Graham Davies's Blog – October 2009 Archive (11)

SL meeting on Language and Literature in the English Language Classroom



Forwarded from Graham Stanley, The British Council:



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…

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Two more events: November 09 is beginning to look busy!



Virtual Round Table Conference on Language Learning with Technology, 12-13 Nov 09:

http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/page/conference-1



ICT Show and Tell Day for Teachers of Modern Foreign Languages, 14 Nov 09:…

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A one-day conference on Technology Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning will take place at SOAS, University of London, on 12 November 2009:

http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event53702.html



The focus will be on the following themes in language pedagogy: computer mediated communication; Web 2.0 technologies; mobile learning; and intercultural exchange. It is hoped that the discussions will widen to… Continue

I just found a nice sim in Second Life: Jura, France

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jura/131/106/46



A French-speaking guide showed me around, showing me a wine cellar, a cheese shop, the port and a mock-up of Louis Pasteur's house. There is a Christmas Village there too, complete with ski resort, chair lift and Father Christmas!



Then the guide directed me to a magic chair that took me on a tour of the whole… Continue

Members of the AVALON team are developing a holodeck system that can easily be set up and modified by teachers. See the thread on holodecks in the AVALON Ning:

http://avalon-project.ning.com/forum/topics/is-holodeck-editing-a-future



The EUROCALL/CALICO HQ contains three Horizons holodecks, each of which can be accessed by the teleporter system - start at the Welcome… Continue

Videos of the plenary speakers, their PowerPoint presentations and handouts are now available at the following link:



http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/speakers.php



The conference blog is still active at:

http://virtualeurocall09.blogspot.com



The blog records the impressions of a number of people… Continue

Wow! We have 40 members already. Thanks for joining!

Greetings from the University of Ulster, where I am conducting an evaluation of their multimedia facilities.

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:



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Interesting blog post by Kristie Williamson on using Second Life to learn Chinese:



http://lingkris.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-china-village-language-learning-in.html



I dabbled in Chinese many years ago. I followed a BBC radio course in spoken Mandarin, and I can still remember a bit. More recently I have visited Ling's Chinese City in SL. Using my X-Lang translator, I… Continue

Randall and I have made a few changes to the EUROCALL/CALICO HQ to reflect the seasonal change. It's Autumn/Fall now and Halloween approaches - pumpkins, falling leaves, ghostly figures...

Have a look: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/31/35/22

Just to let you know that a EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG has recently been set up. Members welcomed:

http://eurocallteachereducation.ning.com



Teacher Education is a personal interest of mine. I have been involved in training language teachers to use ICT since the mid-1980s. It was a major activity of mine when I was Director of the Language Centre at Ealing College (later merged into Thames Valley… Continue