Nik's Learning Technology Blog

Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to make my debut as an educational chat show host on The Consultants-E' s Edunation Island where I inte...

One of the things that I really like about Second Life is the rich visual imagery and the creativity that many of the builders there have p...

For me, one of the main blocks to really developing online language learning courses has been the inability to supply real communicative spe...

For a while now Jane Hart over at Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day has been collecting the top 10 favourite tools of a range of people...

A few months ago I did some work on a series of teacher training videos for teachers who want to use Second Life, and I'm glad to say th...

I spotted 3B Village about a year ago and initially I was impressed, but some recent developments have, I feel, put this on the map as a re...

I recently came across a very impressive piece of software for making Machinima. It’s still in Beta at the moment, and it’s free, so I’ve sp...

For a while now I’ve been a fan of the virtual 3D world There.com . Although it isn’t as developed and hasn’t had a fraction of the publici...

Over the past few weeks I've been pretty busy teaching my first English students on a Business English course I have been developing for...

Over the last couple of weeks I've been trying out the new voice client for Second Life and despite a few remaining bugs with voice grou...

I was recently lucky enough to be invited to give a presentation on course and materials design for Second Life at the SLanguages 2007 virt...