A Porfolio
Le Web 3.0 is almost over in Paris. Here are some links to presentations which I received from the Barcamp Brasil list. Ewan Mc Intosh from Scotland and Mario Asselin from Canada were some of the educators present. The only Brazilian on the list was Andre Avorio (read Etribes and Blaz) , organizer of the … Read more
La Clase Abierta (The Open Classroom) is a blog in Spanish published by Isabel Leal, a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language, who worked both in Rumania and France, and her brother Jose Leal, who works for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Spain and contributes regularly to Aula and Diagonal, El Mundo educational supplements. … Read more
Sean McDunnoough must have noticed I was in SL earlier (or guessed I was there) as he skyped me immediately introducing me to BlogHud, a blogging system for residents in Second Life, or as they poetically put it, a live stream of consciousness and experience from another place. It allows the owner to easily post … Read more
Last weekend I was at my parents (85 and 79). I happened to read an article about SL in a local magazine and started commenting it with my mother who could not understand what I was talking about. As they now have a very impressive system at home (an uncluttered Pentium 4 and broadband connection), … Read more
FlickrCC is an ingenious hack signed by Peter Shanks, allowing you to easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license. I will suggest it as a must-have on all my students’ blogs. There is a long list of royalty-free photographs on del.icio.us dekita as well.
During the FLNW trip, the participants’ adjusting to each other and interaction triggered different reactions, which, as I see it, depend on a number of factors such as our different backgrounds, awareness of the other or lack of it, experience in similar situations, previous and/or future expectations, the importance given to certain contexts, the number … Read more
Interesting news for language teachers in an article which has just been published on the SiliconRepublic.com, an Irish Technology News Service. “Enovation has emerged as the sole IT provider for a prestigious EU-wide project that will see universities deploy language courses by mobile devices like phones, iPods and PDAs. The project, entitled ‘Europodians’, involves working … Read more
A ten-day road tour in New Zealand visiting educational centers and talking to different people involved in education: university researchers, vocational school representatives and members from different learning and teaching communities got together to exchange ideas on the future of learning in a networked world. It should be pointed out that most participants were from … Read more
The Digital Directors Guild provides pedagogical and technical resources, examples, tips and forum to help teachers with digital movie making so they can guide the students to create their own videos.
A very nifty piece of software being developed by Brazilian Alex Primo and team. http://www.co-link.org/ It encourages participatory creation of hypertexts, allowing reader to create new associative links in a pre-existent text and/or add new destinations to a previous link, contributing to the blurring of the frontier between reader and writer on the Web.