Miscellaneous

I have not been posting here for some time…I guess one cannot be at a hundred places at the same time …even if virtually it does seem easier. I have been participating at a collaborative experience at Moodle. Karen Garcia, who did the BaW in February invited interested participants to join her in the exploration … Read more

Blogger has just just been revamped – a gift for Mother’s Day! I like the new look. It is clean, well-organized and very visual. I am sure my students will find their directions more easily. I am curious about what they are going to say. I have also installed a Google bar to my browser … Read more

I have just enrolled for the Australian Flexible Learning Community. and while updating my profile, Geoffrey Kaye from CompuED sent me a message. You can see who is logged in and text chat with members online. He was surprised to see someone from Brazil in an Australian AFLC ccommunity. (webheads are impossible! ). He asked … Read more

I have just received a link to a short video (in French) featuring Bernard Garcin and Mary Vernet from France explaining project WKTO (Cartable Electronique – link recovered through Wayback Machine, in which my classes took part last year. I was invited to lead an international class in this environment (link recovered through Wayback Machine) as … Read more

I have just finished a 3-hour session online for the Tesol Arabia, during which Vance Stevens presented the webheads and what they do. We met at Learning Times. I was up at 2 am as there is a 7-hour difference between us…but had a nice cup of strong Brazilian coffee and the sleep wore off … Read more

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