A Porfolio
English conversations (Practical Conversations for Language Learners) is a series of podcasts for EFL/ESL learners produced by Aaron Campbell and Mark White. Check out their stories on Africa, Thai and Japanese culture and themes like skin colour and feminism.
I am going to make an experiment. I do not have Moodle and do not feel like going into the trouble of installing and learning how to operate one now, first because I do not like it and second because it would take a whole semester for me to train my stds to use it. I … Read more
After much grafting and pruning, the Dekita Orchard is now open to the public. There is a variety of trees and fruit from all corners of the planet, as the Orchard aggregates feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange. The Orchard helps find the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties to … Read more
Through Eric Baber, a link to a comprehensive directory with over 2500 podcast channels for teaching and learning made in the UK, with tips for educators, video-channels and a weblog. Eric has also just opened an ExtremeTechnoELT community on Moodle housing a number of different discussion fora for advanced of IT in ELT. Not for … Read more
– Karla Lopez sent me a link to George Siemens’ presentation on Connectivism: Re-thinking learning.
Flagr is another easy and cool WEb 2.0 tool for “everyone to share where they go, while on the go”. Do it online or through your mobile phone- send in your photos and attach them to your flag. [Web2.0]
James Farmer has just launched Eslblog.org , a hosting service which provides “blogs for ESL / EFL students wherever they happen to be”. I wonder in which way these blogs will be different from the others. Will they have special features language learners can benefit of, like concordancers, dictionaries, spelling correctors, an embedded podcast facility? … Read more
You can already download from the British Council site English Next 2006 (pdf file), a provocative report on the changing nature of English as a foreign language written by David Graddol, British applied linguist and researcher.
Bubbleshare allows you to create your personal narrative by letting you upload a photo album and voice captions to go with it. Read how Aaron places it in the EFL/ESL classroom together with iPods and let your imagination wander. Things are becoming easier and easier and there are no technical excuses for not transforming your … Read more
– A quick update from this side of the world . Our school year has just started and I have taken to blogging with my classes again I have plugged my 39 10th graders (2 classes) into the ECML Project which can be carried either in English or in French.Check my blog and the blogroll. … Read more