No | Date | Description | Attendance |
1 | 27 Jan 09 | Session in Second Life as a part of the Pisa Kick-off meeting | Attended by all project partners and some of our associates not able to attend the Pisa event along with a few interested others. |
2 | 29 April 09 |
Paul Sweeney and Pete MacKichan talking about their experiences of designing courses and teaching in Second Life (Click to see the video) |
Attended by 6 project partners along with 8 visitors. |
3 | 30 April 09 | Tour of AVALON Learning Island (1) | This meeting included project partners and other interested parties. |
4 | 20 May 09 | Tour of AVALON Learning Island (2) | This meeting included project partners and other interested parties. |
5 | 8 July 09 | AVALON Show and Tell with Randall Sadler (CALICO), Nergiz Kern (Second Life teacher) and Graham Davies (EuroCALL) |
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6 | 10 Sep 09 |
Presentation of the AVALON Business English course on AVALON Learning. Members of the wider language learning community were invited to attend and give feedback at the beginning of the piloting process. One of those in attendance wrote a blog post: http://carol-carolrb.blogspot.com/2009/09/pre-business-english-course-tour.html |
Partners P1, P4 and P6 |
7 | 6 Dec 09 | Update of the project for interested teachers | All partners expect for P5 |
8 | 10 Dec 09 | Virtual tourism with by Heike Philp | 2 people |
9 | 21 Dec 09 |
AVALON Gluhwein Party
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10 people |
No | Date | Description | Attendance |
1 | 7 Feb 2010 |
AVALON Learning - guided tour and discussion of project 8am and 8pm - 2x tours |
Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley EVO Session TLVW 2010 25 participants |
2 | 11 Feb 2010 |
AVALON Learning Event: The present and future of language learning in virtual worlds
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Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley Parter 6 LANC Heike Philp 22 participants |
3 | 11 March 2010 |
AVALON Learning Event: European Cities in Second Life Tour to real-life replicas such as virtual Rome, Munich, Cologne, London, Paris, Bucharest, Mont Saint Michel, Inverness, Mykonos, Athens |
Parter 6 LANC Heike Philp 15 participants |
4 | 23 March 2010 |
AVALON Learning: Holodeck II Building Session How to add building a holodeck scene
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Partner 3 TALK Klaus Hammermüller 13 participants |
5 | 7 Apr 2010 |
IATEFL Conference, Harrogate UK
'Web 2.0 - Where are we now?' PCE on Avalon Learning island IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest GROUP Pre-Conference Event
Presentation : Avalon to Shakespeare: Language learning and teaching in virtual worlds Streamed live / video recording made: |
Partner 1 UoM Gary Motteram, Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley, Joe Pereira, Kyle Mawer
30 people in Harrogate and 50 people online on the AVALON Learning island
Partner 7 BritCoun Joe Pereira 30 participants Online audience/ recording 100+ (estimated) |
6 |
23 April 2010 |
Virtual Round Table panel discussion - AVALON teacher training Panel discussion at the Virtual Round Table conference |
Parter 6 LANC Heike Philp Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley, Joe Pereira, Nergiz Kern 26 participants via Adobe Connect / recording 100+ (estimated) |
7 |
20 May 2010
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AVALON Learning Event: How to teach a language in Second Life Click here for a link to the recordings |
Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley, Joe Pereira Partner 1 UoM Gary Motteram 40 participants - region full |
8 |
27 June 2010 |
Social Gathering for Language teachers and their friends
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Helen Myers aka Karelia Kondor |
9 |
27 Jul 2010 and 6 Sept 2010 |
Trip to Mecca (English/ Arabic spoken) http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/trip-to-mecca visit a place you cannot but without becoming Muslim yourself, 1 hour trip, very well received |
12 and 9 attendees |
10 |
28 Jul 2010 |
AVALON Learning Event: Mexican Summer in Second Life For recordings click HERE |
Parter 6 LANC Heike Philp 15 participants |
11 |
4 August 2010 |
French Summer in Arcachon http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/french-summer-in-arcachon Recordings: AVALON Tour I (only in French) |
approx. 20 avatars at both sessions and
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12 |
16 August 2010 |
Turkish intercultural event with Nergiz Kern |
Partner 3 TALK Klaus Hammermüller 5 parts |
13 |
19 August 2010 |
French lessons on Arcachon |
Partner 3 TALK Klaus Hammermüller 7 parts |
14 | 15-16 Oct 2010 |
SLanguages Conference, 2010 including e.g.
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455 attendees over 24 hours: 377 in Second Life, 78 via Adobe Connect. |
15 |
19 Nov 2010 |
Tour of Avalon Learning (in Spanish) by P7 (Brit Coun - Graham Stanley) for Silvia Andreoli and a group of trainee teachers of Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Buenos Aires |
10 attendees - 1 hour tour in Second Life |
16 |
24 Nov 2010 |
A Turkish invitation (English, Turkisch spoken, training Turkisch level A1) http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/a-turkish-invitation-2 (Grundtvig action) |
10 attendees, 1,5 hours |
17 |
26 Nov 2010 (all day) |
INST world conference, various events including cultural heritage visits to different places (different European languages spoken), see conference programe http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/inst-ccks-world-conference example: Berlin 1920 (part of dissimination activity, Grundtvig action) |
25 attendees in average, full day programe |
18 |
1-3 Dec 2010 |
Online EDUCA: 16th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training PCE Event on the 1st of Dec. with presenters from various European projects including AVALON, ST.ART, NIFLAR, Humlab, FORCOM. |
20 attendees in our PCE session which ran throughout the day.
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19
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7 Dez 2010 |
Evening Visit to China, Discussion (Mandarin, English spoken, training Mandarin level A1) http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/evening-visit-to-china (part of the train the teacher activity) |
9 attendees, 1,5 hours |
20 |
9 Dez 2010 |
Italian Late Night Quiz Show (Italian spoken, training level A2) again, better than TV - being one of the candidates http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/italian-quiz-night (Grundtvig action) |
8 attendees, 2 hours show (unfortunately we could not find a convenient time for more attendees, it was very late) |
21 |
13 Dez 2010 |
Open Sesame! (Arabic Night) Arabic and English spoken, training Arabic A1 phantastic dive into a foreign culture, including simple conversation, writing and a reading game http://avalon-project.ning.com/events/open-sesame-arabic-night (part of the train the teacher activity, Grundtvig action)) |
12 attendees, 1,5 hours |
22 |
20 Dez 2010 |
Winter delight on AVALON Learning Recordings and blog: http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/winter-delight-on-avalon |
Parter 6 LANC Heike Philp 24 attendees, 3h |