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February 11, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm
Thu 11 Feb 2009, 1pm GMT and 5am SL time London 1pm, Berlin 2pm, Ankara 3pm, Dubai 5pm, Tokyo 10pm, New York 8am, Los Angeles (SL time) 5am. For world time click here Join us for our regular monthly AVALON LEARNING event in Second Life aimed at exp…
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Blog Posts

Graham Stanley

Teaching Languages in a Virtual World - TESOL EVO

The TESOL EVO (Electronic Village Online) kicks off on January 11th and enrolment has now just opened for these six-week long hands-on virtual sessions and this year there is a wide variety you can choose to join,details of which are in the EVO Call for Participation: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/Call_for_Participation2010

I'll be co-moderating the TeachingContinue

Posted by Graham Stanley on January 7, 2010 at 7:56pm — 1 Comment

Ton Koenraad

NIFLAR AVALON collaboration

AVALON partner, Klaus Hammermüller, travelled all the way from Vienna to join the SURFnet OpenSim project's 2009 final meeting, sharing experiences and know-how and discuss further collaboration with NIFLAR. We exchanged ideas for further collaboration between Avalon and Niflar, such as exchanging 3D content and tasks.
Klaus also presented his ideas on a follow up network proposal to Brussels involving NIFLAR, AVALON and other potential partners interested in future experiments and knowledge exc… Continue

Posted by Ton Koenraad on December 18, 2009 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Paul Driver

Testing times…

We're going through the ritual of pretending that tests are a good way of assessing our students' language learning progress again in my workplace. What other solutions are out there that are compatible with the learning outcomes of formal education? Is anyone using SL in imaginative ways for language assessment?

Posted by Paul Driver on December 17, 2009 at 3:40pm — 9 Comments

missysandra

My Test Blog Post

Just trying to see if this thing works. eating disorder treatments
Its good to be here.

Posted by missysandra on December 7, 2009 at 3:50am — 1 Comment

Graham Davies

Christmas Holodeck at the EUROCALL/CALICO HQ

My colleague Randall Sadler has already done a lot of work on our EUROCALL/CALICO Christmas Holodeck. It's taking shape at the EUROCALL/CALICO HQ and will be accessible via the Horizons rezzer at ground level. It will include a skating rink:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/31/35/22

I am putting together a box of Christmas goodies: decorations, trees covered in snow, and landmarks for Christmas fairs and ski resorts… Continue

Posted by Graham Davies on November 11, 2009 at 4:00pm

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Project Coordination

The School of Education
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

Gary Motteram
gary.motteram [at] manchester.ac.uk



This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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