I must say I have not been actively blogging here lately…however, this is not laziness..I have a two-week autumn break from school so I went away for some days. I was also invited to write an article on blogs in language learning for the Tesol Essential Teacher magazine so I spent some time collecting information … Read more

My 8th grade students had much fun today learning their irregular verbs. Instead of giving them the usual exercises to practise or memorize the 3 columns and the translation, I asked them to make the exercises themselves using Mike Capstick´s Quiz generator for the Bankrupt Game . I posted the instructions on bloki, which they … Read more

I opened an account with Bloki after a suggestion given by Isabel Perez in the webheads group. According to the Bloki introductory page, Bloki is a web site on which you can create web pages, publish a blog, and host online discussions, right in your browser, with no additional software required. I have 54 students … Read more

My son, a young college student, has no time to go to a language school to perfect his English. He did two or three holiday courses but would like to stay in contact with the language and develop his reading and understanding. When he was at high school, mother and teacher struggled to share some … Read more

Peter Twining, Senior Lecturer in Education from The Centre for Curriculum and Teaching Studies (CATS) at The Open University, UK has devised a questionnaire which explores views on whether ICT should be an essential element of education and what rationales should drive its use. The questionnaire was developed in the light of evidence that suggests … Read more

Evonline 2004 Becoming a Webhead finished last week – this online workshop, which I would call more of a jamboree because of its friendly and informal atmosphere, connected about 120 teachers from all over the world. For 6 weeks, we had speakers presenting their work, we interacted and collaborated daily, sharing a variety of synchronous … Read more

Spent half of the afternoon trying to imagine how to format a blog for my students who are doing TPE (Travaux Personnels Encadrés). These are the French counterpart for project based learning. Students are required to have a carnet de bord (logbook) to record their research and work trajectory which will lead them to defining … Read more

I have just downloaded bloggar – an interface between you and blogger which gives you more flexibility to edit your posts. It is freeeware, easy to post and much more efficient than Blogjet. I am going to suggest it to some of my students who would like to jazz up their blogs without having to … Read more

I have just come back from my four-day weekend in the countryside, where I spent the Carnival holidays. It was pouring with rain and I did not manage to go hiking or do any kind of exercise except for correcting homework, lifting the fork and glass, zapping the TV channels to see the different samba … Read more

Yesterday evening about 20 BaWs joined me at the BaW presentation at Tappedin. I structured the presentation around the questions I had received and decided to answer them by writing and illustrating the different phases in an e-book. This, I believe, gave some added value to the presentation as teachers also became acquainted with a … Read more