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 with the animation and my Charlie Chaplin animation turned out to be more of a James Brown kind of ……
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 who had been allocated various roles and a group of rather bumbling police officers and another group of journalists. ……
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 student work using a correction code.
You can download the zipped folder which contains two files: a word document that ……
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 holidays, it has also been conference season.
I found the IATEFL conference in Brighton this ……
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 Conference Programme. I think this works quite well, as conference programmes are things ……
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 just fine, but the all important controls that allow you to play the video are missing which ……
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 project involving young patients in hospital who are staying in sterile isolation rooms. These children are interconnected using ……
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 teaching.
One of Tursday’s sessions was very practical. Osnacantab Nesterov (Dennis) ……
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 Buckethead) and is really an homage to Giant Robo. This may be more familiar to some of ……
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 PMGrid, is a really impressive build – it really is worth the visit. OK, ……
