Language day and conferences in SL

I have participated in several nice virtual conferences in Second Life during the last weeks. Unfortunately I just have had lack of time so I haven't made any notes to my blog about these activities. Luckily my friend avatars have been more active in the blogospshere so I just give some references to the blogs and to the websites about the conferences.

Jokaydia Unconference, September 27th - 28th, Australian eLearning conference
http://jokaydia.wikispaces.com/jokaydiaUnconference
http://selentiak.blogspot.com/2008/09/jokaydia-unconference.html
Jokaydia in Second Life




European Language Day, September 26th, Swedish Institute island
http://www.ecml.at/edl/
http://literatour.ning.com/
http://selentiak.blogspot.com/2008/09/european-language-day.html
Swedish Institute in Second Life




Science Friday, September 12th, Science Friday island
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
Science Friday in Second Life




eLearning 2.0, September 5th, Swedish Institute island
http://elearning20sfis.blogspot.com/
http://selentiak.blogspot.com/2008/09/seminars.html
Swedish Institute in Second Life

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SL seminar in Paijat-Hame Edu Island

After two more weeks, Friday the 17th of October 2008, there will be a Finnish Second Life seminar organized by the Koulutuskeskus SALPAUS from Lahti, Finland (mentioned also in Le's and Sammy's blogs). The program and the registration can be found from the website [http://slseminaari.blogspot.com/]. Online participating (only half of the day) by Second Life is for free, real world participating in Lahti takes 80 euros.

There is Paijat-Hame Edu Island in the Second Life, one of the newest Finnish educational sims. This sim also offers buildings for business purposes around Lahti region. In one corner of the island the famous Salpausselkä sporting centre's slopes for ski jumping can be easily found. In the center of the island there are buildings for learning activities including several rooms and halls for collaboration and meetings where the conference will be held also I assume.

There are also a beach and a park for relaxing and a bar for chit chatting and a playing ground with some interactive games. In the another corner there is also a sandbox with the basic intstructions for learning building skills.

Inspired by the famous flying Finns I flew to the sandbox and after a minute (or maybe an hour) I succeed to create a Finnish flag with a wooden curved handle (see picture).

Building class in the Insight Virtual College

There is quite useful in-world search option in Second Life. I used it for seeking what would happen in the learning genre in the near future. There were plenty of activities going on and to be. I picked up one which started in some minutes: A free building class in the Insight Virtual College.

I will add the introduction of the class here: "Building Module II is a detailed overview over the different tabs of the Edit Menu. Today we will look at the Features Tab. This class is designed for students with beginner's experience in building who have already completed Module I and want to deepen their knowledge about the Edit Menu. By the end of class you will understand how to use the Features tab and you will walk away with a simple but funny hat!"

So I teleported to the Insight Virtual College's Shepherd Halls Ground Level where the class was just about to begin. The instructor, Lara Shepherd, wished me warmly welcome and the class started...and it was all fun.

I can very warmly suggest the Insight Virtual College's classes. The atmosphere was comfortable, the class was well structured and I got what I was looking for: The basic knowledge of Edit window's Features tab's possibilities and skills for building a funny flexible hat!

There is information about the classes also in the web: http://ivc.2ksite.com/viewforum.php?f=4