Gavin Dudeney and Nickey Hockly will be our Keynote Speakers in the European Region. The time of their appearance can be found here.

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TITLE OF TALK
Get a MUVE on… Multi-User Virtual Environments, Teaching and Training

ABSTRACT
Harvard are doing it, so are Trinity College Dublin. Suzanne Vega performs there, and Kurt Vonnegut talks about his writings ‘in-world’. Multi-User Virtual Environments provide creative platforms for distributed training, seminars and virtual get-togethers. Rich-media MUVEs such as Second Life combine synchronous text chat with multimedia possibilities and real-time voice chat to open up a world of opportunity for teaching and training. In this keynote we will examine Second Life, and consider its application in the teaching / training process.

BIODATA
Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly are joint directors of the online training and development consultancy The Consultants-E, specialising in online and distance education in higher and adult education. The Consultants-E owns and runs a private island simulator called ‘EduNation’ in Second Life. The island features free-for-educators seminar rooms, podcast and video lounges and a large outdoor social breakout area. They are joint authors of the Longman title “How to Teach with Technology” (Longman, 2007).

Websites of special interest include

The Consultants

The Second Life homepage
This gives you a good overview of what SL is all about——–

Getting Started With Second Life
A step by step guide to getting started in SL, from installing and registering to learning how to move around in SL

SimTeach
A site for eduactors interesting is using environments like SL in teaching and learning. The site includes a blog, a wiki, a discussion group, and some sample SL videos

SLED Archives
The archives from previous discussions held by educators in SL

You Tube Sample Second Life Videos
A selection of videos that show you clearly what life is like in SL

The video on the NMC campus shows an educational environment in SL

Talk to the Avatar
An article on Second Life and education published in the Guardian Weekly
October 2006, by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly

Edunation
An island in SL set up for EFL/ESL teachers and trainers

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