With apologies for cross-postings ...



Registrations are now open for the three-day conference "New and Emerging
Technologies in ELT" in Chennai (Madras) India.



The conference is jointly organized by IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG and
ELTAI.

It offers the perfect combination of a country  with a rich ancient tradition, a
modern venue, a wide variety of thought-provoking talks, examples of technology
implementation in language teaching, reflections on the current state in
technology use in language learning and hands-on workshops offering the
participants a chance to gain skills in a variety of areas.



Registration for the conference and its social/cultural events are available at
http://ltsig.org.uk



The conference programme should be uploaded soon at http://ltsig.org.uk

In the meantime, here is a taster of the talks and workshops.



Talks on:



Talking to the Digital Natives: Building Connections and Community on Web 2.0

Exploring Wikis for Written Language

Beyond the language classroom: Mobile learning with Podquests

Speaking and Listening Online and at a Distance

Evaluating user responses to students' blogs, wikis, forums

Using mobile technology to teach soft skills in ESL/EFL classrooms

E-learning: The myth and the reality

Using Interactive Whiteboards to Teach English as a foreign language

Fostering Collaborative Reflectivity among Teacher Trainees through Asynchronous
Discussion Forums.

E-assessment as aid to ESL/EFL learners: Planning, Designing, and Managing the
Tools.

A Web-based Audio Reader for Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening

The Role of Teachers and Online Community Networks in Facilitating Social
Interaction

Developing Video-Based Materials for Teacher-Trainers of ESL



Workshops on:



Training Learners for Autonomy in Web-based Listening

Using Wikis in Language Learning and Teaching

From Video Production to Video Blogging

Blogging and Learner Autonomy

Using MOOdle






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Hi everyone, and sorry for cross-posting

BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week' this week is 'Second Lives' by Tim Guest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml

Here are the details:

*Monday 4 - Friday 8 June 2007

Second Lives

*By Tim Guest, abridged by Jane Marshall, read by Paul Panting

A revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass of alternative
life online, where 35 million people around the globe abandon reality for
a virtual life.

In these computer-generated worlds, players can create a new self: with the
click of a mouse they select eye colour, face shape, height, even wings.

They can buy virtual land and build houses on it, go shopping in virtual
malls and buy virtual haute couture, make and sell works of art, earn
virtual money and take part in a virtual marriages.

Regards,

Graham Stanley (SL: Baldric Commons)
http://blog-efl.blogspot.com


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Hi everyone, and sorry for cross-posting

Tomorrow (Friday May 25th) is the Second Life Best Practice in Education
Conference, which is shaping up to be something quite special - apart from
the presentations, there is a lot of activity going on (there are around a
hundred booths/vendors at the NMC Outreach sim, for example)

Details of presentations are here:
http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/PresentationSchedule


I'll be presenting with my colleague Kyle Mawer, about the Teen Grid project
we're working on for the British Council, and we'll be going into some
detail about some of the ways we'll be using using Second Life for language
learning:

"ESL, Second Life and Teenagers : Learner Autonomy for the Digital Natives"
Friday 25th May @ 04.00 SL time (11.00 GMT)
<http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/PresentationSchedule>
I'll also be streaming the presentation through Sandbox A at Worldbridges,
and asking people with questions to join in the Skype conference (Skype
name: eflbridges) - it'll be recorded and available as a podcast later if
you can't make it.

Hope to see some of you there!

Graham

Graham Stanley


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Thanks to everyone who attended our presentation at Learning Times
yesterday, as part of the WiAOC2007

I think it went well apart from a few initial hiccups - just shows you
that you can prepare as much as you like, but you can never prepare
for the unexpected!

- when we'd uploaded the images for the presentation, we found that if
you use anything other than Safari, they are huge.

- We had 80 slides, and exceeded the Elluminate maximum. So, as we got
near the end of the uploaded slides, we had to delete some to make space

- We were able to view the slides fine when they were uploaded, but
just as we started, the screen section of Elluminate went blank for us
and we couldn't see any of the slides. Fortunately our audience could!
It did make it difficult speaking about the slides without being able
to see them, and I had to switch between my Powerpoint and the
Elluminate interface, which made things a little awkward.

- Then, just after Vance Stevens introduced us, my (bluetooth)
headphones cut out, so I had to scramble for another pair

We were exhausted when it was finally over!

Details of this presentation and the other WiAOC recordings are here:
  http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=1563545

You will need to become a member of Learning Times to be able to watch
them (it's free and easy to do)

All the best,

Graham

Graham Stanley
http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

Hi everyone,

I'll be presenting this weekend with Kyle Mawer at the Webheads in
Action Online Convergence (WiAOC 2007) on Friday at 11.01 GMT.

Details are here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/158

The conference promises to be something special, with three days of
(almost) non-stop activities:

Here's what Vance Stevens has to say about the conference itself:

"The theme this year is CONNECT: Conversations on Networking,
Education, Communities, and Technology, and though not specifically
mentioned in the theme, many members of the Webheads community of
practice, http://webheads.info, are practitioners in language
learning.

This is the second time our community has hosted a free online
conference. You can replay the first one at http://2005.wiaoc.org

This year we kick off in a pre-show event at 22:00 GMT May 17, with
the start of a Webcastathon hosted by http://www.worldbridges.net.
The conference itself starts at midnight GMT May 18 (evening of May
17 in the USA) with a keynote speech by Leigh Blackall and continues
for three days with more talks by Stephen Downes, George Siemens,
Etienne Wenger, Robin Good, Barbara Ganley, Teemu Leinonen, and many
other presenters whom you can see on the schedule at
http://schedule.wiaoc.org.

To attend the conference you can register for free at
http://www.webheadsinaction.org and use the calendar there or the
schedule link above, or our online help pages, to work out how to
access the presentations and make comments or join forums. The will
be a voice stream of most events available at
http://www.webheadsinaction.org , as well a live chatroom for use
during the conference, and we hope to have someone live online
available to assist you at any time during the conference at
http://www.tappedin.org

We look forward to your joining us May 17/18-20 for this unique
adventure in online professional development. We hope it will be
educational and F.U.N.

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*****  2nd CALL FOR PAPERS   - Deadline extended to 6th May,
2007  ******


New and Emerging Technologies in ELT

Loyola College,
Chennai (Madras), India, August 3 – 5 , 2007

This will be a three-day conference organized by ELTAI and
the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG. The event will host a
variety of practical and theoretical presentations centering
on the conference’s theme of new and emerging
technologies. The talks and workshops will cater both to
experienced and novice teacher-users of learning
technologies.

Papers addressing a variety of aspects in the application
and research of New and Emerging Technologies in language
teaching and learning will be considered. Main area of
interest to the conference is Web 2.0 and its effects on the
learning and teaching of languages. Other proposals which
are related to the general area of learning technologies
will also be considered. Sample areas of interest to the
conference are:

podcast and vodcast technology  
implementation of CMC technologies
 issues in teacher and learner training  
blogs and wikis
 research on implementation and effectiveness of
Learning Technologies
                 the use of Virtual Learning
Environments   Virtual Worlds


CONFIRMED PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

Prof James Coleman, Open University, UK
“Eeyore and the pixel dropout: what’s wrong with
technology-enhanced language learning?”

Phil Hubbard, Stanford University, USA
“Learner Training: a central issue for CALL”

Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK
& Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute,
Cyprus
“Are language teachers fit for Web 6.0?”

Michael Coghlan,  e-Learning Consultant, Australia
“Language learning in a connected world”

For more information check the event’s website at:
http://www.ltsig.org.uk/

Is it just me, or is everyone receiving in duplicate?



Karen



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Hi Tom,

There's a timetable published in SL of the live events that will be
available, etc. There are also 2 chats tomorrow, which I'm assuming will be
in  SL - However, best ask in the IATEFL Moodle for details rather than on
this mailing list

Graham


>Yes, if and when... No one seems to have the details of WHEN in SL. Can
anyone supply them, ie actual real world times?

>(Don't you just hate it when you go somewhere apparently "real cool" in SL
and it's absolutely as dead as everywhere else...????)

>Tom


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Yes, if and when... No one seems to have the details of WHEN in SL. Can anyone
supply them, ie actual real world times?

(Don't you just hate it when you go somewhere apparently "real cool" in SL and
it's absolutely as dead as everywhere else...????)

Tom

Graham Stanley <blogefl@...> wrote:                                  Hi
everyone,

  Next week sees the IATEFL conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.

  There will be all sorts of exciting online activity going on for those who
  can't attend, including lots of Second Life Action

  See you there?

  Graham

  _ _ _ _ _ _

  41st IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition
  Aberdeen 18th - 22nd April, 2007
  IATEFL / British Council Aberdeen Online

  For this year's IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition in
  Aberdeen, IATEFL and the British Council are working
  together to enable teacher audiences worldwide to
  participate via the internet and get a taste of what happens
  over the five days of the annual IATEFL conference.

  Our interactive web coverage will include:

  - video and audio recordings of some of the presentations
  and workshops
  - interviews with presenters and delegates
  - text reports from the event via a dedicated website
  - online special interest forums running alongside the main
  conference programme
  - daily blogs from roving reporters supported by IATEFL and
  the British Council ELTeCS Scheme

  Registration and participation is open to all, starting
  Wednesday 11th April. For more details on how to get
  started, visit:
  http://www.teaching english.org. uk/iatefl2007

  The Aberdeen Online event will also be represented in Second
  Life with a daily video and audio summary, a photo gallery,
  updates and discussions. For more information, contact
  Dudeney Ge in-world or go to EduNation 179,40,22.

  We look forward to meeting you online.

  You are receiving this message because you are a member of the IATEFL
  Learning Technologies SIG.
  Yahoo! Groups Links

  --
  Graham Stanley
  http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

  "Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side
  lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's
  work an achievement for eternity..." (Gabriel Heatter)

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Doris

I think the URL is missing an 's' - I think it should be blospot not
blogpot - i.e. http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

Best

Nick

dorissoares wrote:
>
> Hi Graham,
> I´ve just watched the video you posted in teacher tube and when I tried to
> enter your ESL blog
>
> http://blog-efl.blogpot.com/ <http://blog-efl.blogpot.com/>
>
> I got a biblical site instead (????)
> Is your blog still active?
>
> Doris
> -
>
> .
>
>

Hi Graham,
I´ve just watched the video you posted in teacher tube and when I tried to
enter your ESL blog

http://blog-efl.blogpot.com/

I got a biblical site instead (????)
Is your blog still active?

Doris
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De: gamelearning@... [mailto:gamelearning@...]
Em nome de Graham Stanley
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 12 de abril de 2007 08:38
Para: gamelearning@...
Assunto: Re: [gamelearning] Using World of Warcraft to teach English?

Hi Tom,

I've played some at Boracay (Nick Noakes' island) and other places.

If you can make it, this Saturday could be a good time to play games in SL:

http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/chris/?p=227
<http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/chris/?p=227>

I'll be checking it out

Graham

>Or maybe it's a question of making SL more like WoW:
>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/03/onders_game_the.html
<http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/03/onders_game_the.html>

>And somehow incorporating lots of language input and output into it...

>Has any played (proper!) games in SL...?

>Tom

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Hi Tom,

I've played some at Boracay (Nick Noakes' island) and other places.

If you can make it, this Saturday could be a good time to play games in SL:

http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/chris/?p=227

I'll be checking it out

Graham



>Or maybe it's a question of making SL more like WoW:
>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/03/onders_game_the.html

>And somehow incorporating lots of language input and output into it...

>Has any played (proper!) games in SL...?

>Tom


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Hi everyone,

Next week sees the IATEFL conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.

There will be all sorts of exciting online activity going on for those who
can't attend, including lots of Second Life Action

See you there?

Graham

_ _ _ _ _ _


41st IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition
Aberdeen 18th - 22nd April, 2007
IATEFL / British Council Aberdeen Online

For this year's IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition in
Aberdeen, IATEFL and the British Council are working
together to enable teacher audiences worldwide to
participate via the internet and get a taste of what happens
over the five days of the annual IATEFL conference.

Our interactive web coverage will include:

- video and audio recordings of some of the presentations
and workshops
- interviews with presenters and delegates
- text reports from the event via a dedicated website
- online special interest forums running alongside the main
conference programme
- daily blogs from roving reporters supported by IATEFL and
the British Council ELTeCS Scheme

Registration and participation is open to all, starting
Wednesday 11th April. For more details on how to get
started, visit:
http://www.teaching english.org. uk/iatefl2007

The Aberdeen Online event will also be represented in Second
Life with a daily video and audio summary, a photo gallery,
updates and discussions. For more information, contact
Dudeney Ge in-world or go to EduNation 179,40,22.

We look forward to meeting you online.






You are receiving this message because you are a member of the IATEFL
Learning Technologies SIG.
Yahoo! Groups Links





--
Graham Stanley
http://blog-efl.blogspot.com

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side
lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's
work an achievement for eternity..." (Gabriel Heatter)


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Or maybe it's a question of making SL more like WoW:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/03/onders_game_the.html

And somehow incorporating lots of language input and output into it...

Has any played (proper!) games in SL...?

Tom

Tom Walton <tomdoliveira@...> wrote:                                 
Interesting! You've got to like that sort of game, I suppose, and the
"confidence thing" is probably going to be much bigger than the actual (surely
limited amount of) language they are going to learn.

  But WoW is surely SO much more exciting than Second Life ,-)! The "win/win
thing"... You actually do have a point, and some winners, not like in SL.

  (The Warcraft boardgame is also one you could use in a F2F classroom....)

  Tom

  Graham Stanley <blogefl@...> wrote:                                 
Thanks to Gavin Dudeney for sharing this - sounds like a very promising
   experiment

   http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

   Here are some choice quotes:

   "All my students were getting up at three o'clock in the morning, putting on
   their headsets and chatting with these 12 year-olds in China. The Chinese
   kids were berserk about it. The teachers were saying it was their favorite
   class. It was really a win/win thing."

   "Some of them were really starting to sound like Americans. A lot of time it
   was more a confidence thing than a language thing. Also, they're getting
   conversational English they wouldn't get in a normal class, more authentic
   English, with phrases they wouldn't get in textbooks."

   Graham

   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
   From: Gavin Dudeney <gavin.dudeney@...>
   Date: Apr 9, 2007 10:35 PM
   Subject: Not sure if you've seen this...
   To: Graham Stanley <blogefl@...>

   http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

   Might be good for your talk....

   G

   *Gavin Dudeney - Project Director, The Consultants-E*
   c/ Ceramica 54, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
   Tel: +34 93 427 4240 | +44 20 7193 0770
   http://www.theconsultants-e.com

   Winners, 2007 British Council ELTON awards - http://tinyurl.com/3e2c54
   Owners of the Second Life sim EduNation - http://tinyurl.com/yehbto
   Sponsors of the 2006 UK Moodle Conference - http://www.moodlemoot.org

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Interesting! You've got to like that sort of game, I suppose, and the
"confidence thing" is probably going to be much bigger than the actual (surely
limited amount of) language they are going to learn.

But WoW is surely SO much more exciting than Second Life ,-)! The "win/win
thing"... You actually do have a point, and some winners, not like in SL.

(The Warcraft boardgame is also one you could use in a F2F classroom....)

Tom

Graham Stanley <blogefl@...> wrote:                                 
Thanks to Gavin Dudeney for sharing this - sounds like a very promising
  experiment

  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

  Here are some choice quotes:

  "All my students were getting up at three o'clock in the morning, putting on
  their headsets and chatting with these 12 year-olds in China. The Chinese
  kids were berserk about it. The teachers were saying it was their favorite
  class. It was really a win/win thing."

  "Some of them were really starting to sound like Americans. A lot of time it
  was more a confidence thing than a language thing. Also, they're getting
  conversational English they wouldn't get in a normal class, more authentic
  English, with phrases they wouldn't get in textbooks."

  Graham

  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
  From: Gavin Dudeney <gavin.dudeney@...>
  Date: Apr 9, 2007 10:35 PM
  Subject: Not sure if you've seen this...
  To: Graham Stanley <blogefl@...>

  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

  Might be good for your talk....

  G

  *Gavin Dudeney - Project Director, The Consultants-E*
  c/ Ceramica 54, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
  Tel: +34 93 427 4240 | +44 20 7193 0770
  http://www.theconsultants-e.com

  Winners, 2007 British Council ELTON awards - http://tinyurl.com/3e2c54
  Owners of the Second Life sim EduNation - http://tinyurl.com/yehbto
  Sponsors of the 2006 UK Moodle Conference - http://www.moodlemoot.org

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Thanks to Gavin Dudeney for sharing this - sounds like a very promising
experiment

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

Here are some choice quotes:

"All my students were getting up at three o'clock in the morning, putting on
their headsets and chatting with these 12 year-olds in China. The Chinese
kids were berserk about it. The teachers were saying it was their favorite
class. It was really a win/win thing."

"Some of them were really starting to sound like Americans. A lot of time it
was more a confidence thing than a language thing. Also, they're getting
conversational English they wouldn't get in a normal class, more authentic
English, with phrases they wouldn't get in textbooks."

Graham


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gavin Dudeney <gavin.dudeney@...>
Date: Apr 9, 2007 10:35 PM
Subject: Not sure if you've seen this...
To: Graham Stanley <blogefl@...>

  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13341

Might be good for your talk....

G


*Gavin Dudeney - Project Director, The Consultants-E*
c/ Ceramica 54, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 427 4240 | +44 20 7193 0770
http://www.theconsultants-e.com

Winners, 2007 British Council ELTON awards - http://tinyurl.com/3e2c54
Owners of the Second Life sim EduNation - http://tinyurl.com/yehbto
Sponsors of the 2006 UK Moodle Conference - http://www.moodlemoot.org


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Hi everyone,

it looks like there's going to be a lot of language learning activity going
on soon in Second Life:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18510/page1/

LanguageLab.com has a 21 sim island, where they'll be teaching students
English and Spanish (to start off with) in the adult grid, and the British
Council island will be opening soon too in the Teen Grid.

All of this and the promised voice-integration system mean that it's going
to be a very interesting time in SL for language learning

Graham


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.... apologies for cross postings ....


***CALL for PAPERS***

Conference:  "New and Emerging Technologies in ELT"

Dates:  3- 5 August, 2007
Venue: Loyolla College, Chennai, India
Deadline for proposals: 20th April, 2007

A conference organized by the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG and ELTAI
(English Language Teachers' Association of India).
The conference will host a variety of practical and theoretical presentations
centering on the conference's theme of new and emerging technologies. The talks
and workshops will cater both to experienced and novice teacher-users of
learning technologies.



Papers addressing a variety of aspects in the application and research of New
and Emerging Technologies in language teaching and learning will be considered.
Main area of interest to the conference is Web 2.0 and its effects on the
learning and teaching of languages. Other proposals which are related to the
general area of learning technologies will also be considered. Sample areas of
interest to the conference are:

  Fpodcast and vodcast technology

F implementation of CMC technologies

F issues in teacher and learner training

F blogs and wikis

F research on implementation and effectiveness of Learning Technologies

F the use of Virtual Learning Environments

F Virtual Worlds





CONFIRMED PLENARY PRESENTATIONS


Prof James Coleman, Open University, UK

"Eeyore and the pixel dropout: what's wrong with technology-enhanced language
learning?"



Phil Hubbard, Stanford University, USA

"Learner Training: a central issue for CALL"



Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK

& Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Cyprus

"Are language teachers fit for Web 6.0?"



Michael Coghlan,  e-Learning Consultant, Australia

"Language learning in a connected world"





More information at:   http://www.ltsig.org.uk/






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Hi everyone,

The BBC has an interesting report on a panel discussion about virtual worlds
and MMOs in general:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6431207.stm

Here are some choice quotes :

*"Big media firms are rushing to copy the success of online games like World
of Warcraft, a conference has been told."*

"The panel also predicted that non-gaming MMOs such as Second Life would be
prevalent in the short term."

  "This medium is going to destroy TV - and it's going to happen in short
term."

"It will be really hard to tell what is and what isn't an MMO. There will be
a lot of experiments in convergence between social networking and MMOs."

"Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will
look like a dinosaur."

Food for thought,

Graham

Graham Stanley
http://blog-efl.blogspot.com


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Hi everyone,

Sorry for cross-posting

Did you ever wonder what really went on inside that mouse we're always
using?

Here's the answer:

http://www.1-click.jp/

Now that EVO 2007 has finished, I think they'll be thankful!

Enjoy!

Graham


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hi!

I'm at Edunation Hut....has the party already finished? see nobody
inside...pity!

See you round!

alicia
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         Title:   Farewell Party - Second Life

         Date:   Sunday 25 February 2007
         Time:   17:00 - 20:00
         Location:   Second Life - Edunation Webheads Hut
         Notes:   Join the EVO2007 Second Life Farewell Party at the Webheads Hut
in Edunation on
         Sunday 25th February from 17.00 GMT:
         http://timeanddate.com/s/b04- See the wiki for details.


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Dear Moderators,

I just want to thank you for all the things you've done because in this game of
life you've helped me get my start.
What a great journey!!!
LOL

Jennifer from Argentina



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Hi everyone

The dates/times on the last email were wrong - here is the corrected
version:

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Hi everyone,

This is it - the final week of EVO2007.

Our final synchronous session will be on Saturday 24th February at 16.00 GMT
:
http://timeanddate.com/s/b03 <http://timeanddate.com/s/b00>

This will be a joint meeting with the Open Webpublishing EVO group.

Our special guests will be some of Alice Barr's students, who will be
talking to us about their experience of gaming, World of Warcraft, etc. We
will be using Flash Meeting for this (see details below) - plug in your
webcam if you have one!

We'll also be having our EVO2007 Second Life Farewell Party at the Webheads
Hut in Edunation on
Sunday 25th February from 17.00 GMT:
http://timeanddate.com/s/b04 <http://timeanddate.com/s/b01>- See the wiki
for details.


Hope to see some of you there!

Regards,

Graham


Please find below the Flash Meeting details below
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A booking has been made for 24-Feb-07 at 16:00 (GMT +0000) and lasting 119
minutes.

Go to the following address for full details and to access the event:
http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/69124d-7458

Although guest entry is available into the meeting, attendees who do not
already have an account may wish to create one prior to the meeting so that
they can Sign In to the meeting and have access to all the meetings features
etc. A link to create a Sign In account is available via the meeting web
page.

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THIS MEETING IS SET TO BE RECORDED

Once the meeting has been completed the replay and minutes of the meeting
can be accessed using the address above i.e the url used to access the live
meeting.

Please note: The replay of this meeting will be publically available and
will, for instance, be listed on the public replays web page
http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/public/all/

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For more details regarding FlashMeeting and terms of use visit the project
website at:
http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk


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