January has arrived, and also the Electronic Village Online. I first heard about it last year, and although we were warned not to sign up for more than 2 workshops, I signed up for three. BIG mistake! The workload was waaaay too much for me, I didn’t even know where to start…in the end, I did everything halfway, and promised myself not to do the same thing this year. One positive thing was that I had the chance to meet fantastic people from the Webheads community, and the classes opened my eyes to a whole new world of opportunities for teaching and learning.
So it’s 2010, and it’s my chance to do it right. I signed up for two interconnected workshops: Virtual Language Travel and Teaching Languages in a Virtual World. They are both related to teaching using virtual worlds and Second Life. Here’s how I am preparing this time:
1. I started a private pageflake with feeds for the events from both classes (I don’t want to miss anything!) and keep notes about what comes next.
2. I set up a Google calendar to start adding events there and keeping them organized.
3. I fed my blog (originally at www.pamelaarraras.com.ar/blog) into my personal page on both Ning sites. That way, as both classes are connected, when I blog both communities get the posts.
4. I took note of the tags we’re using: TLVW10 and #EVOVLT. I’ll tag every post, photo and bookmark with them.I’m trying to remember how to feed everything tagged to one place…I am going to ask in the forums, I guess.
5. I started befriending people, checking out their blogs and profiles on places such as LinkedIn, to start interacting and getting to know each other.
In case anyone needs help learning to do the things I mentioned above, leave me a comment and I’ll make a post, ok?
So, how am I doing so far? I hope my organizational skills last me for the 6 weeks we have ahead! Wish me luck!
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