Tweet There’s an interesting phenomenon which has been unfolding in the ELT world in the past few months, perhaps since the end of last year, and that is the rush of ‘bigger names’ (and you can measure that in any way you want) to enagage with their audiences by setting up websites, starting blogs and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Second Life Links’
On Audiences…
Posted: 25th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Second Life Links, teaching, technology, Twitter
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Artificial Dissemination
Posted: 11th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Dennis Newson, DOGME, ELT, Luke Meddings, Scott Thornbury, Second Life Links
Tweet There was an interesting meet-up in Second Life earlier this evening, courtesy of Dennis Newson, in which Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings ventured in-world for a chat about DOGME ELT and their new book ‘Teaching Unplugged‘. Joined by numerous fans and interested people (Jeremy Harmer‘s avatar also came along), we chatted for about ninety [...]
Second Life Roundtable
Posted: 26th June 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: birthday, celebrations, languages, learning, roundtable, Second Life Links, teaching
Tweet As part of the fifth birthday celebrations in Second Life, I’ve been asked by the folks at Linden Lab to coordinate a roundtable on language learning and teaching n Second Life. Here are the details: Language Learning & Teaching in SL: a roundtable with… Dudeney Ge (Director, EduNation) Iffaf Ling (Teacher Trainer, LanguageLab) Head [...]
Big in Japan
Posted: 5th June 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: conference, Japan, Kyoto, Naguya, plenary, Second Life Links, Tokyo
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 [...]
EduCation@EduNation V
Posted: 13th May 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: education, EduNation, free, Second Life Links, seminar
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 [ update ]
Posted: 24th March 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: English, Harmer, Jeremy, Second Life Links, Teach
Tweet The next session in our monthly seminars for teachers (EduCation@EduNation) will take place next Sunday 30th March at 12:00 PST (Second Life Time), 19:00 UTC or 21:00 CET. The session is entitled “Watching Teachers Watch Themselves” and will be led in-world by Dirk Beatty. Many of you will not know Dirk, but if you’re [...]
Twinity Beta
Posted: 19th March 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: building, MUVE, scripting, Second Life Links, Twinity, virtual world
Tweet I finally got my beta application for Twinity approved and gave it a whirl earlier tonight. First, it’s a whacking big download compared to Second Life and then, after install, it downloads updates which are similarly huge. Question one, therefore, is why can’t they distribute an up-to-date installation? It finally installed, updated and I [...]
Knee-deep in Events
Posted: 4th March 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: British Council, conference, events, free, IATEFL, Japan, London, Second Life Links, SLanguages, Wireless Ready
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 [...]
EduCation@EduNation – Session 3
Posted: 13th February 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: educational, free, games, Second Life Links
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. [...]
Independence Day
Posted: 16th January 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: database, enrolment, management, MySQL, PHP, Second Life Links
Tweet Finally finished scripting a set of tools which sees our three sims independent of any out-world scripts on other people’s servers. So we now have our own podcasting, blog and video tools and won’t have the problems we have experienced sometimes with servers going down. Basically, back in control. I even managed a few [...]
Still SMILing
Posted: 3rd January 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: freeware, image, Image Viewer, lsl, PHP, Second Life Links, SMIL, web
Tweet Had another go at the PHP and LSL code this morning, working with a hack of a script by Bucky Barkley which was originally designed to provide links from a notecard. Now my Web Image Viewer takes image titles and image links from a notecard and displays a user-selectable menu of image names. Once [...]
SMILing
Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: images, lsl, PHP, Second Life Links, SMIL, viewer, web
Tweet Fed up with paying to upload textures into SL, and especially fed up with finding photos on the Net that I’d like to use, then having to download, resize and then upload them to SL (and pay), I decided to write a little app that would drag images into SL for me from the [...]
EduCation@EduNation
Posted: 1st December 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: course, education, EduNation, Second Life Links, teaching, tools, workshop
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 [...]
Snow Voice
Posted: 23rd November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: cold, conference, cough, Milan, Oxford, Second Life Links, snow, voice
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 [...]
Virtual Real Estate
Posted: 14th November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in General, Second LifeTags: audio-visual, London, quiz, Second Life Links, Siberia, TreasureHUD
Tweet I’ve just finished sorting out an arrangement with a European education organisation to take some space on EduNation III island, and it suddenly hit me that I never imagined myself being a virtual real estate dealer in my career. How times have changed (again) in the past year or so. Our Second Life existence [...]