A Porfolio
Barbara Dieu What a rush! I’m now in Santiago do Chile for the 2-day 9th IATEFL conference and only now got a free moment to report on the week in Brasilia (from July 7th to 11th). Got there Friday evening (7th) and Isa Peixoto, who kindly offered to host me for the whole week, came to fetch … Read more
In two hours I’m flying to Brasilia for the BrazTesol 10th National Convention. I’m looking forward to meeting the coordinators from the other Special Interest Groups and find out how the EduTech SIG can connect and help them bring more teachers online to learn about educational technology. Tomorrow we start with the pre-convention meetings, during … Read more
From Clarence Fisher (Remote Access) through Stephen Downes (Old Daily), a wonderful 20-minute videocast (70 zipped mb to download) from TED (Technology Education Design) featuring Sir Ken Robinson. This is an inspired presentation peppered with witty personal anecdotes illustrating kids’ imagination and ingenuity and how the public school system today should encourage and promote creativity, … Read more
Please update your feeds! Now that WordPress offers an import and export feature, I have moved all the content from all my blogs to Wide Open Spaces. Open house. See you there !
English conversations (Practical Conversations for Language Learners) is a series of podcasts for EFL/ESL learners produced by Aaron Campbell and Mark White. Check out their stories on Africa, Thai and Japanese culture and themes like skin colour and feminism.
Beewebhead’s Web Originally uploaded by beewebhead. This is the graph for Bee-coming a Webhead and I have made another one for my other blog at WordPress. It’s fun to see the little dots expanding and connecting. Both look like an informal English landscape garden, full of flowers. I wonder what the different colours mean and … Read more
I am going to make an experiment. I do not have Moodle and do not feel like going into the trouble of installing and learning how to operate one now, first because I do not like it and second because it would take a whole semester for me to train my stds to use it. I … Read more
Josie Fraser (read EdTechUK) is organizing blog.ac.uk , the UK’s first educational blogging conference on Friday, June 2nd. Keynote speakers include Barbara Ganley and Stephen Downes. I have invited Josie to share with us her insights and impressions on the event on June 4th 21:00 GMT at our monthly Blogstreams Salon meeting at Tappedin. Join … Read more
After much grafting and pruning, the Dekita Orchard is now open to the public. There is a variety of trees and fruit from all corners of the planet, as the Orchard aggregates feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange. The Orchard helps find the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties to … Read more
Although in July teachers in Brazil enjoy a month of winter holidays, there is work ahead. From 8th to 11the July, I will be attending the Braz-Tesol National Convention, both as a presenter (Networking the network) and the coordinator of the newly created EduTech SIG. Leo van Lier from the Monterey Institute of the International Studies has … Read more