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Secondlife Workshop at Elluminate

Workshop, August 25th at learncentral.org:

This class will give you a visual tour about how to use Second Life ® (SL) and find interesting places using your avatar in SL.

I will show you how to teleport to interesting places in SL, how you move your avatar and get information about the virtual world.

The class will start as presentation (using desktop sharing) to show you my own view in the SL Viewer Version 2. The second part will be a live hands-on tour directly in SL where you need to start up the SL Viewer along with the Elluminate virtual classroom.

Syllabus:

- How to find interesting places
- How to teleport
- Walking, Running, Flying around
- Getting information
- Finding schools and classes in SL
- visiting an SL school in world

Prerequisites:

You need to have an account at Secondlife already. If you don’t have a (free) account yet, please create one before you come into class at:

https://join.secondlife.com/?lang=en-US

Please make sure you will be able to run the SL viewer along with the Elluminate virtual classroom to take part of the second part of this workshop. To do this, your computer needs to have enough power to handle both windows side by side. Usually a fast Windows desktop computer with a DSL-1000 Internet connection will be sufficient.
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URL: http://www.learncentral.org/node/82790

Date/Time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=25&month=8&year=2010&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=37

Posted 20 August 2010 § Classes § English Blog § Second Life § elluminate ‡ Comments (0) °

Free Webinar with Jason Fried (today)

I just found this in my email inbox from the Brazen mailinglist:

FREE WEBINAR WITH JASON FRIED
Thursday, July 29, 11AM EST | 8AM PST
In this webinar you’ll learn:

* Why you can’t work at work.
* How to break a big idea in half.
* What drug dealers can teach the digital world.

http://www.brazencareerist.com/webinar/jason-fried/watch

Posted 29 July 2010 § English Blog § Quick Tip ‡ Comments (0) °

How to improve your English pronunciation

Here is the link to the class on WizIQ next Thursday:

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/350522-how-to-improve-your-english-pronunciation

I will present my proven method to improve English pronunciation very easy and without any cost. All you need is available on the Internet. To perform this method you need only these resources:

1. An audio software to playback MP3 files in a loop

I use audacity that you can download at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

2. An audio book in MP3 format

I just pick some favorite stories from http://librivox.org/ where you can download audio books, read by volunteers. You should pick one that is read by a native speaker.

3. A text file for the audio book that you have in MP3 format

This text can be obtained from the same site http://librivox.org/ where you can find the text link on the gutenberg project for the audio book.

And optional:

4. A set of headphones

this is not necessary but helps a lot understanding the nuances of the language.

5. A microphone

also not necessary but it helps to control your own pronunciation in the process.

6. A mixer (hardware)

not necessary but useful if you can mix your computer output with your microphone so that you can hear both the audio book reading and your own voice.

You also need:

7. Some patience and time (preferably 10-20 minutes every day).

I will walk you through the process of finding the audio books, downloading audio and text files, playing back the audio while speaking the text along with listening to the audio.

Posted 27 July 2010 § Classes § ESL § English Blog § WizIQ ‡ Comments (0) °

Free Webinar w/ Guy Kawasaki

I received this newsletter from Brazen Careerist some time ago. It’s still time to come to the free webinar with Guy Kawasaki.

Kawasaki is not a motorcycle, in this case it’s one of the most well known web celebrities. You can check out his blog here. I must say, that I don’t know him very well and I haven’t read much from him but I heard his name several times when people discuss Web 2.0 and business on the internet. So I’m excited to learn more about him in this live lession.

Here is the agenda from the site:

In this webinar you’ll learn:

  • The fastest way to start your own business.
  • How to identify your biggest hurdle and get past it.
  • The difference between a dreamer and a doer.

Find out the starting time in your time zone.

And here is the link to the webinar.

Posted 09 July 2010 § English Blog § News § Quick Tip ‡ Comments (0) °

Career Portal Recommendation: Brazen Careerist

Brazen Careerist

I’m a member of brazencareerist.com for a while and I regularly scan their group discussions. Yesterday I’ve received a new newsletter from their mailing list that caught my attention, so I thought it’s about time to tell my readers more about this community.

Brazen Careerist feels a little bit like LinkedIn or Facebook. It’s an online community that you can join for free and it’s dedicated to careers (as you may have already suspected by the name).

After you’ve joined the network by creating an account with your email address and a password (you can also log in via an existing facebook account), you can join several networks. These are the equivalent of “groups” that you may know from other social networking sites. I am a member of these networks for example:

Creatively Inspired

Freelancing

Location Independent

PR & New Media

Social Media

Social Media Marketers

and Web 2.0

You can decide if you want to get email notifications when new discussion entries come up in each of these networks. I get notification emails daily but you can also choose to receive them in real-time, weekly or not at all.

If you find some members interesting, you can follow them as a fan and you can be followed by other people also. For example, I’m following Penelope Trunk because I’ve found one of her articles recommended on somebody else’s blog and I like her writing style and the topics she write about.

If you have an account at brazencareerist, you get your very own “Social Resume” which is your profile page that can be used to show off your ideas, your qualifications and your work history.

I’ve found two articles that I want to recommend along with my short overview on this platform.

The first one is from Penelope Trunk and came with yesterday’s newsletter that I mentioned earlier in this post. A Note From Penelope Trunk: How to Skip the Entry-Level Track

The other one is an interesting article from Carlos Miceli that I found under “Featured Posts” today: Why Do We Fail?

As you may know, I’m not looking for job as employee (yet), but I think that this site is also interesting for all people who care about their professional career.

Posted 06 July 2010 § English Blog § Quick Tip ‡ Comments (1) °