Barbara Dieu

This morning Venny (Taiwan) invited me through YM to join him in a video-conference room at Uvault. I plugged my cam and mic on and off I went into cyberspace. I landed smoothly in a room with 6 screens, a chat space and a login feature where I had to write my name and choose … Read more

Small Technologies Loosely Joined is the ” wiki-blog-chat fest” which will be presented at the New Media Consortium Summer Conference 2004 on June 17, 2004, 4:15 – 5:30 PM Pacific Coast Time. You can find your local time via World Clock: http://pieces-time.notlong.com/ The organizers, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and D’Arcy Norman, are asking education oriented … Read more

People in the course have been split in smaller groups. I am together with about 5 others in Group A and we have started to experiment with the wiki version you can find in Moodle. Susan Burg (Florence) suggested a digital role-play story so we are interacting in a small group in the wiki environment. … Read more

I have not been posting here for some time…I guess one cannot be at a hundred places at the same time …even if virtually it does seem easier. I have been participating at a collaborative experience at Moodle. Karen Garcia, who did the BaW in February invited interested participants to join her in the exploration … Read more

Blogger has just just been revamped – a gift for Mother’s Day! I like the new look. It is clean, well-organized and very visual. I am sure my students will find their directions more easily. I am curious about what they are going to say. I have also installed a Google bar to my browser … Read more

I have just enrolled for the Australian Flexible Learning Community. and while updating my profile, Geoffrey Kaye from CompuED sent me a message. You can see who is logged in and text chat with members online. He was surprised to see someone from Brazil in an Australian AFLC ccommunity. (webheads are impossible! ). He asked … Read more

I have just received a link to a short video (in French) featuring Bernard Garcin and Mary Vernet from France explaining project WKTO (Cartable Electronique – link recovered through Wayback Machine, in which my classes took part last year. I was invited to lead an international class in this environment (link recovered through Wayback Machine) as … Read more

I have just finished a 3-hour session online for the Tesol Arabia, during which Vance Stevens presented the webheads and what they do. We met at Learning Times. I was up at 2 am as there is a 7-hour difference between us…but had a nice cup of strong Brazilian coffee and the sleep wore off … Read more

I must say I have not been actively blogging here lately…however, this is not laziness..I have a two-week autumn break from school so I went away for some days. I was also invited to write an article on blogs in language learning for the Tesol Essential Teacher magazine so I spent some time collecting information … Read more

My 8th grade students had much fun today learning their irregular verbs. Instead of giving them the usual exercises to practise or memorize the 3 columns and the translation, I asked them to make the exercises themselves using Mike Capstick´s Quiz generator for the Bankrupt Game . I posted the instructions on bloki, which they … Read more