Press Releases
Virtual World Language Education Comes of Age: SLanguages Turns 3
Barcelona, Spain, 26 January 2009 - - the “SLanguages” conference will celebrate its 3rd year exploring the use of virtual worlds in language education. The event takes place within the 3D virtual world “Second Life” on 8 – 9 May 2009...
SLanguages 2008: Virtual Conference Explores New Frontiers in Language Learning
Barcelona, Spain, 17 March 2008 - - SLanguages 2008 is a 24-hour multilingual conference to celebrate and investigate the use of 3D virtual worlds for language education. The event will be held in Second Life on 23-24 May 2008...
Conference Description
The SLanguages Conference brings together practitioners and researchers in the field of language education in Second Life for a 24-hour event to celebrate languages and cultures within the 3D virtual world.
What Attendees Said
"SLanguages 2008 represented a high-water mark for Second Life based educational conferences. It was well-organized, well-executed, and highly effective. The presentations were relevant, well-chosen, and provided an excellent representation of where education is and will be in Second Life. SLanguages 2009 is on my calendar already. SLanguages and EduNation rock!" - Chris Surridge, The eLearning Project.
"SLanguages 2008 was even better than last year and showed that language education in virtual worlds has come of age! It was just fantastic to see so many great examples of how virtual worlds are changing the way we learn languages" - Howard Vickers, Avatar Languages.
“Thank you for the "all-in-all" excellent organization of SLanguages 2007!”
“An inspiring event. It was great to see educators from across the globe generously sharing their experience - an illustration in itself of the educational benefits of SL!”
“One day seminars have inherent difficulties in real life: there’s only room for 4/5 sessions so how broad / deep? One dud session can cast a pall over the whole day etc. This held up VERY well. Congrats.”
“An inspiring event. It was great to see educators from across the globe generously sharing their experience - an illustration in itself of the educational benefits of SL!”
“I was excited to be part of this conference. I can't help thinking that, in the future, we'll look back on it as the start (or part of the start) of something important in education.”
“Would love to see this event happen next year...and the next...and the next...;)”
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Contact
Gavin Dudeney
The Consultants-E
c/ Cerámica 54
08035 Barcelona
Spain
gavin.dudeney@theconsultants-e.com
www.theconsultants-e.com
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