Miscellaneous

In Simon’s World, through Blinger’s Linguistic and ESL Blog: Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask Fun reading and most informative. Another article you might enjoy in Natalie d’ Arbeloff’s: Addicted to Blogging? from her excellent cartoon-blog BLAUGUSTINE and with so many posts on one single day, I temporarily retire … Read more

Surfing yesterday on the subject of blogs, I came across this very interesting paper by Martin Roell ” Distributed KM – Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing , presented to BlogTalk 2.0, “The European Conference on Weblogs”, Vienna, July 5th and 6th 2004. It “explores the failure of traditional … Read more

Last Wednesday August 25th, I had the audio workshop on blogs for Cyberlangues on Alado (details posted in the previous message). Together with me in the computer room at the Lycée Pasteur in Sao Paulo, nine teachers and two students of mine, who came to give their testimonials on how they view blogging in the … Read more

J’aimerai beaucoup que quelqu’un qui a fait l’ atelier blogue puisse me donner une idée de ce qui c’ est passé à Cyberlangues. Est-ce que j’ ai des volontaires pour bloguer les divers ateliers, repas et ambiance? Il est dur d’ être si loin et deconnectée 🙁

Vous trouverez l’ enregistrement de la conférence sur la platforme Alado ici. Vous aurez ma voix, la projection des diapos et la fenêtre avec les commentaires texte. Ouverture et Première Partie (Introduction, Description et Caractéristiques) Deuxième Partie (Types des blogues) Fin (Main à la pâte) Vouz pouvez aussi le trouver sur le site Alado destiné … Read more

Malgré quelques problèmes avec les diapositives ici à Orléans, Barbara s’est très bien sortie de son intervention… et on peut même dire que j’ai le sentiment d’avoir assisté à une sorte de miracle: le temps s’est supendu, et en même temps les distances ont disparu puisque l’on communiquait des quatre coins de la planète en … Read more

Me voici, ce soir, à la veille de la présentation. Je pense que je suis prête et j’ espère que je n’ aurai pas de problèmes de connexion comme lundi dernier. J’ ai tout révisé, mes notes sont imprimés et les diapos , que j’ ai mises sur une page htm, sont téléchargées sur le … Read more

Cyberlangues is a French association of foreign language teachers who use CALL and new technologies in their classrooms. Every year since 2000, teachers have been getting together f2f for three days in summer to share their practice and experience. This year, the colloquium will take place on 24th, 25th and 26th August in Orléans and … Read more

Almost a month without posting! Shame on you, Bee! Well…I have been busy as you can see, dearest readers. From July 20th to 30th, I was away from the computer, travelling with 5 students of mine visiting Rio and travelling along the coast to Sao Paulo with a stopover in Parati (lovely little colonial town). … Read more

Blogger has changed its working interface… It is now much more user-friendly for newbies as it offers the possibility of changing the font and size, adding colours, bullets, blockquotes without them having to tamper with the html code. Claude however signals there although it works well on Mozilla and IE there are still some bugs … Read more