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 ‘teaching’
On Audiences…
Posted: 25th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Second Life Links, teaching, technology, Twitter
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WordGrid
Posted: 18th September 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: free, Second Life Links, teaching, tools, vocabulary
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 [...]
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 [...]
SLanguages 2008 – All Over Bar The Feedback
Posted: 24th May 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: conference, EFL, English, ESL, free, languages, learning, Second Life Links, SLanguages, teaching
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
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 [...]
Cold Quiz
Posted: 3rd November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in Second LifeTags: answers, audio-visual, free, module, questions, quiz, Second Life Links, teaching
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 [...]