Book your place for the online events!

Online events take place using DimDim (http://www.dimdim.com)
Pease email: virtualeurocallATgmailDOTcom (replacing AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols) to reserve a place.

Online presentation, 3rd September 2008, 12:30 - 13:15, Székesféhervár local time (GMT +2)
Chuang Fei-Yu - Exploring the use of mobile phones in grammar learning

Q&A session 6th September 2008, 12:15 - 13:00, Székesféhervár local time (GMT +2)
Patrik Svensson will be available to discuss his plenary presentation, Language Learning in a Digital World: from language laboratory to Parkour Performance.

Both of these events promise to be very interesting, and we hope you will sign up for them - places are limited, so please do so as soon as possible!

You can read the abstracts for both presentations at: http://virtualeurocall.googlepages.com/abstracts

Join the EuroCALL 2008 Blogging Team!

If you would like to be a conference blogger, please email:

virtualeurocallATgmailDOTcom

(replacing AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols) with a message heading of "I'd like to be a conference blogger" (you need to be a Virtual Strand delegate or at the conference in Székesféhervár to join the blogging team).

Virtual Strand Discussion List

The Virtual Strand discussion list is now underway. Virtual Strand delegates should have received an invitation to join via email.

If you're at the conference in person and would like to join the discussion list, please email:

virtualeurocallATgmailDOTcom

replacing AT and DOT with the appropriate symbols.

Please use the message title "I'd like to join the discussion list".

Please visit the discussion group and join in the existing discussions or start a topic of your own.

No Second Life PCW places left!

The final online place for the Second Life / Lively workshop has been snapped up! The workshop is now full. Please check for announcements here, on the website and in the discussion list to see if this situation has changed - it's always possible that someone may decide not to take up their place.

If you want to explore Second Life and the EuroCALL HQ but haven't managed to get a workshop place, please go to the Virtual Strand Website's home page (url in the Welcome message for this discussion group and in the "information and update" message you should have received on 26th August) where following the "Resources" link will take you to comperehensive documentation about using Second Life.

One place left!

There is ONE online place left for the Second Life & Lively pre-conference workshop on 3rd September. If you're interested, please follow the link to the main conference website and the details of the pre-conference workshops for more information.

Pre-Conference Workshop begins soon....

The EuroCALL 2008 Virtual Strand's Pre-Conference workshop runs from 27th August - 3rd August, giving Virtual Strand delegates the opportunity to explore the tools and resources available to them.

It's not too late to sign up for the Virtual Strand - just go to:

http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=122

to do so!

EuroCALL 2008 approaches!

The EuroCALL 2008 conference starts on 3rd September with the pre-conference workshops. The Virtual Strand has two associated workshops:

1. the Virtual Strand workshop which runs from 27th August - 3rd September
2. the Second Life and Lively workshop on 3rd September.
   

If you can't attend the conference in person, there's still time to sign up for the Virtual Strand via the Conference Website.