Global Learn Day VIII

Global Learn Day starts on November 21st at 0:00 GMT(tonight at 10:00 pm in Sao Paulo, Brazil) and goes on non-stop for 24-hours. This yearly educational voyage around the 5 continents , initiated by John Hibbs from the Ben Franklin Institute, showcases highly innovative activities in education and internet technology. This year topics will cover: … Read more

22nd Tutor Mentor Conference

The 22nd Tutor Mentor Conference took place in Chicago on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th November in partnership with Digibridge (The Digital Workforce Education ), Tappedin and the WiA (Webheads in Action), an online community of practice I belong to. I had already participated in one of the audio-conferences with Gallistel Language Academy on October … Read more

Clumsy move

Lost my template once again…and had not saved it anywhere 🙁 so had to choose a new look. All the previous comments are on Haloscan…I wonder whether I can recover them and place them on the older posts. Must insert all my blogroll again, feed andall…argh. It is definitely the end of the year and … Read more

Podcasting: le dernier cri

After photoblogs,moblogs and videoblogs, podcasting is the most recent development to reach the educational blogosphere. D’Arcy Norman from The Learning Commons imagines a scenario where “students … subscribe to an RSS feed, and have recordings of every lecture automatically stored on their hard drive or iPod or whatnot for review” or “interviews with external resources”. … Read more

Belnate Conference

I am running late with my blogging. The previous message had been sitting in my draft for at least a month (had to correct the date)and this one is already past the event. Reporting quand même. Last week, Sergei Gridyushko (CALL) and Maya Bogova (TEFL Park Coordinator)from the Belarusian National Association of Teachers of English … Read more

Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL Classes: New Developments, Uses, and Challenges

Electronic Village Online (Evonline) is a professional development project and virtual extension of the 2005 TESOL Convention. Together with three other hard-core bloggers, Aaron P. Campbell, Sean Smith (a.k.a Blinger) and Graham Stanley, I will be moderating a six-week blogging session (on Yahoo Groups and Moodle from January 17th to February 27th. Participants REGISTER for … Read more

Hello from Minsk

Hi: Going blogging with Bee, Teresa and Buth was fun!!! I started two blogs with my students at http://www.blogger.com Check out: http://onlinewriting.blogspot.com http://upstreamwriting.blogspot.com/ Seems like they are taking a shine to it! SergeiG