Flagr

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Flagr is another easy and cool WEb 2.0 tool for “everyone to share where they go, while on the go”. Do it online or through your mobile phone- send in your photos and attach them to your flag. [Web2.0]

Eslblogs

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James Farmer has just launched Eslblog.org , a hosting service which provides “blogs for ESL / EFL students wherever they happen to be”. I wonder in which way these blogs will be different from the others. Will they have special features language learners can benefit of, like concordancers, dictionaries, spelling correctors, an embedded podcast facility? … Read more

Get Creative

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Getting my students acknowledge their sources and making them understand that photographs that they find out there do belong to someone and may be copyright is an uphill battle. I hope no longer! I have just got mail through Vivência Pedagógica, a Brazilian community of educators interested in exchanging ICT experience and resources. Prof Eziquiel … Read more

Projects and plans

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Next Sunday March 5th at 21:00 GMT (check WorldClock for your time ) I will be hosting a Blogstreams Salon event at Tappedin. I will be talking about different blogging projects I am participating in with my classes this year and explaining how to connect your learners to other projects and classes through Dekita.org. Two … Read more

English Next

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You can already download from the British Council site English Next 2006 (pdf file), a provocative report on the changing nature of English as a foreign language written by David Graddol, British applied linguist and researcher.

Bubbleshare

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Bubbleshare allows you to create your personal narrative by letting you upload a photo album and voice captions to go with it. Read how Aaron places it in the EFL/ESL classroom together with iPods and let your imagination wander. Things are becoming easier and easier and there are no technical excuses for not transforming your … Read more

2006 at School

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– A quick update from this side of the world . Our school year has just started and I have taken to blogging with my classes again I have plugged my 39 10th graders (2 classes) into the ECML Project which can be carried either in English or in French.Check my blog and the blogroll. … Read more

ECML Blogging Project

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Mario Camilieri and Peter Ford had already invited me last year to join the ECML Blogging Project as a guest to comment on several students’ and teachers’ blogs. I also opened my own blog: Bee-Blogging from the Tropics there. Aaron Campbell posted about it onDekita after Peter outlined the project for us at the Blogstreams … Read more

Edu Tech Sig

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I have started the motion towards creating of an EduTech SIG for Braz-Tesol. I believe the moment is ripe as there is a growing need for how to engage in collaborative projects using technology. Many teachers still use the net passively, as a book, downloading material, submitting their students and being submitted to top-down practices, … Read more