5th SLANGUAGES Annual Symposium

5th SLanguages Annual Symposium

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16-18 September 2011
Friday to Sunday
#slang11

The 5th SLanguages Annual Symposium is a FREE annual conference which focuses on language learning in a virtual world(s) founded by Gavin Dudeney of The Consultants-E. Today it is organised by a team of volunteers. 

The featured theme of this year’s 3-day online conference is 'Serious games' and 'Situated Learning'. 

It hosts around 50 guest speakers and is attended by approx. 500 participants/ avatars. It takes place in Second Life on EduNation and on AVALON Learning and includes tours to other virtual worlds. 

To attend the sessions in Second Life, you need to have an avatar, a 3D representation, which is free. To get an avatar you need to sign up at secondlife.com. 

All of the program will be streamed in Adobe ConnectPro, which is a webconferencing software which allows us to screenshare our desktops, almost like a virtual window to a virtual world. You do not need to have an avatar to attend a session in Adobe and you can watch and listen to the keynotes, panel discussions, plenaries, presentations, workshops, tours to educational sims, demo language lessons, theatre plays, dance performances, variety shows and even the party all from the comfort of an Adobe ConnectPro seat (max 100).

Conference times
Friday       8am SL*  | 3pm GMT  until    2pm SL | 9pm GMT 
Saturday   3am SL  | 10am GMT until  4pm SL | 11pm GMT 
Sunday     1am SL  | 8am GMT  until    8am SL | 3pm GMT 
 *SL Second Life Time = PDT Pacific Day Time (San Francisco)

Locations
EduNation I
SLURL will be provided soon
EduNation II
SLURL will be provided soon
EduNation III 
SLURL will be provided soon
AVALON Learning Sandbox
SLURL will be provided soon
AVALON Learning Music stand
SLURL will be provided soon
BCS British Computer Society (prev. Learn4Life)
SLURL will be provided soon

There will be a Conference TP HUD available.
The group inworld is 'SLanguages Annual Symposium' (pls join the group)
Twitter hashtag is #slang11

Would you like to help out?
(volunteer form is coming soon)

Contact
Gary Motteram [SL name: Gwared Morgwain]
gary.motteram[at]manchester.ac.uk
Heike Philp [SL name: Gwen Gwasi]
heike.philp[at]letstalkonline.com