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NIFLAR at Online Educa Berlin
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Aug 23, 2010Our presentation proposal: Social Interaction Through Videocommunication and Virtual Worlds: An Added Value for Education has been accepted by the scientific commission of one of the most prestiogious congresses on TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning): Online Educa Berlin , where we will be presenting the project results in December. read more ...
Niflar at Antwerp CALL 2010
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Aug 23, 2010The experiences with NIFLAR were presented on the 18th of August at the International Antwerp CALL Congress 2010. The presentation Rick de Graaff, Sterre Krooshof and myself gave and which had been prepared in close collaboration with Huub van den Bergh and Silvia Canto, was elected as selected plenary. The slidepresentation: "Native... read more ...
Whisper ? New Voice Solution for OpenSim
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Aug 22, 2010Good news for our NIFLAR OpenSim region: more options become available to create Voice-enabled SIMS. Recently vComm Solutions of Switzerland released Whispe r, a high quality voice solution for OpenSim based on the popular Mumble open source VoIP client. … read more ...
Upgrading NIFLAR OpenSim Region
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Aug 16, 2010The NIFLAR team is currently evaluating the first versions of the first two of its planned four SIMS: Valencia city and Asterix Village. More info on the design principles for the Asterix village in an earlier blogpost. … read more ...
Mexican Summer in Second Life
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Jul 28, 2010Just passing on Heike Philp's invitation the AVALON Learning Event 'Mexican Summer in Second Life' on Virtual Round Table. Come join us for a Second Life tour as part of the AVALON Learning events series. We meet in SL at 7pm GMT and if you do not have an avatar, you can watch on in Adobe ConnectPro. Time: July 28, 2010 from 7pm... read more ...
New edition NIFLAR Project site launched
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Jul 7, 2010The NIFLAR project site was recently redesigned. There were a number of reasons for this, such as optimising the visibility of the growing number of project results and deliverables. And connecting the project's internal and external workspaces. Or combining the various channels the project exploits for dissemination purposes, e.g.... read more ...
NIFLAR at Online Educa Berlin
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Jul 5, 2010Glad to hear that the proposal for a pre-conference workshop NIFLAR co-submitted with a number of partners of the EUROversity consortium was accepted by the scientific committee of ONLINE EDUCA Berlin 2011 . Challenge now is to work out a way to match the busin… read more ...
NIFLAR at Leraar24
Posted by Rick de Graaff on Jun 28, 2010The NIFLAR videocommunication experiences in secondary education have been reported at www.leraar24.nl , a good practice site for teachers in Dutch primary and secondary education. See http://www.leraar24.nl/video/1512/videoconferentie-vreemde-taal This good practice reports on the experiences of teacher and pupils at the... read more ...
Follow up Project in Second Life ? experience report
Posted by silvia canto on Jun 22, 2010From February to April 2010 twenty one students from the universities of Utrecht and Valencia participated in the follow up project in Second Life. The project was integrated in the university of Utrecht as a blended learning experience in the first year Spanish language course (TV3) at B1 proficiency level. This Second Life group... read more ...
NIFLAR events in the coming months!
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Jun 18, 2010The NIFLAR team will be presenting experiences and results in key international congresses. We hope to meet you there and share experiences with you! Call Antwerp 2010 (18-20 August 2010): Motivation and beyond . On the 18 th from 11.15 to 12.00 we will present experiences about motivational issues in NIFLAR. Eurocall... read more ...
Presentatie NIFLAR op de studiedag Groningen
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Jun 18, 2010Hierbij de link naar de presentatie die Mabelle en Ik op de studiedag " ICT en onderwijs in the Humaniora " op 17 juni 2010 op de Universiteit van Groningen hebben gegeven. read more ...
NIFLAR at symposium ICT in Humanitas to be held the 17th of June in Groningen
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Jun 16, 2010Mabelle en myself will be presenting the experiences with NIFLAR and the first results of pilot and follow-up sessions on the 17th of June at the symposium ICT and Humanitas at the University of Groningen. Those in the Netherlands interested in knowing more about our work can meet us there. read more ...
NIFLAR at EDEN
Posted by Kristi Jauregi on Jun 16, 2010NIFLAR was one of the three projects invited by the EACEA to present experiences in the workshop the European Agency organised on ICT and Digital Media for Key Competences within the International Congress EDEN , held in Valencia between the 9th and 12th of June 2010. It was an honour to hear that these were the best three projects... read more ...
Toekomst taalonderwijs
Posted by John Daniëls on Jun 13, 2010De vereniging van Leraren in Levende Talen viert in 2011 haar honderdjarig bestaan met allerlei activiteiten die te vinden zijn op www.levendetalen.nl . 1.Jubileumuitgave LT100 Er komt in april /mei 2011 een lustrumeditie LT100. Een groot deel daarvan is gewijd aan de toekomst van het taalonderwijs in Nederland. Hierover voert... read more ...
NIFLAR ProjectLandia Sim launched
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Jun 3, 2010This week the Alpha version of ProjectLandia, one of the four NIFLAR OpenSim VLEcomponents, saw the light and will be tested on usability and aesthetics. To introduce a number of partners we had an international workshop at Utrecht University. Supported… read more ...
NIFLAR OpenSim development report 2
Posted by Ton Koenraad on May 17, 2010As pointed out in this blogpost the NIFLAR VLE consists of various components and tools: VideoWebConferencing and 3D environments for academic students and secondary school pupils. The OpenSim environment we are developing involves a so-called MegaRegion with several SIMS so that in future we can develop scenes and scenarios for... read more ...
EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG research workshop in Lyon 26-28 May
Posted by Mirjam Hauck on May 8, 2010Dear all, registration for the EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG research workshop will be closed off on Monday 10 May at 5.00 pm CEST. Make sure you have booked your place! We are looking forward to welcoming you in Lyon from 26-28 May: … read more ...
Open Simulator announced as an official Immersive Education Initiative platform
Posted by Ton Koenraad on May 7, 2010We are pleased that Open Simulator ("OpenSim") was announced as an official Immersive Education Initiative platform, expanding the Platform Ecosystem first announced at the 2008 Boston Summit to a total of 4 open source virtual worlds platforms. In a previous blog we motivated why NIFLAR chose the Open Source 3D … read more ...
Virtual Round Table Conference results
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 27, 2010Can I ask your attention for the summary of the Virtual Round Table conference with its exciting program with 34 sessions of some 32 hours conducted by 61 guest speakers for an audience of 480 unique visitors at a conference site with 745 signed up members in 75 countries. Lots of recordings available (see DAY 1 and DAY 2 at... read more ...
EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG research workshop in Lyon (26-28 May 2010) - full programme now available
Posted by Mirjam Hauck on Apr 27, 2010The names and abtracts of the participants of the workshop on teacher education in CALL and CMC are now published on the site of the event: http://europe.univ-lyon2.fr/teacher-education-in-CALL/ You can still register ... Looking forward to seeing you in Lyon! Mirjam read more ...
NIFLAR NING listed as CoP on eLearningEuropa site
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 24, 2010An EU network researches the relationship of language learning and social media in the web 2 … read more ...
Programme of Virtual Round Table 2 published
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 13, 2010After a successful launch in 2009 the Virtual Round Table 2-day Conference is repeated this year on 22-23 April. The developing programme is available here: http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/events Tha … read more ...
Book on SLeducational tools forthcoming
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 10, 2010Looking forward to: More info here read more ...
The continuing story of NIFLAR dissemination
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 8, 2010My recent dissemination activities included the submittance of our contribution to the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE). Our abstract will be included in the 2010 Conference Proceedings as well as a link to one of our presentations customised for the occasion, … read more ...
NIFLAR OpenSim VLE development
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Apr 2, 2010To realise a safe environment for schools to offer non-adult language learners engaging and innovative learning activities and to provide teacher education organisations a managed 3d practicum environment for student teachers to find out about and develop competences to design and mo … read more ...
Last call to join the euroversity network LLP proposal
Posted by Klaus on Mar 22, 2010We'r just in the last moves to submit the euroversity network pro … read more ...
Tutorial materials for Second Life Viewer 2
Posted by Graham Davies on Mar 17, 2010Tutorial materials for Second Life Viewer 2 I have almost finished writing my tutorial materials for Second Life Viewer 2. They can be downloaded from Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT site: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-5.htm#secondlife Here is the direct link to the materials … read more ...
Yet another initiative for 3D language training: RendezVu
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Mar 16, 2010Am passing on James O'Reilly 's blogpost at Collaborative Translation as the approach & technologies used are, IMO, also interesting and useful for NIFLAR. … read more ...
Another, possibly even more relevant, online conference coming up soon
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Mar 15, 2010Just … read more ...
Virtual Worlds ? Best Practices in Education Conference Programme
Posted by Ton Koenraad on Mar 12, 2010Virtual Worlds ? Best Practices in Education , … read more ...