Posts Tagged ‘free’

WordGrid

Posted: 18th September 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Another free vocabulary-based teaching tool… WordGrid is designed for vocabulary revision, or teaching. Fill WordGrid with up to sixteen pictures and a notecard with up to sixteen vocabulary items. Then simply click WordGrid and it will randomise the pictures and rez the words ready for your learners to work with them. Click WordGrid again [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

Second Life Economy

Posted: 16th February 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet Sat down today to work out how much I *might* have made if I’d charged for the tools I currently sell for L$0 on SLEX, ShopOnRez and in-world. Putting a putative price of L$200 on each item (currently US$0.75) I would have made US$2,781 between the 1st October 2007 and the 16th February 2008. [...]

EduCation@EduNation – Session 3

Posted: 13th February 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet   Well, having been too busy to write for a couple of weeks at least I can do a quick posting about our next free educational event in Second Life. Join us on EduNation II on February 29th from 12:30 – 13:30 PST for a session on games in Second Life with Jeremy Koester. [...]

Modern Marketing

Posted: 16th November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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Tweet My colleague and I are off to the UK on Sunday to spend the day on Monday doing some training for the language department of a large publishing company. We’re doing four sessions – three of them look at technology in teaching and training, the fourth looks at marketing and technology and that’s the [...]

Cold Quiz

Posted: 3rd November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second Life
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Tweet One day to go before heading off to Siberia, followed by London and I’m a bit behind on a few things…. I did, however, manage to finish a new audio-visual quiz HUD for SL. The gadget comes in two parts: the first is a copyable ‘listening post’ which can be placed in various locations [...]