SLanguages Annual Symposium Archive

SLanguages annual symposium is an (near to) annual event, a 2-day conference in Second Life presenting the latest in language learning in virtual worlds.

SLanguages Annual Symposium was founded by Gavin Dudeney of The Consultants-E in 2007 and in 2010 was taken over by a committee, lead by Gary Motteram of the University of Manchester.

It is the only conference on language learning in virtual worlds and show-cases language learning in Second Life and other immersive 3D environment such as Open Sim, World of Warcraft etc.

It is a ‘magical’ conference that goes way beyond traditional conference presentations. Tours, workshops, demo lessons, performances and theatre plays were all part of the past conferences.

All of the sessions take place in the immersive 3D environment and are screen shared and recorded with Adobe Connect to provide ‘a virtual window’ to a ‘virtual world’.

http://www.slanguages.org  (website has been discontinued)

8th SLanguages 2015

Programm and links to the recordings 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1USVsLxTnRcis-lysMDpCNnS8I8rKIzZPG0MX7qaEeRw/edit

7th SLanguages 2014

6th SLanguages 2013

5th SLanguages 2011

Program and recordings

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3ngMANiLqT5uy9xggdFRQS0-TicjawSCSDop2r9zTA/edit