A Porfolio
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
Dekita.org celebrated yesterday its first bloganniversary. Aaron and I played the piano 4 hands for the anniversary post and Rudolf collected and displayed a number of long forgotten screenshots from the early days. This has been a hell of a collaboration 🙂 Lots of blood, sweat and tears (and fun and love). Happy birthday and … Read more
Through Eric Baber, a link to a comprehensive directory with over 2500 podcast channels for teaching and learning made in the UK, with tips for educators, video-channels and a weblog. Eric has also just opened an ExtremeTechnoELT community on Moodle housing a number of different discussion fora for advanced of IT in ELT. Not for … Read more
I am the mentor for the Young Caucasus Project during this coming Easter week (April 9th to 16th) . The subject of languages, identity and intercultural competence is very close to my heart as I have been exposed to it all my life and this is why I would like to hear what you have … Read more
Jeff Lebow launched yesterday the new WiA (Webheads in Action) portal on Drupal. Check out the video-tour prepared for the occasion. I love the possibility to connect with all the other members through its aggregating system and the podcasts to the main conferences stored on the site. Way to go! Thanks Jeff!
Hot off the press: Web 2.0 Awards!. We have been using some of the sites listed very successfully in education especially in the area of podcasting, photography, bookmarking, collaborative writing, social networking and tagging. Check out the short list! Quick reminder to what Web 2.0 stands for: user generated and/or user influenced content applications that … Read more
To launch the recently published book “English Next” by David Graddol, British Council Sao Paulo organized a video-conference debate with a SP panel of three experts (Lynn Mario de Souza from USP, Claudia Costin , ex- secretary of Culture for the State of SP and now vice-president of the Victor Civita Foundation and Guy Gerlach … Read more
– Karla Lopez sent me a link to George Siemens’ presentation on Connectivism: Re-thinking learning.
Got this indication through Isabel Teixeira from Brasilia. Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. Update: First experience – shot some short sequences of my dogs this Sunday MARCH 19TH View this clip on Vimeo View this clip on Vimeo [videoblogs]