April 2009
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Education Conferences in May that you can attend...
WiAOC 2009: Webheads in Action Online unConvergence “Online Community of Practice of Teachers and Educators Practicing Peace and Professional Development through Web 2.0 and Computer Mediated Communication” SLanguages 2009 “The SLanguages Conference brings together practitioners and researchers in the field of language education in Second Life for a 24-hour event to celebrate...
Apr 30th
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Anna King, Director of Studies at OISE Cambridge, tells us about her first experience with Languagelab.com.
Apr 28th
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No Classes, No Fixed Timetable, Better Results. My Presentation from IMMERSIVE EDUCATION INITIATIVE LONDON SUMMIT
Apr 25th
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Open Cobalt – A Virtual World to Watch →
Currently in Alpha. Features include: p2p architecture - no servers needed hyperlinks between virtual worlds drag and drop import of common file formats collaborative document sharing collaborative web browser sharing Open Cobalt Wikipedia page
Apr 24th
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Apr 21st
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An Extremely Basic Introduction to Virtual Worlds
If you don’ t know what a virtual world is or how it can be used, this is for you. Virtual worlds are just online meeting places Like online chartrooms, skype or msn messenger they let people in different locations communicate in real-time over the Internet. As with the above, communication can be 1:1 or in groups. In a virtual world you can communicate by typing or talking. In...
Apr 19th
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Online Speak & Spell →
My earliest recollection of learning technology is the Texas Instruments Speak & Spell and Speak & Maths in the 80s. This is a great online Emulator of the Speak & Spell. Surprisingly it’s not so different to many web based exercises created today.
Apr 18th
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell announces his radical...
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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IATEFL Q & A with Marc Prensky
Apr 8th
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Virtual Worlds and Content Based Instruction. Slides from my presentation at IATEFL 2009. Live tweets from the event by Graham Stanley (@grahamstanley) at http://ow.ly/1Vxx .
Apr 4th
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20 educators explain how they use Second Life in 20 seconds each. From the IATEFL petcha kutcha last night.
Apr 3rd
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The World's Greatest Business Mind Announced  →
Thanks to Ali
Apr 2nd
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IATEFL Presentations from the Languagelab Team
Jessie and Iffaf - The connection between gaming and instructor-assisted learning through virtual reality This looks at instructor-assisted learning in virtual reality and draws a correlation between the architecture of gaming and a learning environment based on learner autonomy. Intuitive, purpose-built spaces combined with an assessment-based framework support the learning process. This...
Apr 1st
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Apr 1st