Miscellaneous

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

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

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

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

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.

Listen to Robin’s Good (Masternewmedia and Kolabora) Sychronous Collaboration Tools for the Academic World , a 30-minute voice presentation of 45 slides using Macromedia Breeze. Clear and informative as usual, a must hear for people interested in using new, easy-to use and cost-effective breed of tools for classes, presentations and training. Also by Robin Good, … Read more

In Simon’s World, through Blinger’s Linguistic and ESL Blog: Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask Fun reading and most informative. Another article you might enjoy in Natalie d’ Arbeloff’s: Addicted to Blogging? from her excellent cartoon-blog BLAUGUSTINE and with so many posts on one single day, I temporarily retire … Read more

Surfing yesterday on the subject of blogs, I came across this very interesting paper by Martin Roell ” Distributed KM – Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing , presented to BlogTalk 2.0, “The European Conference on Weblogs”, Vienna, July 5th and 6th 2004. It “explores the failure of traditional … Read more

Last Wednesday August 25th, I had the audio workshop on blogs for Cyberlangues on Alado (details posted in the previous message). Together with me in the computer room at the Lycée Pasteur in Sao Paulo, nine teachers and two students of mine, who came to give their testimonials on how they view blogging in the … Read more

J’aimerai beaucoup que quelqu’un qui a fait l’ atelier blogue puisse me donner une idée de ce qui c’ est passé à Cyberlangues. Est-ce que j’ ai des volontaires pour bloguer les divers ateliers, repas et ambiance? Il est dur d’ être si loin et deconnectée 🙁