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NEXT-TELL is a European research project that deals with advanced IT-usage in the classroom for
Time: 5Am SLT/ 12pm GMT
Your local time: http://tinyurl.com/67z78zr
NEXT-TELL is a European research project that deals with advanced IT-usage in the classroom for providing formative assessment to the learners. talkademy contributes its experience with using virtual worlds and plays a leading role in developing and deploying learning scenarios and assessment methods. As the target group are secondary school students, OpenSim will be used. In this talk we will give a short overview of the project and our approach how to use it in schools (doing pan-European project work).
Gerhilde Meissl-Egghart is a free-lancer in the field of educational technology and co-founder of http://talkademy.org, a not-for-profit organisation, that engages in using and creating virtual environments for learning purposes.
talkademy.org services universities, companies and individuals with learning events using Second Life and is a frequent partner in European projects (Avalon, Talk-with-me, NEXT-TELL, euroversity).
Before starting talkademy.org, Gerhilde gathered about 10 years of professional experience in software engineering, project management, quality management and training.
She holds a degree in computer science from the Technical Uni