A Porfolio
Full house at Tappedin last Sunday. 33 people from all over the world gathered for the Blogstreams Salon live chat with Ewan Mc Intosh. Ewan presented the blogging project with his students on a field trip to France and how fruitful and rewarding the experience was for all parties involved: students, parents, educators and management. … Read more
This year the Blogstreams Salon meetings will be held only once a month, on every first Sunday of the month at 21:00 GMT. For these occasions we will bring special guests to share with you the projects they are working on or just chat about blogging/podcasting/videocasting in general. Extra sessions may happen if the need … Read more
Michael Coghlan is now presenting Hearing Online Voices in EFL/ESL on Yahoo Messenger for the BaW 06 Evo Session. 30 people present, among whom 3 Brazilians (Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel from Brasilia and myself in Sao Paulo). Aiden is explaining how she participated in an audio exchange with Michael and how the students became the … Read more
Interspersing and sharing some of my own findings while surfing. MFLE is the online service from Learning and Teaching Scotland and Scottish CILT which supports anyone working with modern languages in Scotland, from foreign language assistants and trainee teachers to teachers and principal teachers. They have published a good introduction to blogging in education. You … Read more
After the party in Sao Paulo, I slipped to touchbase with the family so I missed the sessions on Saturday. Andrea Calvozo, from SP and Nahir Aparicio from Venezuela posted their conversation about what happened on the ELT forum. You can also listen or download podcast of the interviews Sara and Mike did with various … Read more
The Evo 2006 6-week free workshops online are about to start. If you have not yet signed up, please do so until tomorrow (deadline). The session announcement briefly describes each session. By clicking on the link of the session, you are given the schedule and you can sign up at the bottom of each (blue … Read more
Julian Wing “blogged” David Graddol’s video-conference on the BC ELT Forum while Shaun has posted his impressions on his own blog. I am looking forward to your comments. Later in the evening, Mike and Barbara Thornton hosted a diner party at their beautiful house in Pinheiros to welcome the Hornby Summer School participants and tutors, … Read more
I have been buzzy, preparing and giving a workshop on blogs for the Hornby Summer School in Brazil. I have been experimenting with WordPress and have created both a Mother blog and a new personal one for the event. I think I will be switching there for the time being.
Margit introduced the Intercultural Competence strand this morning with 4 questions for reflection and organized a number of awarenes raising activities to illustrate these points. What is intercultural competence? How do we develop intercultural competence in our classrooms? How do we challenge stereotypes? How can we give our students a taste of different world English … Read more
Today WordPress gave Sergio a birthday gift by sending him the long-awaited password so he was able to make his first post on the newly created blog. A date and an event to remember 🙂 Happy birthday, Sergio and wishes for a long blogging life!