EFL Professor in SL

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 Randall Sadler [Randall Renoir] , Dr. Doris Molero [Pionia Destiny] , Kip Boahn [Kip Yellowjacket] 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 VENUE: EduNation III Mega Temple http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/127/130/28 Now back to the workshop.... she...

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...