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IATEFL LT SIG PRE CONFERENCE EVENT

Come and join us live from Harrogate and in Second Life (at AVALON Learning) on Wednesday 7th April for our Pre-Conference Event.

The main focus of the PCE day then will be to consider where we are now in the field of learning technologies and language learning and where we might be going. Have we reached a time when learning technologies are a ‘normalised’ part of our practice, or is there still some way to go? Are there any predictions we can make about the future?

We have asked three people—Stephen Bax, Scott Thornbury and Mark Pegrum—to help us with … Continue Reading

AVALON Learning: Holodeck II Building Session

March 23, 2010 from 3pm to 5pm – AVALON Learning Island

This session is a follow-on of the previous presentation on January 12, 2010 when Klaus Hammermüller of Talkademy presented the newly developed holodeck.

A holodeck provides with a mouseclick an ambiente for language learning which holds great potential for communication in real-time.

It is also a follow-on of the second session on 23 of February, when we learned how to add a script to the objects so that the holodeck generator could rezz them.

During this building session we agreed to continue because it is so much fun and we learned lots, and … Continue Reading