Incorporated Subversion

Australian James Farmer’s online learning weblog Incorporated Subversion has moved to a new address. James has also decided to launch incsub. Through this new site he will provide hosting, consultation and support for educators interested in using technologies like blogs and wikis. Wonderful interface and clean design. Thank you James and spreading the word 🙂

Webcollaborator

I have some presentations to make with people from different parts of the world and was trying to find a light, easy, no frills free environment to get together, brainstorm and outline a project. I discovered Webcollaborator , which has just been launched, and I feel that until now it has satisfied my needs. It … Read more

Multiliteracies & Collaborative Learning

Vance Stevens is leading a TESOL Certificate Program course: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments from September 13 until October 10. It’s an online course providing experiential training in the technological skills required to develop effective strategies for utilizing video, web cam, image, and voice technologies in communities of practice as enhancements to collaborative learning settings. … Read more

Hearing Every Voice – with the help of the Internet

This is the title of the workshop given my Michael Coghlan for Clesol2004, taking place in Christchurch, New Zealand from September24th- 27th. More than 10 webheads from different parts of the world (Brazil, Colombia, Taiwan, Kuwait, USA, Japan) were online to greet and interact with the participants or left their messages in the various environments … Read more

Posting photos to blogger

This wonderful drawing called “My Spirit Helpers” was done by Reg Davidson (Haida). Although it is online, I had saved it in my image folder as I am very much attracted to this art. I have just posted it using BloggerBot, a tool by Hello, which allows you to store images online. It automatically sends … Read more

Using LiveJournal for Authentic Communication in EFL Classes

Aaron Patric Campbell ( The New Tanuki) has just published a short paper on the use of Live Journal in his EFL classes in the Internet TESL Journal for Teachers of English. “This paper describes a way for teachers to set-up and facilitate authentic international communication in the EFL classroom using LiveJournal.com: a free, hosted … Read more

Transatlantic Howl! A Dedication to Allen Ginsberg

Retrieved from a posting on CETEFL List … a world- wide transatlantic poetic happening … but only available to those with an Internet 2 connection or who are living in Paris and London, unfortunately 🙁 Thursday 14 October 2004 2:00 pm EDT (additional times listed below) In this history-making transatlantic poetic happening, celebrating Allen Ginsberg … Read more

Staying connected: sustaining an online learning community

Set my alarm clock to the wee hours of the morning (2:30 am here) to hear Michael Coghlan’s (a.k.a The Voice) directly from Noah’s on the Beach in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. This audio-conference , recorded on Learning Times (http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=530396) , was part of the 3rd Australian Learning Communities Conference: Be Shaken – Learning for Change. … Read more

Unesco conference on education

From 8th to 11th September, Geneva hosted the international conference on education organized by Unesco. Theme: “Quality education for all young people: Challenges, trends and priorities”. The official site has full reports on educational systems of about a hundred countries, in French and Spanish as well.