Monthly Archives: February 2004

A reflective personal student blog for Project Based Learning

Spent half of the afternoon trying to imagine how to format a blog for my students who are doing TPE (Travaux Personnels Encadrés). These are the French counterpart for project based learning. Students are required to have a carnet de … Continue reading

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Bloggar

I have just downloaded bloggar – an interface between you and blogger which gives you more flexibility to edit your posts. It is freeeware, easy to post and much more efficient than Blogjet. I am going to suggest it to … Continue reading

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Carnival is over

I have just come back from my four-day weekend in the countryside, where I spent the Carnival holidays. It was pouring with rain and I did not manage to go hiking or do any kind of exercise except for correcting … Continue reading

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Presentation at Tapped IN: Blogging and Presence Online

Yesterday evening about 20 BaWs joined me at the BaW presentation at Tappedin. I structured the presentation around the questions I had received and decided to answer them by writing and illustrating the different phases in an e-book. This, I … Continue reading

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Done

I have managed to bring the blog back to form, but do not remember if this is the way it looked before and if all the links on the right hand side are there. If you notice some that are … Continue reading

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A disastrous move

I have just accidentally erased my template page completely when instead of clicking on preview, I saved it. …argh Fortunately the posts have not disappeared, but I have lost all the changes I had made to it (colours, layout, comments … Continue reading

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Back to School

I am back in Sao Paulo after three very full days in Curitiba. When I started writing on Saturday about it, I thought I would be able to sit down and write my impressions after the sessions but this was … Continue reading

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Intercultural Studies Seminar

I have just arrived in Curitiba in the state of Paraná to take part in the Intercultural Studies Seminar led by professors from the University of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul, Braz-Tesol Teacher Education SIG and sponsored by the … Continue reading

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The Use of Voice in Online Language Learning and Teaching

This evening Michael Coghlan (TAFE – Australia) gave a very interesting voice conference presentation on Yahoo Messenger showing us the advantages of using this kind of tool in teaching. There were about 35 webheads present, listening, questioning online and also … Continue reading

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Learning Polish

Today I had a most productive class in Polish on YM (both text chat and voice) with Agata from Poland and Babi from Hungary. Agata is a native speaker, formally educated in the language and living in Poland. Babi is … Continue reading

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