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Contact Dafne Gonzalez (Daf Smirnov)
If you have never been to SL, follow these instructions:
Day | Time (GMT & SLT) | Place | Speaker(s) | Title | Abstract |
Friday May 22 |
9:00 GMT 2:00 am SLT |
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Teresa Almeida d'Eça Tere Short in SL
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The XyText Notecard Reader |
This is partly a demo session in which I will show how to use the Notecard Reader (NR) and partly a hands-on session in which participants can play with the NR that I will give them. Towards the end we'll brainstorm ideas about how to use this tool. |
10:00 GMT 3:00 SLT |
Muvenation |
Angelina Macedo/ Morgen String in SL |
Benefits and drawbacks of using The 2in1 Holodeck and the vComm Presenter in Education | In this session two tools will be presented and explored: The 2in1 Holoeck and the vComm Presenter. The benefits and drawbacks of using them for educational purposes will be highlighted | |
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17:00 (GMT) - 10:00 am SLT | Languagelab |
Jessica Driscoll / Jessie Teacher in SL jessie@ languagelab.com
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Social relationships in English City. | This presentation looks at the social relationships that students have with the 'English City People' who play functional roles in the virtual space. This draws a correlation between the architecture of virtual worlds and a learning environment based on learning through social contexts | |
Sus Nyrop |
18:00 GMT
11:00 AM SLT |
Moira Hunter (RL) Busy Link (SL) Marlene Brooks (RL) Zana Kohime (SL)
Jon Brouchoud (RL) Keystone Bouchard (SL)
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The Learning Curve for Architectural Education in Virtual Worlds |
Join us in an unconference discussion.
Topic: blending language learning, architecture, virtual worlds, technologies and the pros and cons.
Where: ArchiTECool (Architecture through Technology Enhanced Collaborative Online Learning in Other Languages) |
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21:00 (GMT) - 14:00 SLT | Ciudad Bonita in SL |
Dafne González / Daf Smirnov in SL Cristina Palomeque / Cristina Papp in SL |
A tour of Ciudad Bonita in Second Life | Come visit our mediterranean city "Ciudad Bonita" in SL, which was especially built to teach Spanish. You will find out where and how we teach. Have fun playing with our educational tools. | |
22:00 GMT 15:00 SLT |
Plaza de Ciudad Bonita in SL |
Evelyn Izquierdo/ Evelyn Michalski in SL Jennifer Verschoor/ Tamara Ashton in SL |
SL Basic Skills (For beginners) | A basic workshop for newbies in SL. Learn in a fun way to walk, fly, jump, move objects, use camara controls, and many other SL skills. | |
Saturday May 23 |
7:00 GMT 12:00 am (midnight) SLT (from Friday to Saturday |
Simulcast for users with little SL experience. AUDIO only with text chat. http://webheadsinaction.org/chat |
Carol Rainbow / Carolrb Roux in SL carolrb@rmplc.co. uk |
Making audio posters for vocabulary practice |
This workshop will enable building beginner delegates to create image resources that language learners can interact with to hear vocabulary items. All resources needed will be provided. During the session participants will learn how to make a poster board, add a texture and script to make it play a sound file. Provided during the session: · Sample English sound files including days of the week, season, months & numbers · Textures corresponding to the sound files · Touch and step-on scripts for interaction · Notecards explaining the process for the touch script in English and Spanish · A notecard explaining where to download Audacity and how to use it to create appropriate sound files for SL · Posters explaining the process to put up in the workshop area · Examples for delegates to try out – and freebies to take away |
9:00am GMT 2:00am SLT |
Simulcast for users with little SL experience. AUDIO only with text chat. http://webheadsinaction.org/chat |
Giuliana Perco (SL: Cvetka Nacht) Jaime Alamo (SL: Alpha Lorgsval) Jennifer Stanigar (SL: Bonbon Braveheart) Margarita Pérez-García (SL: Paz Lorenz)
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Creating Flexible Learning Environments with Builders Buddy | In this workshop you will learn how to create your own portable personal teaching space using the Builders Buddy scripts. | |
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3:30 - 5:30 am SLT |
(Also part of the SLanguages conference)
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Nergiz Kern (SL: Daffodil Fargis) Dennis Newson (SL: Osnacantab Nesterov) Nick Noakes (SL: Corwin Carillon) Graham Stanley (SL: Baldric Commons)
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Language Teacher Training in Second Life |
Panel presentation / discussion
This panel discussion will present the experiences from a 6-week online workshop organised through TESOL's 'Electronic Village Online' and will be followed by a guided discussion on the best ways of using Second Life for teaching and learning languages.
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14:00 GMT 07:00 am SLT |
Simulcast for users with little SL experience. AUDIO only with text chat. http://webheadsinaction.org/chat
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Shiv Rajendran Shiv Teacher in SL |
Learning in Virtual Worlds | Presentation: How learning has traditionally taken place in Virtual Worlds and how this can be applied to teaching | |
16:00 GMT 9:00 am SLT |
http://bit.ly/languagelab |
Chris Speck / CaptainJayBird Beck in SL chris@languagelab. com |
Demonstration of Virtual Language Learning Machines and their use and in the virtual classroom. |
I love creating games and puzzles for language students and SL offers possibilities beyond real life. I'd like to demonstrate and share some of the machines I've made and ask for feedback and comments on these. Puzzles and Machines to Demo: These are fairly big and numerous prims. I'd expect the demo to go on for an hour with the first forty mins on demonstration and the last twenty on feedback. |
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18:00 GMT
11:00 am SLT |
Muvenation Sandbox |
Antonella Berriolo / Anna Begonia in SL |
Playing with sounds and prims. | Workshop:
What will we do? With 3 simple ingredients: a sound file, a prim and a script, we will cook some easy tools to use in class or for self access exercises. |
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13:00 SLT (1:00 pm) |
SL (Univ. of Essex)
(read comments on venue - under abstract)
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Iffaf Khan iykhan@essex.ac. uk |
Monday morning classes | The title of the topic refers to the idea of why self-access material is important. This is a talk and a swap shop of tools for self-access. The aim is two-fold: to illustrate how Second Life provides opportunities for self-access and to provide examples of self-access material. The audience are asked to bring their own ideas and suggestions of self-access material to the swap shop.
This will last for one hour. Venue: The event would be held in our Ivor Crewe Auditorium (which is a replica of the real one). Participants would have to visit the campus the day before, at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wivenhoe%20Island/247/26/22 , to request a group invitation. Two hours before the event they would be given a day pass and after the event they will be ejected from the group There will be a drop box at the above-mentioned location one week before the talk. Participants can drop notecards in it with their comments, ideas or suggestions for self-access in RL and SL. Participants should clearly name their notecards. I'll make the drop box full-perm so they can see and read each other's notecards ahead of time. It should add to the flavour of the swap shop and it make it truly interactive. |
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Sunday, May 24 |
6:00 GMT 11:00 pm (Saturday evening) SLT |
Muvenation |
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7 free tools to improve group discussion in SL | Demonstration of 7 free tools that will help teachers to manage groups discussions in SL. |
7:00 GMT 12:00 am (midnight) SL Time |
Islands of jokaydia (SLurl)
Simulcast for users with little SL experience. AUDIO only with text chat. http://webheadsinaction.org/chat Select Webheads chat room |
Jo Kay and Islands of jokaydia Residents |
Immersing in Virtual Worlds - jokaydia style! | Join us for some immersive activities on the Islands of jokaydia and discuss building communities of practice and learning opportunities in Virtual Worlds with members of the Islands of jokaydia Community of Practice |
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8:00 GMT 01:00 am SLT |
Cristina Palomeque / Cristina Papp in SL |
Achieving the Ying Yand in language education in virtual worlds | Research in progress: This paper aims to show how students and teachers enter the virtual classroom with a set of expectations and beliefs about language learning and teaching which very often are not shared among the agents in this process. Identifying these mismatches will help teachers and students to minimize tensions, increase understanding and maximize learning opportunities. | ||
10:00 am GMT 3:00 am SLT |
Simulcast for users with little SL experience. AUDIO only with text chat. http://webheadsinaction.org/chat Select Webheads chat room |
Antonella Berriolo / Anna Begonia in SL
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Playing with sounds and prims. | Workshop:
What will we do? With 3 simple ingredients: a sound file, a prim and a script, we will cook some easy tools to use in class or for self access exercises. |
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21:00 GMT 14:00 pm in SLT |
LLL3D Island |
Carmela Dell'Aria/Misy Ferraris in SL |
Teaching and learning with MUVEs. Educational tools for language classes: games and quizzes |
During this session I'll show you some educational tools that a teacher can manage for a creative and funny language activities in SL. I'll give you the opportunity to be involved in a demonstration lesson for learning simple and basic Italian words. Participants can try games and quizzes during the session. |
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