Posts Tagged ‘education’

Facts Chance

Posted: 12th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet At the IATEFL Annual Conference in Cardiff, during which I was speaking on digital literacies and games in education, I made a rather small throwaway remark about how I didn’t bother remembering facts such as the names of the wives of Henry VIII anymore because, quite frankly, my brain only had so much room [...]

New SL Tools

Posted: 31st August 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet This week, in the dead of night when I should have been sleeping, I knocked out three new free teaching tools which all work on the same principle, but which I hope will have individual uses beyond the ones my feebly tired brain has been able to come up with.. WordRezz was a favour [...]

EduCation@EduNation V

Posted: 13th May 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Corwin Carillon, Self-directed Team Learning in Virtual Worlds Saturday May 17th 2008 at 15:30 – 16:30 PDT Is self-directed learning something you are passionate about? Does self-directed team learning in virtual worlds grab your imagination? Virtual worlds as learning sites provide a number of potentially rich learning opportunities for students. One of these is [...]

EduCation@EduNation IV

Posted: 4th March 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Just a quick note… our fourth session in the EduCation@EduNation series will feature ELT author Jeremy Harmer and will take place this month. More information on the series and the archive on our website…

EduCation@EduNation

Posted: 1st December 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Best laid plans of mice and men, and all that. The original announcement that went out for the series of educator seminars on EduNation III had the right SL time, but the wrong UTC/GMT time. I only noticed that this morning, about seven hours before the seminar was due to take place. So I [...]

Not Twittering

Posted: 15th October 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet So, I got WordPress installed fine, a couple of plugins and a redesigned theme and everything seems to be working well. WordPress has changed significantly since I last played with it quite a while ago and has all sorts of options that I don’t really have the time or the inclination to find out [...]

Finally Succumbed…

Posted: 15th October 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet So I’ve finally succumbed to writing a blog after quite some years of simply reading others. Being short for time most of the time I’ve been lazy enough to read a large collection of excellent blogs on a daily basis, contenting myself with the thought that they were doing a better job than I [...]