December 2008 and quickly matured with the help other educators avatars and finished building a Virtual French Resource Centre in March 2010. S...