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Romenna
Last week, the HGAC went on a trip to Romenna. Unfortunately there were some technical issues and I was unable to get there; I did, however, manage to get there the next day. Romenna, which is part of...
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Robots are cool
OK, first things first. Since there is a robot theme, I have included suitable music – so, to get in the right mood, press play. The music is Giant Robot by the group of the same name (featuring...
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Dresden Art Gallery
I have been taking part in the “Village” eventin Second Life, held as part of EVO 2011. The aim is to give Teachers an introduction / overview of how / why Second Life can be used for language...
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Fenêtre sur Chambre
Today the Hypergrid Adventurers Club visited a project which shows a really inspired use of a Virtual World. Fenêtre sur Chambre, which in my bad french translates to “Window on to Bedroom” is a...
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Putting Vimeo on a prim
Putting YouTube videos on a prim is simple – I has assumed that it was as simple with other video sites like Vimeo. Unfortunately, when you try to do this it doesn’t work. The link displays the page...
View ArticleFlip Books or Flop Books?
Flip books, the sort of animated pdf document where the pages appear to turn (sometimes accompanied by appropriate sound effects) seem to have become quite popular. Here is an example – it’s the IATEFL...
View ArticleBrighton 2011 – Reflection
It’s been a busy couple of months and for that reason not a lot has been happening on this blog. There simply has been no time to do anything. As well as teaching a couple of new courses, plus Easter...
View ArticleCorrection Toolbar
Some time ago I created a toolbar to use for correcting and annotating student work in Microsoft Word. It uses word macros and doesn’t do anything particularly fancy – it just allows you to annotate...
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It’s a fair cop, guvnor, you’ve got me bang to rights
Last Friday night I took part in a murder mystery simulation along with other people from the SLExperiments group. It was set up pretty much like any other simulation – there were a bunch of suspects...
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Get on up
Yesterday I took part in a short workshop on creating animations for Second Life avatars using qAvimator. Here we all are at the end of the workshop – of course having a non-human avatar does interfere...
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