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Second Life Best Practices

Fri 25 May
Second Life Best Practices International Conference 2007

Another 24h ed-fest - this time situated entirely within SL. Lots more to ponder on - will ponder elsewhere shortly.

Pic from Jeremy Koester's "outside the box look at immersive environment opportunities in SL." Loads more pictures on the Flickr site.

WiAOC 2007

Fri 18 - Sun 20 May
WiAOC 2007: Webheads in Action Online Convergence

A 3-day 24-hour extravaganza - emerging technologies in education, and in language learning in particular. It had to be good - I installed Windows on my Mac for this! It was good - very good. All sorts of things I'd not seen, heard of or done before. More elsewhere soon.

Virtual worlds, real learning?

Thu 10 May
SL: Virtual Congress Centre on Eduserv Island

I got to the morning session, virtually, of the Eduserve Foundation's Symposium on Second Life. The video, audio & slideshow feeds all worked fine once everything had been set up. The talks were interesting, with lots to follow up (when?). Like at most conferences, it's the milling about in the breaks that counts. Plus the Conference Bag included a t-shirt, which I finally managed to put on after much trial & error at the back of the hall. I'll be wearing it for a bit because I can't remember how to take it off . . .

So this is eLearning?

Wed 9 May
SLN e-Learning Conference

Sussex Learning Network's introduction to their eLearning Project, including a guided tour round Cetlment Island in Second Life. Later I went to the Open University's Moonlight Knights on Rockport Island, for a surreal tour round the facilities, including playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (what else?), disco dancing and barbershop singing. What next?

Emerging Technologies

Fri 27 Apr
Pelham House, Lewes
Foxglove Tree

One-day UoB seminar at Pelham House. I’ve lived here 16 years and didn’t know where it was - had to ask a postie. It turns out to be set back from one of the twittens I rarely go down, with a huge sloping garden at the back - you sometimes wonder what’s there in the spaces between the buildings, don’t you.

I did ‘Second Life - why bother?’ - conclusion: well, maybe, if you can manage to get your clothes on. Lots of other intriguing ideas, most of which I’d never come across. They all ganged up on me and said “you have to blog, you’re no-one unless you blog”, so here I am, too weak to resist.