Following our meeting on the 16th, we have now brought together our resources with the SLExperiments group. Visit and join our new group of the AVALON Ning. The next event will be on 4th March at 19.00 GMT and will be a tour led by Edith Paillat. We don’t know where we are going yet, but all will be revealed if you come along :-).

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AVALON Language Teacher Training Course in Second Life: Different Sides of a 3D World

Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano and Zeynep Onat-Stelma

28 January 2011

In this session we will talk about our experiences on a Language Teacher Training course in Second Life designed as part of the AVALON project (http://avalon-project.ning.com/). We take two perspectives: 

a) that of a tutor (teacher trainer) on the course, and b) that of a teacher participating in the course. From the tutor’s perspective, the session looks at how the pedagogical activities, as they played out in Second Life, represented appropriate and/or ‘effective’ responses to the course aims. From the teacher … Continue Reading

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The AVALON team working along with colleagues from the NIFLAR, ST.ART and AVATAR projects conducted a full day PCE — ‘Online pedagogies in practice’ at Online EDUCA. For more details of the event see the Online EDUCA website.

The new AVALON course Italian for Beginners – Alzati e cammina! starts on 12th July. It will take place every Monday and Thursday evening from 21.00 CET to 22.30 CET on the Island of Avalon Learning in Second Life. See more details here in our Ning.

Time: May 20, 2010 from 1pm to 2pm (UK time; 2-3 CET)

Location: AVALON Learning island. A discussion on adapting courses in Second Life

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