Michael Coghlan is now presenting Hearing Online Voices in EFL/ESL on Yahoo Messenger for the BaW 06 Evo Session. 30 people present, among whom 3 Brazilians (Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel from Brasilia and myself in Sao Paulo). Aiden is explaining how she participated in an audio exchange with Michael and how the students became the … Read more
Interspersing and sharing some of my own findings while surfing. MFLE is the online service from Learning and Teaching Scotland and Scottish CILT which supports anyone working with modern languages in Scotland, from foreign language assistants and trainee teachers to teachers and principal teachers. They have published a good introduction to blogging in education. You … Read more
After the party in Sao Paulo, I slipped to touchbase with the family so I missed the sessions on Saturday. Andrea Calvozo, from SP and Nahir Aparicio from Venezuela posted their conversation about what happened on the ELT forum. You can also listen or download podcast of the interviews Sara and Mike did with various … Read more
The Evo 2006 6-week free workshops online are about to start. If you have not yet signed up, please do so until tomorrow (deadline). The session announcement briefly describes each session. By clicking on the link of the session, you are given the schedule and you can sign up at the bottom of each (blue … Read more
Julian Wing “blogged” David Graddol’s video-conference on the BC ELT Forum while Shaun has posted his impressions on his own blog. I am looking forward to your comments. Later in the evening, Mike and Barbara Thornton hosted a diner party at their beautiful house in Pinheiros to welcome the Hornby Summer School participants and tutors, … Read more
I have been buzzy, preparing and giving a workshop on blogs for the Hornby Summer School in Brazil. I have been experimenting with WordPress and have created both a Mother blog and a new personal one for the event. I think I will be switching there for the time being.
Margit introduced the Intercultural Competence strand this morning with 4 questions for reflection and organized a number of awarenes raising activities to illustrate these points. What is intercultural competence? How do we develop intercultural competence in our classrooms? How do we challenge stereotypes? How can we give our students a taste of different world English … Read more
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!
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
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