April 2010 Blog Posts (4)

I have just created a short video of the EUROCALL HQ Building in Second Life and uploaded it to YouTube. Have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPTRLuT_qc

What do you think? I'm going to create a few more, focusing on holodecks, shared media and the joint EUROCALL/CALICO Resource Centre. I'm using Fraps, which is a modestly priced screen capture package designed for capturing clips of online games.

We've just had the application figures for Autumn 2010 - we've had 231 applicants for the Business Talking course from Linnaeus University in Kalmar for the autumn term.

So Ning's free service is about to be phased out. At present we don't know how much Ning will charge us to maintain our little community. Further news will be announced on 4 May:

http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update-rolling-out-full

Whether we will be able to afford the fees depends on what we will be charged. EUROCALL and CALICO don't have a lot of money to throw around. We…

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The 2nd Virtual Round Table conference, focusing on language learning with technology, will be taking place completely online on Thursday and Friday, 22-23 April 2010. The programme is available here:

http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/events

I am taking part in the following panel discussion on

Friday, 23 April 2010, 12.00 to 13.00 GMT = 13.00 to 14.00 UK Summer Time:

Connected and organised in their quest for…

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