Is is possible to activate the pb wiki in a way that whenever we add

sorry, I go on....that whenever anything is added you get a mail to your inbox?

Yes, Alicia. You should receive notifications automatically. I did today because of what you added. You can change notification settings in settings (top right-hand corner on this page) -> Monitor -> Notifications.

Alternatively, turn off notifications and subscribe to RSS feed if you have an RSS reader (e. g. Google Reader). To subscribe simply click on the blue RSS button in the address field of the browser) or on the RSS feed link below (centre).

At the bottom of the sidebar, you can see the recent wiki activity and who did what.

Hi girls!
Nice to meet you Wonderalicia, I know now how you look like. This wiki is great Nergiz! Thanks for having me as writer, there is a lot I need to learn. I have not set up porperly my Google Reader, I need more time! Do you know of a place where I can have a 40 hours day?
Besos

Welcome Maru. It's good to have you here. You will bring a different perspective to it.
Alicia, it makes me happy to see that you like this wiki so much. I like it, too. It is finally something concrete after a lot of wandering around in SL and thinking.

hi Girls!

I do love it, truly speaking. It's been great that you've created, and I find it so useful and practical! :-)
It was nice to see you both today. Let's keep adding things. I really became 'slexperiment' / Nergiz wiki...addict. :-)

Hey, Nergiz, or should I say Daffodil ;-) This is a great idea. Thanks for letting me in :-)

Welcom Daf! Great to have you here. Both names are fine :-)

Great idea - looking forward to exploring the wiki!

Hi Nergiz,
Thank you for the creating and sharing the wiki. I am looking forward to lots of great discussions. Just one question at this time:
Why made you choose the google group forum and not the wiki for discussions and questions ?

Hi Graham. Thanks for joining. I hope you'll find it useful.

Hi Nellie, that's a good question.... for me was easier to interact through the Discussion and Queries way as well...... :-)

Hi Nellie. Thanks for joining!
I created the Google Group forum because you cannot have threaded discussions in the wiki (not yet, but they're planning it for the future. If you look at the existing Discussion page in the wiki you will see that it would get chaotic with more participants. It's difficult to follow the discussions. Same with the Queries page. What do you think?

Thank, you , Nergiz for letting me in. :=)

Well, nice to join you. Thanks for the invitation Nergiz...

You're most welcome, Robert. Welcome, Nelba. Good to have you here.

Hi folks.... In Japan and just catching up with my mail. Looking forward to sharing here with everyone...

Hi Nergiz,
Thanks for letting me participate in this wiki. I am very curious about the possibilities of SL in teaching. I find it a bit difficult to see its potential in the use with students but I admit there are ways to use it with a learning benefit.

Welcome Joao. Let's find out about it's potential together. For me personally, SL is just one tool among many. I see it's potential for role-plays in environments that you can't replicate in the classroom. For students who do not live in an English-speaking country it's wonderful for practising speaking and listening in real situations.

Hi Gavin! Graham,Vance, Daf, Maru, Joao, Nelba, Robert and the rest A pleasure and honour to have you in this wiki! What a group we will have!...

Hi here!
So many familiar faces. Happy to join this wiki. Looking forward to learn a lot about SL and more.
Yes, it's a wonderful group.

Nergiz,
This chat looks fine. It is new for me that wiki provides with chat.
The Gabby chat on the sidebar doesn't seem to work properly. What do you think?

Hi Nina and welcome. I'm also looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you.
Nina, the chat works; I've tried it with Vance. Just type your name into the name field and chat with other visitors who might be here at the same time. As I said, not sure, how useful it is. But if two or more group members want to talk about a page or ides or anything else on this wiki, it's kind of neat.

Hi everyone!
Daf, Graham, Nellie, Nelba, Robert, Gavin, Joao and Nina ... Welcome to the wiki!
I am glad to see you all here, I am looking forward to meet you all tomorrow at our weekly meeting :-)
Nergiz, I think the chat is a good idea, we will see over time if we give a good use to it or not.
I will have to break the habit of emailing you with comments and add them here or at the Google Group.
See you around.
Besos

Hi Nergiz!
I just saw your screencast tutorial to create a lesson plan, thanks. It is great! You are very good at it, I love your accent. Besos

Glad you found it useful. I created it with Jing. There is a 5-minute limit, though.

Hello everyone. I am glad to see so many Webheads here. I am a total beginner in SL, but I am willing to learn.
Nergiz, the wiki looks great. Thanks for letting me participate.

Welcome Natasa and thanks! It will become better with everybody's participation. What I like about collaboration is that total newbies, like you say you are, can contribute as much as experts only in different ways. So, feel free to ask questions and leave comments.

I was here once, but pbwiki denied that I was and I couldn't access the wiki or the group. I think all is well now, though. Greetings again!

Hi Guys,
Did you see the article in "The Linguist" for June/July entitled "Class of the Future"? It's by Vance Stevens and features a couple of photos with very familiar characters from SL! (Daffodil, Dudeney Ge and could be Kip Yellowjacket) "An authentic linguistic environment is within reach of anyone with a sufficiently robust computer" it says in a subheading. The article is an introduction to the SL environment featuring descriptions of some of the working language schools and areas,
Anne

Thanks Anne! Vance seems to have been writing quite a lot about Second Life. I've linked to some of his writing on the "Other Resources" page. Is the article you mentioned online? If so, it would be great to have a link.

Sorry Nergiz, I looked up the website but the magazine articles themselves are only in the print version.

Hi all,

I can't see any of the pages except the front page. Is anybody experiencing the same problem or is it just my browser??

Hi Ifayed. I guess there must be an issue with your browser. I have no problem to see them all.

Hi Alicia,
Thanks for your reply. It seems it was a little problem I had yesterday, but now it works fine and I can see all the pages once again. BW..

Thanks for inviting me to group nergiz. I see maru from mexico here too. I am happy to be a part of this group. SL really rocks.

Welcome to the group, Minhaaj. Please, add yourself to the Participants list and tell us a little bit about yourself. Good that you already know some people here. We have many Webheads here. I hope you can make it to our Friday meetings.

Sure i would try to join friday meetings. My name is Minhaaj ur Rehman. I am from Pakistan. I have done my MBA in Human Resource Management and Bachelors in English Literature. I teach ESL, HRM, Change management, business communication, communication skills and american accent.

Hi Nergiz, at last I am in. I have just watched the video on making lesson plans. I plan to return regularly. Thank you very much for your invitation.
Yours,
Mike

Hi Mike, glad you made it. I hope you will find what you are looking for and participate actively. Hope to see you on Friday.

Hi Minhaaj!
It is really great to find you here, you will see this is a great group, the site is awesome to learn about SL, to find resources and ... there is always someone who jumps in to help out when you need it!
Warm hugs from Mexico.

Warm greetings to everyone!

Some information about discussion groups that deal with education in Second Life:

When we were only three members we simply had a Discussion Page which worked out fine. I was afraid it wouldn't work with many members and as there is no feature within pbwiki to have threaded discussion, I created a Google Groups. However, it is not used activly. I was wondering why. Is it because a) there is nothing to discuss b) members have no time and just lurk c) there other SL discussion groups that you are members of.

So, I searched for SL related groups and found some, though some of these are also not very active. Here are the links:

1. Second Life Languages Yahoo Group http://snurl.com/sllanguages
2. Professional Educators and Trainers of Second Life Google Group http://snurl.com/39vwm
3. http://snurl.com/rezed Language Learning in Virtual Worlds - RezEd [www_rezed_org] (active)
4. http://snurl.com/sledlist Educators Info Page [lists_secondlife_com] (very active)

If you know of other groups, let us know.

And, of course, you can still use the SLexperiments group and make it active, especially with questions directly related to SLexperimetns and if you feel lost or shy in the larger groups. But our aim is not doing our own thing but learning about SL where ever this is best possible.

Hi again everybody

I was thinking of doing a survey but decided to do it less formally :)
So here are my questions:

1. Would you like to come to the Friday meetings but you don't because
a) the time is not suitable
b) the topics we are discussing are not relevant to you
c) other (please specify).

2. I know some of you are already more experienced SL educators or even experts. What would make the group, the wiki and the meetings more relevant to you?

Looking forward to your comments.

And now off to the seaside for two days ...

Hi everybody
Alicia and I have talked about making the Wiki public so that everybody can read it but only members can write or edit. I'd like to hear your opinion about it. In case we open it, is there anything we should/need to change first so that everything makes sense for a wider audience?

Hi all
Back to the Google Group and asking questions. I get more and more questions from group members about how to do things in SL via e-mail. I really enjoy helping and usually learning more by doing so and at the moment it is still not overwhelming. But I think it would be a good idea to use the Google Group for your questions for two reasons:

1. There might be others in the group who can help you faster or better.
2. Most questions I receive are of the kind that probably many more on the list have. So, asking and answering those kinds of questions publicly might help others, too.

If you really don't like the Google Group, you can ask on that particular page as a comment. So if you have a SL skill question, go to the Second Life Skills page and leave a comment with your question.

Thanks!

A reminder:
When you come to the wiki, it is a good idea to look at "Recent activities" at the bottom of the sidebar to see what is new since your last visit. You also get notifications by e-mail but I have the feeling this doesn't always work and comments don't seem to be included.

Hi Nergiz!
I agree with Alicia and you, lets make public this wiki. More people will benefit from it!
I just placed a question on the Google group, I have seen that we receive clear answers and it is easy to find the topic you are looking for, that is another advantage. i have to check my settings also because sometimes I do not receive an email with the new debates posted.
I do receive the updates on the wiki content but sometimes not about the comments :-(
Shall we try the group email address? It may work better that the Edurizon group email.
Today's meeting was very useful, as Vance mentioned we learn more when there are dificulties.
Besos

Sorry about the typo! I meant the SLexperiments email address may work better than the Edurizon's one.
See you!

Hello, everyone!

First: I don't seem to get notification of new postings here, though I do get notices that slexperiments has been changed. Is that the same thing? I don't see an RSS button.
Second: Can the clever person who changed part of this wiki so that the last post ends at the top do the same magic for here? It's a long scroll to find the last post.
Third: In my opinion it was only the state of the audio after Vance joined us that was chaotic, not so much the meeting itself. I think Nergiz had a particularly frustrating technical time, but the rest of us exchanged a lot of personal/professional information and I was personally given a lesson in how to turn my avatar round and get him to photograph himself standing in a group. (I didn't quite manage...Next time).
Fourth: Believe me, I'm not getting at anyone and I know each person has their technical difficulties, and I'm certainly not unsympathetic, but I think it is worth stressing that these meetings are designed for those that can hear and talk to each other (as well as write) and they can only work smoothly if this is the case. Of course there will still be difficulties - Vance's were grandiose - but that's Second Life.
Fifth: Wouldn't you all agree that we should volunteer to take over individual sessions or part of them so that Nergriz does not have to be responsible for everything?
Sixth: I doubt if there is anyone in the group that likes informal chat more than me, but wouldn't you agree that we should still try to attend to our agenda for the week? Will we ever get around to grammar, for example? It's been on the list of topics for about three weeks now.

@ Maru Thanks! So one more person who thinks we should open the wiki to readers. This way, people could be mere lurkers and only if they really want to participate actively would they have to ask to become a member.

I am also not sure whether I always receive notifications from Google when a new post has been added to the Google Groups. So, I try to remember to check it :( Not sure what you mean with Edurizon mail Maru.

@ Dennis, check your settings (notification) of pbwiki. I am notified of chances. I can also see the blue RSS feed button in the browser's address field (orange in Firefox).

I'm afraid we cannot change the order of the comments. I have suggested to Pbwiki that it would be better to have the comments in reverse order to avoid scrolling (imagine in a year or so with hundreds of comments). They think it is a wonderful idea but not sure if/when this will happen and whether it will change in older versions. This is, btw, one reason why I started the Google Groups, to avoid long disconnected comments/discussion for which the comment feature is not suitable, imo.

Voice: I don not want to exclude anybody but participants should at least be able to hear. Teachers seriously interested in teaching in SL will need to be able to use voice (speak and hear). Of course, newbies are always welcome and we can help them set up voice...

....
Volunteers: That is the idea of a wiki and the group. Participate actively with your questions but also with whatever you can share. It is a great learning opportunity to select a tool and try to learn how to use it (or learn a skill) to show it to the group. I'm not an expert but this is what I do. The wiki motivates me to find new tools and learn new skills. I would certainly be happy to learn from others in the group.

Informal chats: I absolutely agree, Dennis. I love socialising and chatting but not for two hours. I don't think we should be too strict with the agenda but try to a bit more organised and cover at least some points. Maybe a simple rule would help: First 15 min, greetings, introductions and a bit of chatting, an hour of learning and sharing, last 15-30 min free for chats and questions. Those who feel like it can then stay as long as they want.

Finally, I think that these discussions should go to the Google group to avoid the comments here getting too long.

Looking forward to next meeting.

I hope all of this does not sound too serious :) I don't want to make the meetings too formal and enjoy chatting with all of you, but after all, this is about professional development.

Just spotted the RSS feed link right at the bottom this wiki. One does need to look long, slowly and carefully so as not to miss things. However, my READER says it couldn't do anything with the feed. Once I was asked for my name and password. (What name, what password?)- I'll look now for the settings that are supposed to be at the top, right (for notifications). Have not found them yet.

Dennis

Hi Dennis, Hi Nergiz et all,

1) I do agree about sticking to the agenda every Friday. I'd also like to suggest timing the meetings. The best: One hour, so tasks must be completed. Let's not be ambitious. Let's set just one or two points to be discussed per Friday...more, will not be possible to cover.

2) Regarding volunteering, I guess this meeting is open and I guess that it's not just focused on Nergiz. The fact is that it's been the most experienced and active inside SL and it's an open resource for all of us. But guess these meetings are not meant to be lead by just one person.

3)Regarding voice or chat is a matter of how each group states the rules. I do prefer speaking rather than writing, but in the number of meetings I've been, ours is one of those few ones that use voice. 90% of the meetings in SL are made through text. I guess it's a matter of having a history of it. But if we have to vote, I do vote for voice unless technical problems appear.

Hi everyone!
I invite you to follow this comment thread at Google http://snurl.com/3hb6a
Please avoid responding to this comment on this page.
I have reversed the order. Let's see if we like it better.
Besos

Hi to all!

This wiki seems to be developing fast. :) I look forward to participating in it in the near future. Has Wonderalica mentioned the "activity recipes" for the board games yet? Seems like this wiki would be the perfect home for them. :) What do you think Nergiz? I'll IM you in SL later. Till soon!

Hi Kip! Glad to see you active here. Activity recipes? No. What is that?

Hey, just discovered that you can reply to a comment. Is that a new feature? When did that happen?

hi Kip and Nergiz!

I still did not mention about it since I thought it was Kip the one to do it first. Just that when I saw the game boards and the hard work that he always does, I suggested building up a 'game bank' with teacher collaboration. Virtlantis is an island full of teachers where everybody could share what they have discovered in terms of tools and games for Language teaching. The first idea that we shared with Kip yesterday was to make a list of topics to apply questions or clues or orders to the board game he created. So Kip mentioned that a wiki could sometimes be difficult to manage and I 'reminded' him about this wiki shwhere he is also a member. He liked the idea of sharing and building the activities here to have it as a resource, but he told me that was going to proposite it first. That is why I did not mention anything before. I truly appreciate all the job he does in his island and what I just did was to give a suggestion. Hope everybody agrees and we start collaborating adding fun for our actual or future classes in SL!......before I forget......I also had theidea to do monthly workshops at the island where each of us can teach to the rest what we know.

sorry about some mispelling and word omission but the layout is strange and could not check what I wrote due to see our pictures flying on top of the writing. ....please read: .....just did was to give a 'suggestion'.

Thanks for the initiative Alicia!
I had a chat with Kip and we agreed to add the "activity recipes" (board games and notes on how to play them) to the Wiki.

Everybody who is interested can participate in building the board games/game boards and brainstorming and adding questions to them. There will be regular meetings on the SL English sim. The games will be available for free. More details later.

Looking forward to more collaborating and learning.

I've posted some questions at the Google Groups with the title "Your opinion about and experience with SLexperiments". I'd be happy if you added your thoughts. You can also send me an e-mail if you don't want it to be public. Thank you!

Thanks for this terrific resource, Nergiz! I'm really impressed with the community you have developed here.
It's a privilege to be among such inspiring educators here. :-)

Hi Chris! Thanks and welcome to our community. Isn't it amazing what a group of inspired educators can do together?! Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting later.

Thanks for all your hospitality today - I really hope to have a working computer for next time... It was really interesting meeting all of you..
Warm wishes, Steve

I concur with Steve. The hospitality is heat warming.

Thank you.

Warm wishes,

Nellie

I missed the "r" in heat. It should read heart warming. Hmm, I couldn't find a way to edit my comment.

Hey Nellie - I am looking around for a solution to getting your video on SL.
Thanks again for an interesting session today. I am glad I was able to have the sound., even though it seemed to get bad towards the end... I shall look into that too.
Meantime, happy thoughts for the weekend!
Warm wishes,
Steve

Cannot access homepage of this wiki. Loads and immediately switches off. Any tips?


Dennis

Got a message saying I have insufficient privileges @ 719. I believe this means something, but not what it says.

Dennis, I am sorry you are experiencing problems. I haven't had any problems and do not know what this error message means. Will ask someone from Pbwiki.

It is strange isn't it, that error messages often have nothing to do with what they state...! I hope Nergiz can get some sense out of Pbwiki. If it is any consolation, I found that their tech support department answered my request (on my own Pbwiki site) *really quickly*, even though the actual ticket went on a bit and it turned out to be an error which they couldn't fix without doing a downgrade! (So of course I just lived with it...)
Good luck Dennis!

Don't be mislead. He calls himself Nesterov, my SL surname, but he is actually me, Dennis.

He can't spell. I think he means misled. The real Dennis.

Hi Everyone,

My name's David Richardson and I work at Högskolan i Kalmar on the south-east coast of Sweden. I've been teaching English using ICT for a number of years now, and I use a variety of tools and environments, including SL. We're a partner in a Norwegian project called Kamimo, which represents the three universities involved: Høgskole i Molde in Norway (the lead partner), ourselves and the University of Central Missouri (hence Ka - Mi - Mo). We received 300,000 NOK in 2008 (around €50,000), which we spent on developing two islands, Kamimo and Virtual Montmartre, and another 300,000 NOK in 2009, which went largely to course development.

I've been teaching in SL for four terms now, and my main course there is an oral skills course, called Business Talking, which is a 3 European Credits course. We're into our third cycle now and we've got around 20 students on the course this term.

I also do a lot of other types of net-based courses from academic courses about Literature and Linguistics to more specific ESP courses.

I'm Davric Rinkitink in SL, and you can visit Kamimo most easily by going via the Business Talking course home page:

http://web.me.com/davidrichardson8/englishcourses/bt/index.htm

There's a SLURL in the top left corner.

See you in world,

David Richardson
david.richardson@hik.se

Welcome David! Good to have you with us.
See you in-world.

Hello, it is my first time here. I don't know how everything works yet, but I hope I will find out soon.
Thanks for inviting me :) Nergiz

Welcome Nenci! Please ask if you have any questions. Hope to see you at our next meeting in SL.

Thanks Nergiz. I was hoping to join your weekly meeting but i couldn't manage how and wasn't sure when, so.....I suppose i need help. The other problem is my PC, it was slow. I really hope i will be able to meet you on Friday.

Just joined this wiki. It looks very useful Have a look at Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT. It's all about SL and I update it regularly:
http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-5.htm#secondlife

Welcome Graham!
All members have writer status, so you are welcome to add resources that you come along or even create your own page as long as it is related to virtual worlds and language teaching/learning. I like your website a lot. Full of information. Thanks for keeping it up-to-date!

A couple of references that might be useful:

1. The CALICO Virtual Worlds Wiki
http://sl4calico.pbwiki.com

2. The CALICO Virtual Worlds SIG website (VW SIG):
http://colanmc.siu.edu/virtualworlds/
EUROCALL and CALICO have recently decided to form a joint VW SIG. You can see the first results of our activities at the EUROCALL HQ and CALICO HQ in SL. CALICO is moving in next door to EUROCALL, and we are in the process of building a Resources facility (to which you can teleport - it's 1000m up inthe sky), which will contain teaching tools, useful landmarks and a range of freebies that can be used both by teachers and students. SLURL to:

EUROCALL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/9/29/22/#
or
CALICO: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/44/24/22

I manage the EUROCALL HQ in the SL guise of Groovy Winkler, and Randall Sadler (Randall Renoir in SL) manages the CALICO HQ.

Graham Davies

Grahm, thanks a lot for these references.
We can add these and other such references to this page: http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/SL-Educational-Links

Hi Nergiz and all. I saw this poem in Natasha`s site. In my opinion, it is beautiful, so I decide to copy it here. I hope you enjoy it. Horacio.

The place I am from

I am from the earth
Where my feet were planted
On the day I was born
Where I was watered
And sang to
I am from the birch
Whose juice can quench your thirst in summer
Where I was rocked
In a hammock
I am from the hexagonal house
Built by a surgeon with gentle hands
I am from the garden
Where you can rest in summer
I am from the little wood
Where my ancestor chose to be burried
I am from the river
Which can get really angry
And flood the fields
Otherwise it is nice,
Especially in summer.

HELP!!!
I have used SL on my laptop since last Summer. Suddenly now I cannot get into it any more. I downloaded the latest update of SL and now the whole thing crashes when I log in and it gets to LOAD WORLD.
Do you know what it can be?
I will have to sort this problem soon as I must work on SL this Summer :(((

Susanna, sorry to hear about your problem. Maybe with the new updates your laptop doesn't meet the technical requirements for SL anymore. You can find the system requirements here: http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php . Maybe there is something else that causes your problem. Hope somebody who knows more about the technical side can help. Let me know.

Susanna .. I had the same problem recently ... and the only solution that I could find was to buy a new MacBook Pro .. now I am back in SL once again. They make the viewer updates optional .. perhaps you can revert to an earlier viewer release?

I'm about to start the autumn Business Talking course here in Kalmar. I've produced some very amateurish films to show my newbies how to get started, which I've put out on YouTube. If you click on this link

http://web.me.com/davidrichardson8/englishcourses/bt/btbusinesspages.htm -> Second Life Basics

You can run them directly from the page.

It's not Hollywood, but we didn't have the budget!

Thanks David! They're great! I've added the link here: http://slexperiments.pbworks.com/Information-for-SL-beginners