Create a Penguin song!

Add the track of a song you have created for “the best spoken word samples from some of the greatest books of all times and the finest actors around”. The 29 samples include a variety of excerpts like H.G. Well’s Time Machine, Hans Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling, William Blake’s Selected Poetry,Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Lewis … Read more

MIT Weblog Survey

Cameron Marlow from the MIT Media Laboratory has launched a general social survey of the greater weblog community to help understand how weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. The survey is quick (about 15 minutes)and straighforward. Everyone who maintains a weblog is welcome (and encouraged) to take the survey. The larger … Read more

Introduction to podcasting in EFL/ESL

A special Blogstreams Salon Session (Tappedin ASO*) on Sunday June 19th at 21:00 GMT. This week, Barcelona-based teacher GRAHAM STANLEY will share with us his enthusiasm for podcasting, a new way of delivering audio content to students and other teachers that is growing more and more popular every month. A member of the new TEFL … Read more

One more quizz !

Recovered from Augustine’s blog. This is what I do when I am prevented from going to the countryside on weekends :-). I just must get culturally involved in the urban area when not in contact with inspiring natural environments. Yesterday I took a class to see Henry Moore’s exhibition (had already visited it twice) and … Read more

Webquest Workshop

Bernie Dodge Senac Workshop, originally uploaded by evo05. From 9:30 to 17:00 pm, about 50 teachers from Senac and other schools in Sao Paulo attended the workshop on webquests led by Bernie Dodge. The event also marked the soft launch of a new webquest editing tool that Bernie is developing and which will be released … Read more

Reunion of old friends at Senac, Sao Paulo

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Cannot believe it’s true!

This evening I met Bernie Dodge face to face at the presentation he was making at Senac, Sao Paulo. Why must I close my eyes when the flash sparks! In spite of closing my eyes, I managed to notice Bernie’s blue eyes matched his shirt! Well…here apparently I succeeded in opening them. It’s Mrs Dodge’s … Read more

23rd Tutor Mentor Conference

Every six months, Dan Bassil hosts a conference to gather people interested in tutoring/mentoring and helping kids move from poverty to careers. Have a look at the programme for the next eConference , which starts on May 6, 2005 hosted by Andy Pinçon and the Webheads in Action . Aaron and I will be presenting … Read more

Dekita!

Aaron Campbell, Rudolf Ammann and I have just launched Dekita after a very productive month of heated discussions 🙂 and intense collaboration. Dekita.org will highlight the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language) students, showcase the classroom Web-publishing projects in EFL /ESL and introduce links relevant to personal … Read more