SLanguages 2011 - 16-18 September

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Comment by Malcolm Compitello on June 29, 2011 at 21:01

Looking forward to attending and sharing information about The University of Arizona's second life language and cultural learning sim Cibola.

Comment by Mercedes Viola on June 29, 2011 at 17:41

Really looking forward to it.

Comment by Abraxas McAndrews on June 29, 2011 at 9:59

It is depending on my FL tasks...Nevertheless I would be happy to attend some events. :) Will the agenda be provided here as well?

 

Comment by Lynne Hand on June 18, 2011 at 14:52

I'll have to say "might" for now, as it depends on hubby's holiday dates.  Hopefully I will be able to update it to a more positive yay or nay soon.  :-)

Comment by Graham Davies on June 18, 2011 at 13:21

If you are a first-timer and still finding your feet in Second Life have a look at Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT site (which I edit). It's aimed at first timers and has lots of relevant links, as well as a link to my comprehensive downloadable tutorial materials in Word format, Introduction to Second Life Viewer 2. The tutorial materials take you through the basics, using the CALICO/EUROCALL HQ on EduNation III Island as the starting point. I shall be using these tutorial materials in my whole-day face-to-face workshop on Second Life for beginners at the EUROCALL 2011 conference, University of Nottingham, 31 August to 3 September 2011.

Comment by Jens Kjaer Olsen aka Jens Nerido on June 18, 2011 at 10:35

Well - also first timer.....like Frank ...mentors wanted...but maybe we can help each other......would like to help also....pic......and some film recording.

I think we shoud improve the recordings - put them on youtube = 15 min. But editing i takes time!!

Gwen had done a great job for a long time....told me that blip.tv will do the recordings......that sounds great!

Comment by Frank Stonehouse aka Salty Saenz on June 17, 2011 at 13:06

Looking forward to participating. This is my first time ... any mentors are much appreciated. See my profile for FB page and SLURL. Thanks -- Salty

Comment by Marc Meier-Maletz on June 9, 2011 at 2:24

Once again, I would be very happy to help, at least as member of a support team for Slanguages 2011, and of course as a "roving reporter" and/or "cameraman", as usual ;o)

Besides, I think it would be interesting to have a conference or a round-table or any other kind of gathering, "birds of feather", or ... you name (or invent) it, to try to find out which SL languages regular trainings -not just experiences- are running (or not) in one country or another.

I think mainly about countries in the middle and the south of Europe, such as France of course, which seem to be very late on such items, and I have the feeling that in other countries, there may be unexpected testimonies of working trainings ...

Why such a conf/round-table/... ?

I called the french antenna of a company based in Geneva, "learnissimo.com" which is offering online language teaching (with their own seemingly flash-based tool and Skype) and talked with the head of the marketing department. He told me he just went once or twice on SL and seemed not to know much - even nothing - about the opportunities SL offers concerning language teaching. I was very estonished ! ... and told him about Edunation, of course ;o)

Hopefully, and the end of such a conf, we -the language teachers next door, at least I feel like that- may find ways to promote SL language teaching in our very daily environment and we may too find ways to communicate this to the representatives of the concerned governments or at least local authorities.

I think it is as valuable to fight for this as it is to fight for free and open source software.

In one word as in thousands : let us get SL language teaching knowledge/skills/knowhow into everydays RL !

Well, ok, its a dream.

But do not forget that everything material (or less material) we are handling in our everydays life exists because one person dreamed about this one day (eg. Kékulé and the apes in his C6H6 formula, or Mendeleïev and his periodic table of elements).

And I really believe that SL language teaching can be part of the dream (*).

What do you think, fellows ?

Greetings

Marius Madrigal / Marc Meier-Maletz


(*)as far as I am concerned, that's why I came to SL and that's why I stay on SL.

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