Travelling through the web

Preparing my presentation for the WiAOC where I will be highlighting how we can use social networking tools like Flickr, 43Places and 43 Things in the EFL/ESL class in the framework of the Dekita P2P Exchange project. From EFL Geek: ESL & EFL in Korea I got the address for this gadget which will surely … Read more

Blogging at Incorporated Subversion

Incorporated Subversion has just launched Learner Blogs, a free blogging service for K-12 schools. Together with Uniblogs for college and university students and Edublogs for educators, James Farmer (Australia) expands his empire 🙂 Do not miss Anne Bartlett-Bragg’s excellent paper on Blogging to Learn and James post on How to and How not to use … Read more

Conference Attention Modes

Interesting post by Lilia Efimova… Although she comments on f2f events and conferences, this made me think of conferences online I participated like Global Learn Day Events and the coming WiAOC convergence and was wondering whether they share the same characteristics. She mentions two extremes in f2f presentations: centralised/authority – “star performers” who can hold … Read more

A Day on Earth

Michel Benard invited me through Flickr to join him on the “A Day on Earth” project . His idea: let’s all on the planet, take a photograph on 09/29 and share it with the world on a common blog. I was in class this afternoon…this is what my common day is like in Sao Paulo. … Read more

WiA Online Convergence

The Webheads in Action Online Convergence is a free conference on EFL/ESL and CALL to be held entirely online this November 18-20, 2005. On the panel of invited speakers you will have David Nunan, Curtis Bonk, Dave Sperling, Joy Reid, and Randall Davis. The Web portal for the conference and the mirrors (for those who … Read more

Cyberlangues 2005

The 5th Cyberlangues three-day colloquium started this morning in Artigues(Bordeaux) featuring presenters from all over France. Last year, I had the pleasure to give a conference online and introduce participants to blogs and the blogosphere. This year, Gabriella Vernetto from Italy will take educators a step further with her workshop “Les blogs au service de … Read more

QuestGarden

Bernie Dodge’s Quest Garden, an online authoring tool, community and hosting service designed to make the creation of high quality WebQuests easier and quicker, will be opened to the world on September 1st. QuestGarden is an apt metaphor for a community garden which will provide all the resources needed for users to plant many trees … Read more

Blogging as freedom and as home

The Blogstreams Salon welcomes educators interested in blogging and international webpublishing projects. Members get together synchronously in the group room every Sunday at 21:00 GMT to chat informally, sort out doubts, examine and discuss innovative work, cutting-edge tools and international webpublishing projects. Once a month, we invite guests, experts in their fields, to make a … Read more

HB_Bee

HB_Bee, originally uploaded by anark. I’d like to publicly thank all the birthday wishes from former students on Orkut, cards and warm words from friends, webheads in action and also share with you one of the most cherished birthday gifts (after Pinky, the iPod) I received this year. A hand-made card from artist and friend … Read more

Back from Holidays

I have just logged into this blog today and realized that I have not posted anything since June. This is the first time in two years I skip a month here. Not that it matters so much, but for someone who has been blogevangelizing for some time, this is not a good example to set … Read more