Comments on International Language Lessons: SLANGUAGES2008 SL CONFERENCE FEEDBACK AND REFLECTI...

Looking at the feedback (35 people so far), I thin...

2008-10-29T11:05:00.000Z

Looking at the feedback (35 people so far), I think we got an awful lot right this year, with a few improvements which can be implemented for the next one. What is immedaitely obvious is that this is now a ‘proper’ conference with a large number of people attending and speaking and is going to need a lot more people next time to guarantee it can continue to grow and serve the language learning and teaching community. We may even be looking for a third or possibly fourth sim on which to run it next year.
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Natalia

Guaranteed ROI

Yes I think the limitations will always have us si...

2008-05-31T02:20:00.000+01:00

Yes I think the limitations will always have us sitting in front of ppt, for ever and ever, until the end of time........
lol
yes I know how much preparation sl can take-and you never know what will go wrong;-(
nice slideshow thankx for the link

Hi Goodday, I agree with you too - with so much th...

2008-05-29T11:46:00.000+01:00

Hi Goodday, I agree with you too - with so much that SL offers, it was a a shame that most of the sessions were "sit down and look at the slides" sessions (I am guilty of this too). However, with so many people it's the easiest thing to do and also the easiest type of session to prepare. When thinking about how to present our sessions on quests, our first idea was to actually do it as a quest, but the practicalities of doing this (time, object placement, object creation, etc) meant that we had to discount it as an option.

Still, I think it's worth thinking about for the future and I'd definitely like to set up a language learning quest in the Main Grid sometime - hopefully before next year's SLanguages!

BTW, I've put together a review slideshare of the event: http://www.slideshare.net/bcgstanley/slanguages-2008-433956