Avatar Languages Blog

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.

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

The range of 3D virtual options is getting wider by the week and many of them are browser-based, which makes it much more accessible than Second Life or Twinity, where the 3D environments are accessed via separate programs. 3dxplorer is another browser-based solution…

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I’m really exited to see another online whiteboard – and better still to see that it is browser based. You can have a go at using Dabbleboard online (www.dabbleboard.com) or watch their video below.

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at the new 3D virtual environment “Exit Reality” and seeing how it can be used to enhance language learning.

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Two months ago I wrote about a couple of projects to move avatars using hand and body guestures. Well, now Second Life avatars can be controlled by just moving your body and hands. As this YouTube video below shows, the 3D webcam from 3DV Systems has been connected to the 3D virtual world Second Life so that your avatar’s movements are made purely by moving your body (no need for mouse and keyboard).

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Avatar Languages isn’t the only school to use Google Docs – The Guardian newspaper reports today that many UK schools and universities are starting to use free services from Google to enable virtual learning.

This video below (from Google themselves) explains how Google Docs works…

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