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While surfing on the net, trying to find a personality test for my classes I came across this one, which is quite interesting. It gives you 126 questions to answer and the results display a number of nouns and adjectives. Fun exercise in reading. I have answered TRUTHFULLY and here are my results. Do they … Read more
Bernie Dodge’s Quest Garden, an online authoring tool, community and hosting service designed to make the creation of high quality WebQuests easier and quicker, will be opened to the world on September 1st. QuestGarden is an apt metaphor for a community garden which will provide all the resources needed for users to plant many trees … Read more
HB_Bee, originally uploaded by anark. I’d like to publicly thank all the birthday wishes from former students on Orkut, cards and warm words from friends, webheads in action and also share with you one of the most cherished birthday gifts (after Pinky, the iPod) I received this year. A hand-made card from artist and friend … Read more
I have just logged into this blog today and realized that I have not posted anything since June. This is the first time in two years I skip a month here. Not that it matters so much, but for someone who has been blogevangelizing for some time, this is not a good example to set … Read more
Add the track of a song you have created for “the best spoken word samples from some of the greatest books of all times and the finest actors around”. The 29 samples include a variety of excerpts like H.G. Well’s Time Machine, Hans Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling, William Blake’s Selected Poetry,Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Lewis … Read more
Recovered from Augustine’s blog. This is what I do when I am prevented from going to the countryside on weekends :-). I just must get culturally involved in the urban area when not in contact with inspiring natural environments. Yesterday I took a class to see Henry Moore’s exhibition (had already visited it twice) and … Read more
Thanks to an anonymous comment tip some posts ago, I found you can start streaming your own video and audio broadcasts right from your PC by downloading Olive Link projector and viewer and link it to your site and/or blog. It is still in Beta version so it is out there for free. Worth a … Read more
I have just completed some of those quizzes you get online… Although I am not a native speaker of English, What Kind of American English Do You Speak? suggests the following linguistic profile: 55% General American English 30% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern My inner European is French, my taste in music … Read more
Ourmedia allows you to store video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media for free on their servers forever, as long as you are willing to share your works with a global audience. According to their mission statement, they are several things in one: – An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers – … Read more
I would like to make public the request for supportI got yesterday from the Centre for English Teacher Training in Budapest, Hungary. An unfair and insensitive cost-cutting campaign is putting at risk the survival of the centre. Highly respected academics with more than 20 years in the field are being sacked without any professional consideration. … Read more