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Your avatar name in SL: Gwen Gwasi

Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi

Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi is founder and CEO of let’s talk online (founded 2003) and previously held the position as managing director of LANCELOT School^TM GmbH (2006-2010), an accredited teacher training center for language teaching in real-time via the internet by means of virtual classroom technology and virtual worlds. With over 20 years in education and with Germany’s first live online language school, Philp co-initiated two European funded projects and worked with 35 European partners including 17 universities to develop accredited and certified teacher training courses. These EU Projects are LANCELOT (LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers) and AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live Online. Philp runs her own online conference, the Virtual Round Table conference and is co-organizer of the SLanguages conference in Second Life. She co-owns EduNation islands in Second Life and her blog let’s talk online is a rich resource for language educators who want to work online.

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Celebration of Graham Davies' Life

On Sunday, 1st July 2012, 7am SLT/ 2pm GMT (3pm UK time) we met on EduNation to celebrate the life of Graham Davies, founder and first president of EuroCALL who passed away on 21st of June (2 weeks after his 70th birthday) after a long battle with cancer.

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Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:14 — 1 Comment

First Responder - Emergency preparedness and disaster relief simuationtraining in Second Life

What an amazing tour that was, the First Reponder Site which Cyber organized for our teacher meeting on Friday.

The First Responder Sim is a training area for emergency preparedness and actual training participants will receive certification at the end. The sim is provided by LL for public educational and training purposes in the hope that it will enable more lives to be saved in disasters.

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Posted on August 19, 2011 at 16:26

Let's learn to do - Graduation ceremony of the students of the University of Washington

The graduation ceremony of the 3rd class of the Virtual Worlds certified course by the University of Washington on the UW Avalumni island in Second Life was indeed a special occasion on 10^th of June 2011 not only for the 13 graduates from all over the world but also for myself, glued to the monitor at 3am in the morning.

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Posted on August 19, 2011 at 16:14

Let's learn to do

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Posted on June 10, 2011 at 23:57

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At 10:58 on April 29, 2010, Graham Davies said…: Beatriz, I am a retired teacher of German. I was a consultant to the BBC on their online German Steps course for beginners:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj

I have links to several other online courses in German on my Favourite Websites page:
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm

There are some great German sims in Second Life: Munich, Cologne and Berlin, for example. And the Goethe-Institut has a sim where you can practise your German for free with native speakers:

Regards
Graham

At 10:04 on April 29, 2010, Beatriz Lupiano said…: Medusa's going to be tough to build, but great to play, I think!! I'll have to work on making my movements flow more smoothly...

I enjoy the group very much too and was really glad to learn you were part of it as well.

Thanks for your compliments on my Italian...I studied at a local language school for about 6 years (it's a little rusty, but I find Anna and the rest of the group really supporting so I trust it'll come back..). I know a little German as well, but it's even rustier -and more difficult to make guesses when I can't find the right word! lol!

Keeping my fingers crossed for your body's visibility!!!
Bea

At 8:28 on April 28, 2010, Graham Davies said…: Beatriz, Have you made contact with Helen Myers (Karelia Kondor in SL)? She is a member of this Ning and she is also learing Italian in SL. She has produced a great little video of her experiences as a language learner in SL:

http://kareliakondor.blip.tv/

Graham

At 4:43 on April 28, 2010, Beatriz Lupiano said…: It was really nice to see you today! I like playing Medusa (already thinking how I'm going to get those snakes and the egg on my head!!) -and the meeting place is so nice (not to mention the group members!).

I need to work on those dancing steps...the disco was fun! (I think I've created a courtsey bow for my medieval character -it exists, I'm just not completely sure it was me who created it, even though I clicked on create...)

Look forward to next week and starting the dialogues

Bea

At 6:26 on April 25, 2010, Beatriz Lupiano said…: Hi Heike,

It just occurred to me -I've joined a group called italianiamo on SL and I had my first meeting with them last week. They mentioned another member called Gwen and I was wondering if it'd be you...(there have been so many coincidences in SL for me so far that it just might be the case)

Bea

At 1:04 on April 10, 2010, Graham Davies said…: I thought you looked great, Beatriz! I was there too (Groovy Winkler). Sometime you must have a chat with Flopsy Bookmite, my RL wife, who is an expert in female fashion. She has over 30 000 items of clothing in her inventory and often wins prizes in fashion competitions in SL. This screenshot in our Photos section shows here in a dress by Lemania called Another Rainy Monday.

http://virtualworldssig.ning.com/photo/flopsy-bookmite-in-the-snow?context=latest

At 0:21 on April 10, 2010, Beatriz Lupiano said…: Thanks!! 5 hours is approximate but pretty much correct :-) It was lots of fun!! (I had trouble learning to take off my leather jacket so once I learned that I started again with the body editing -I met a couple of teachers in the process, so it was also interesting from the social point of view...)

rgds
Beatriz

At 12:03 on April 8, 2010, Beatriz Lupiano said…: Hi, Heike!! I had no idea that was you :-) !! We shared the IATEFL LT-SIG PCE yesterday. And seeing your avatar here inspired me to use mine too (after all, I spent quite some time "beautifying" her!).

Nice to see all the Networks we have in common.

Bea

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