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Archive for January, 2009

Guatemala Goes Global: K’iche’ Language Now Taught Online

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

We are launching lessons in K’iche’, which is an indigenous language in Guatemala…

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Scribblar – Another Online Whiteboard

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Scribblar is a great addition to the range of online whiteboards that are now available.  Online whiteboards allow a student and teacher to simultaneously work together on the same surface and it means that each can see what the other is doing.

Scribblar

I would embed a video here to explain how Scribblar works, but amazingly there isn’t one!  So I’ve included a screenshot of my Scribblar whiteboard and you can access it using the button at the bottom of this post.

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3D Virtual Environments in the Classroom

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Edusim3d have combined a classroom smartboard with a 3d virtual world, to really allow schools to have 3D virtual environments in the classroom.

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SLanguages 2009 – Presentation

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The presentation for SLanguages 2009 is ready – it will be a great event and I am looking forward to it already…

SLanguages 2009 Conference – 8&9 May 2009

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SLanguages – Relatively High Survival Rates

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Conferences in virtual worlds are quite the fashion now, but it seems that the choice of world is quite important. The National Science Foundation held a conference in World of Warcraft and saw all its (virtual) attendees killed during the event!

Second Life is a far more peaceful venue for the SLanguages conference – and I’m sure the 2009 event will be just as safe as the last two, where not a single avatar was lost in action.

clipped from www.linuxinsider.com

To bring his point to a fine head, Bainbridge recently conducted a scientific conference in a game world to discuss research in game worlds. Certainly it was the ultimate of demonstrations, virtually speaking. The conference was the first ever held in “World of Warcraft” (”WoW”) and it had its upsides: None of the scientists had to physically travel and none had to buy any additional hardware. But it also had its downsides: Not everyone was familiar with the game; newbie levels limited access to key meeting places in the game world; in-game chat communications require a minimum typing speed of 50wpm; and, newbies are the natural diet for any number of monsters in the game.
Several attendees met their deaths, as in plural, on the way to the various conference dinners, events and meeting places. A few gave up after one or more resurrections. All of the near-300 attendees ended up “dead” at the end of the conference. The recently deceased lauded the success of the entire operation.
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