Panel discussion: AVALON Teacher Training

Friday, 23 April 2010 - 7am GMT (8am London Time)
Hawaii 9pm (Wed), Los Angeles midnight (Thu/Fri), New York 3am, London 8am, Paris 9am, Dubai 11am, New Delhi 12:30pm, Beijing 3pm, Tokyo 4pm, Sydney 5pm
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After more than a year of development the AVALON teacher training course was piloted over a period of 5 weeks from mid February to mid March 2010.

We are very much looking forward to hear first-hand about this experience from developers, trainers and trainees.

The pilot
It was not an easy task to select 20 language teachers of the eager 70 applicants received and in the end 16 teachers in 11 countries enjoyed a challenging course. Sadly four of them did not join due to hardware problems or failing internet.

After 4 weeks with 2 times 2h a week group sessions in Second Life the trainees presented their final tasks, a language course designed to be held in Second Life.

Moderator
Brian Richardson, University of Kalmar, Sweden

Panelists
Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK
Graham Stanley, British Council, Spain
Nergiz Kern, Turkey
Joe Pereira, British Council, Portugal
Holly Longstroth, LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH, US