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

May I draw your attention to the following report at

http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/second_life.pdf

Many of you have helped me in various ways while working on the report and I'm very grateful to you all.
I look forward to your comments.
Many thanks, Stefanie.

In case you're interested, we would like to welcome everyone to attend the first monthly event for teachers and students on the British Council Isle in the main grid of Second Life

WHAT: Language and Literature in the English Language Classroom

WHEN: Saturday October 31st at 9.30am UK time (02.30am SL time) - see http://timeanddate.com/s/1et0

WHERE: British Council Isle… Continue

Hi, here a short machinima of the features of the holodeck we did for the AVALON project, as we have presented for the team today.

We will post an hands-on session for all who want to check it out for themselves soon. (First priority is to do the mid-project report :-)

Gary agreed, we might do this as a break-out session on our meeting in Vienna as well.

It works, it is very easy to use and very useful for teachers :-)

Video Clip of EUROCALL 2009 Social Events

Those of you who attended the EUROCALL 2009 conference in Gandía can relive some of the social events in the video clip that I've uploaded to the EUROCALL CMC SIG Ning.

Those of you who were not able to attend the conference can see what you missed!

I have uploaded this video just once to the CMC SIG Ning rather than uploading it three times to all three EUROCALL Nings to which I belong, namely:

EUROCALL CMC SIG:… Continue