A Porfolio
Ourmedia allows you to store video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media for free on their servers forever, as long as you are willing to share your works with a global audience. According to their mission statement, they are several things in one: – An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers – … Read more
From March 30th to April 2nd, Tesol holds its 39th Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Many EFL/ESL webheads will be travelling for the presentations. For this thriving community of practice, used to collaborating synchronously and asynchronously online, meeting face to face is not only an opportunity to get together and celebrate but also take part … Read more
As an extension to the Evo05 blogging workshop, every Sunday at 22:00 GMT, Aaron, Graham and I host the Blogstreams Salon at Tappedin, where teachers involved in EFL/ESL blogging come for informal chats. Once a month we hold a special presentation at ASO (After School Online room). Next Sunday, for instance, we have Aaron Campbell … Read more
I would like to make public the request for supportI got yesterday from the Centre for English Teacher Training in Budapest, Hungary. An unfair and insensitive cost-cutting campaign is putting at risk the survival of the centre. Highly respected academics with more than 20 years in the field are being sacked without any professional consideration. … Read more
The weblog project imagined and planned by Robin Good, Marco Montemagno and film producer Massimo Stella will be the first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to support and promote the blogosphere where featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors are the bloggers themselves. The film springs from their passionate belief in “the importance of communicating, both … Read more
Nate posted this quiz on his blog and I decided to have a go. The first time, surprise, surprise: I thought some of it was not very becoming so decided to try it again, changing some of the previous choices (had to let go the red ancient dragon and the blue diamonds among others), and … Read more
Firewalls of the Mind, originally uploaded by bee1. In Lesley’s Graham’s Peregrinations, I found the tip to Letter James, which allows you to insert a personalized text on a given picture motif. I first heard the expression firewalls of the mind used by Vance Stevens . As I looked at the Berlin Wall photo, I … Read more
I just wish I were more reflective than action oriented. I wish my day contained more hours (though I wonder whether I would use them judiciously…). I wish I could read all the books piling up on my night table, which I long for but can only leaf before my eyes close in exhaustion. I … Read more