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Pionia Destiny tells about NANEC2010/11 Well, That was fun! Pio finally presented at the Virtual Round Table Conference. This conference was supposed to be given with the company of Dolors Capdet, designer and creator of NANEC2010, but unfortunately personal matters didn't allow her to be with Pio. Pio tried to describe NANEC2010 from her point of view as one of its participants and collaborator. This is a summary of what NANEC is about: Literacies and New Connective Environment Rationale New Technologies have changed the way we learn and socialize with each other. The web greatly facilitates the access to data and information but also generates some difficulties on finding what it could be or not of use for our inquiring. Information has stopped from being written and asynchronous to become  visual and synchronous. Contents have stopped from being lineal and authored to become fragmented and social. Users have sopped being consumers of contents to become creators of cont...

Well, Pio has been busy in both real life and SL. This time she's getting ready to participate in the Virtual Round Table Conference. She was kindly invited by the organizers to join them and present on one of her projects in SL. She'll be presenting about NANEC 2010/11. I'll take 30 minutes and Dolors Capdet, NANEC's creator will try to join her. Real life matters might have her busy there. Well, this is the program we got from Gwen.   Virtual Round Table Conference 25-27 March 2011 The Virtual Round Table Conference is a 3-day conference on language learning technologies and takes place both in Adobe ConnectPro (virtual classroom) and Second Life (virtual world). The following sessions listed are the Second Life sessions. There are a total of 8 sessions taking place in SL and another 30 sessions in Adobe. For all sessions please navigate to... PROGRAM http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/program-2 SCHEDULE http://www.virtual-round-table.com/events ...

Tour to the British Council Isle in Second Life URBE EFL Center in SL visited the British Council Isle. This is a wonderful Sim used for English language learning and teaching. We went on a quest... The Merlin Learning Quest for English language learners.  The following video is an introduction to what students can do there. Graham Stanley aka Baldric Commons tells us about it. You can practice your English and learn more about the British Culture by visiting: Learn English Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 Time: 11:30 SLT... 2:00 PM Venezuelan Time URBE EFL Center meeting point: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Mist/213/86/21 Meeting in british Council Isle point: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/British%20Council%20Isle/230/127/39   Well, Pio looked up for  a litle info on the story behind the Quest: Themes, events and characters of the Arthurian Legend 1. Arthur is a king of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established an empire over Britain , ...

Well, Pionia and her students from URBE got invited to do something out of the ordinary... Pio thought.. this is excellent it could be our final project for this level. So she asked her students......How would you like making friends with a Russian EFL student?.... Then she showed them a project proposal from Professor Olga Scheglova, from Omsk: Dear Pionia and students, I'm Olga Scheglova, an English teacher from Omsk, Siberia, Russia . I visited your presentation at CO2011 and really liked it. I thought that if you are interested, we could have a joint project with our students. The idea of the project is crosscultural communication. It is an opportunity to practice their speaking and writing in English, to learn more about people from another country (some of them are studying Spanish at the moment) and to introduce more technology in their lives. My students are 17-18 y.o., there are 14 of them, their English level is intermediate (Some have upper-intermediate, some hav...

URBE EFL Center in SL We are in Second life !!! Please join us for some fun practice. We'll learn a few basic things about SL, roleplaying and learning English. Time: Wednesdays at 8:00 pm  Venezuelan time - 4:30 pm SLT Sundays at 10:30 am Venezuelan time - 7.00 am SLT   Meeting Point : http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Mist/213/86/21

Well, we are going on a tour to the British Council Isle, so Pio had the Idea of creating a T-shirt for her group: URBE EFL Cneter in SL. So she just googled "How to Create a T-shirt in SL" and that's what she found: 1. Two tutorials: Introduction to Creating Clothing in Second Life® , where she found the templates that you need to create ew clothes and Creating Your First Shirt in Second Life® 2. A nice video, explaing things rally easy and clearly URBE EFL Center T- Shirt So,well.. everything seemed perfect.. easy.. but there was a problem..Pio doesn't have the Photoshop program on her computer.. mmmm.. Well, she tried with powerpoint..it took a few tries but it fanally work. Save the powerpoint as a template Making the shirt That was fun... but wait a minute.. that's a t-shirt for a girl...mmmm. Now, what do we do? Pio thought. At that moment her friend Cata Charisma came by to visit. So, Pio asked him to wear the shirt..of course.. it was n...

Well, Pio is fascinated at what's happening at the Tesol 2011 VILLAGE (Language Learning and Community Building in Second Life). The kick off was a great opportunity to meet new educators that come to SL for the first time. They are very lucky because they got just to the place where the most experienced avatars live and work to help other educators. New SL  and more experience SL language educators  had the chance to try to set up their microphones and were given the chance to introduce themselves and have a first pick at what holodecks are and got the chance to visit the Piazza. It was a really nice way to start the sessions. The idea of this 5 week EVO Session Adventure that repeats every January, (thanks to these seccions Pionia was born), is to facilitate the process of learning to use 3D worlds by helping educators to develop basic SL skills which are appropriate for and relevant to teaching and learning foreign languages. Participants are introduced to various la...