Posts Tagged ‘conference’

SLanguages 2009 – Deadline

Posted: 5th April 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Just a reminder that the deadline for proposals is Friday April 10th 2009. More on the conference here: http://www.theconsultants-e.com/edunation/SLanguages2009.asp

Big in Japan

Posted: 5th June 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet Which a lot of things are – tower blocks, transport systems, pavilions – you name it! I managed to keep my eyes open for six days, despite the 24-hour trip each way via London and had a great time with some fantastic people and some totally wonderful food (you can’t get proper sushi and [...]

Tweet This is a short one after almost 36 hours awake and the 24 hours of fun that was SLanguages 2008. I hope to have time to reflect once I’ve had a sleep, but if you were there and you have ten minutes, please feel free to pass by the short feedback questionnaire on Survey [...]

SLanguages 2008

Posted: 21st May 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Everything is now set for Slanguages 2008… over 25 speakers, over 300 people registered, two island, four venues and a great potential for mayhem. Hopefully Second Life will behave for 24 hours. If you want to come, take a look at the website and sign up. Many thanks to Howard Vickers (Howie Yoshikawa in [...]

IATEFL / British Council Exeter Online

Posted: 27th March 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet The British Council and IATEFL are pleased to announce the official launch of the Exeter Online website in the run up to the IATEFL Annual Conference in Exeter, 7th – 11th April 2008. The Exeter Online site allows remote participants to take part in one of the world’s biggest ELT conferences through a variety [...]

Tweet So suddenly I’m knee-deep in organising events (virtual and real) or going to speak at them (real) – some connected with, and in, Second Life, and a few – mercifully – in real life. First up is a last-minute invitation to speak at a conference entitled ‘Intercultural Dialogue’, organised by the European Language Network [...]

Snow Voice

Posted: 23rd November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet It was snowing when I flew into Luton on Sunday night, freezing – and the car I’d booked kept me waiting outside for ten minutes, so I was cold and annoyed by the time I got in the car. Then things just got worse…. the driver spoke hardly any English apart from the obligatory [...]

OMG Omsk

Posted: 3rd November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet So, I’m going back to Siberia. This is my third visit to Russia in the last twelve months and my passport is now laden with a lot of one-page Russian visas and is getting heavy and tired… luckily it runs out this time next year. The weather there is a bracing minimum of -3 [...]

Travel Woes…

Posted: 17th October 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet November is shaping up to be a complicated month in terms of work and travel, with presentations at conferences in Saudi Arabia, Siberia, the UK and Italy. In between that I’ve also got to keep up with work, and go to Oxford to do some training for a publishing company. That means November is [...]