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Welcome to the AVALON project website, your route into virtual worlds for language education! The information presented in this website (click on the right-hand menu for specific topics) is addressed to anyone interested in virtual worlds for educational purposes and in particular to: * Language teachers * Language learners * Teacher trainers * Learning technologists * Decision makers in the field of education The AVALON website provides you with access to: * Information about the use of virtual worlds for language education * Information on how to Get Started in the virtual world of Second Life® * An Online Community of educational experts and language teaching practitioners who are using virtual worlds for language education * Guidelines for teaching in virtual worlds * Resources for Teachers * Resources for Teacher Trainers * Resources for learning technologists * Tested Course Scenarios for use in virtual world environments * An Open-source archive with selected 2D and 3D content from the project

"The Access Grid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid."

The resources, templates and tools that make up this guide are designed to support schools to implement the Digital Citizenship program.

The resources, templates and tools that make up this guide are designed to support schools to implement the Digital Citizenship program.

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

Created by Jo Kay (aka jokay Wollongong) and Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDunnough) in 2007, the SLeducation Wiki is designed to: * document Educational Uses of Second Life * provide useful resources for educators * link to a range of handy Second Life online resources, * and list some of the many other virtual worlds that exist.

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. Wikiversity has over ten thousand learning resources, many of which are of the highest repute, and it is rapidly growing.

Story Stage is an interactive and highly creative puppet-based literacy resource. It encourages and facilitates groups or pairs of children working together around the computer to devise and create their own imaginative retellings of Traditional Stories.

Story Stage is an interactive and highly creative puppet-based literacy resource. It encourages and facilitates groups or pairs of children working together around the computer to devise and create their own imaginative retellings of Traditional Stories.

list of Twitter resources

list of Twitter resources

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

This is a truly transformative collection of resources

The E is for English website with a range of resources and community around improving students' English capabilities

Range of literacy resources brought to us by the International Reading Association

Videos for students to learn from. Organised. Good resource!

"The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation). While leading districts and schools are already doing this, P21 advocates for local, state and federal policies that support this approach for every school"

"EndNote Web delivers tools to: - Search online resources - Save ISI Web of Knowledge SM records directly to an online library - Collect and organize references - Format citations and footnotes or a bibliography"

As a big fan of EndNote, I was surprised to find that the library website is now way behind the version I'm using. I can't import from the library any more. Is anyone else having this problem?

"citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references 4,376,192 articles - 4,408 added today. Easily store references you find online Discover new articles and resources Automated article recommendationsNEW Share references with your peers Find out who's reading what you're reading Store and search your PDFs "

Tis is a victorian government initiative outlining Government 2.0 issues and initiatives.

Tis is a victorian government initiative outlining Government 2.0 issues and initiatives.

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne