Snap shirts
Snap shirts Originally uploaded by beewebhead. Snapshirtsgenerates a word cloud from words you enter or from your blog. You can then print this on a T-shirts, mugs or mousepads. Simple, fun and ingenious.
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Beewebhead’s Webgraph
Beewebhead’s Web Originally uploaded by beewebhead. This is the graph for Bee-coming a Webhead and I have made another one for my other blog at WordPress. It’s fun to see the little dots expanding and connecting. Both look like an informal English landscape garden, full of flowers. I wonder what the different colours mean and … Read more
Foreign languages, identity and intercultural competence
I am the mentor for the Young Caucasus Project during this coming Easter week (April 9th to 16th) . The subject of languages, identity and intercultural competence is very close to my heart as I have been exposed to it all my life and this is why I would like to hear what you have … Read more
Vimeo
Got this indication through Isabel Teixeira from Brasilia. Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. Update: First experience – shot some short sequences of my dogs this Sunday MARCH 19TH View this clip on Vimeo View this clip on Vimeo [videoblogs]
Get Creative
Getting my students acknowledge their sources and making them understand that photographs that they find out there do belong to someone and may be copyright is an uphill battle. I hope no longer! I have just got mail through Vivência Pedagógica, a Brazilian community of educators interested in exchanging ICT experience and resources. Prof Eziquiel … Read more
Happy birthday
Today WordPress gave Sergio a birthday gift by sending him the long-awaited password so he was able to make his first post on the newly created blog. A date and an event to remember 🙂 Happy birthday, Sergio and wishes for a long blogging life!
The role of language and critical literacy 2
Notes taken during Mario T. Menezes Souza presentation on the role of language and critical literacy. Critical Literacy Literacy as Social Practice and not as decodification of alphabetic script Reading as social practice – texts are read in contexts Each context is socially constructed and defined and has its own genres of texts and practices … Read more
The Role of Language and Critical Literacy 1
Notes taken during Mario T. Menezes Souza presentation on the role of language and critical literacy. Lynn starts the talk by asking us to revise our pre-conceptions of education, culture and projects a picture of Robison Crusoe and Good Friday kneeling at his feet. He cites Chakrabarthy´s book Provincializing Europe and stresses the need for … Read more
Global Issues
Vanessa Andreotti started a new thread this morning: Global Issues: Reading the World. The session in the morning was based on group work with different people reporting back on the result of their discussions. In the first activity, participants were separated in three different groups to role-play three different perspectives on learning English. Teachers, parents … Read more
Sharing a personal narrative
Margit asked if people had stories to tell…well…I just happen to have a very personal one…which I prepared out of fun…online. Practising how to use Windows Photo Story 🙂 Care to check it out?