A Porfolio
Josie Fraser (read EdTechUK) is organizing blog.ac.uk , the UK’s first educational blogging conference on Friday, June 2nd. Keynote speakers include Barbara Ganley and Stephen Downes. I have invited Josie to share with us her insights and impressions on the event on June 4th 21:00 GMT at our monthly Blogstreams Salon meeting at Tappedin. Join … Read more
Although in July teachers in Brazil enjoy a month of winter holidays, there is work ahead. From 8th to 11the July, I will be attending the Braz-Tesol National Convention, both as a presenter (Networking the network) and the coordinator of the newly created EduTech SIG. Leo van Lier from the Monterey Institute of the International Studies has … Read more
Dekita.org celebrated yesterday its first bloganniversary. Aaron and I played the piano 4 hands for the anniversary post and Rudolf collected and displayed a number of long forgotten screenshots from the early days. This has been a hell of a collaboration 🙂 Lots of blood, sweat and tears (and fun and love). Happy birthday and … Read more
Jeff Lebow launched yesterday the new WiA (Webheads in Action) portal on Drupal. Check out the video-tour prepared for the occasion. I love the possibility to connect with all the other members through its aggregating system and the podcasts to the main conferences stored on the site. Way to go! Thanks Jeff!
Hot off the press: Web 2.0 Awards!. We have been using some of the sites listed very successfully in education especially in the area of podcasting, photography, bookmarking, collaborative writing, social networking and tagging. Check out the short list! Quick reminder to what Web 2.0 stands for: user generated and/or user influenced content applications that … Read more
To launch the recently published book “English Next” by David Graddol, British Council Sao Paulo organized a video-conference debate with a SP panel of three experts (Lynn Mario de Souza from USP, Claudia Costin , ex- secretary of Culture for the State of SP and now vice-president of the Victor Civita Foundation and Guy Gerlach … Read more
Next Sunday March 5th at 21:00 GMT (check WorldClock for your time ) I will be hosting a Blogstreams Salon event at Tappedin. I will be talking about different blogging projects I am participating in with my classes this year and explaining how to connect your learners to other projects and classes through Dekita.org. Two … Read more
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
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
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.