Hot off the press: Web 2.0 Awards!. We have been using some of the sites listed very successfully in education especially in the area of podcasting, photography, bookmarking, collaborative writing, social networking and tagging. Check out the short list! Quick reminder to what Web 2.0 stands for: user generated and/or user influenced content applications that … Read more
To launch the recently published book “English Next” by David Graddol, British Council Sao Paulo organized a video-conference debate with a SP panel of three experts (Lynn Mario de Souza from USP, Claudia Costin , ex- secretary of Culture for the State of SP and now vice-president of the Victor Civita Foundation and Guy Gerlach … Read more
– Karla Lopez sent me a link to George Siemens’ presentation on Connectivism: Re-thinking learning.
Got this indication through Isabel Teixeira from Brasilia. Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. Update: First experience – shot some short sequences of my dogs this Sunday MARCH 19TH View this clip on Vimeo View this clip on Vimeo [videoblogs]
Flagr is another easy and cool WEb 2.0 tool for “everyone to share where they go, while on the go”. Do it online or through your mobile phone- send in your photos and attach them to your flag. [Web2.0]
James Farmer has just launched Eslblog.org , a hosting service which provides “blogs for ESL / EFL students wherever they happen to be”. I wonder in which way these blogs will be different from the others. Will they have special features language learners can benefit of, like concordancers, dictionaries, spelling correctors, an embedded podcast facility? … Read more
Getting my students acknowledge their sources and making them understand that photographs that they find out there do belong to someone and may be copyright is an uphill battle. I hope no longer! I have just got mail through Vivência Pedagógica, a Brazilian community of educators interested in exchanging ICT experience and resources. Prof Eziquiel … Read more
Next Sunday March 5th at 21:00 GMT (check WorldClock for your time ) I will be hosting a Blogstreams Salon event at Tappedin. I will be talking about different blogging projects I am participating in with my classes this year and explaining how to connect your learners to other projects and classes through Dekita.org. Two … Read more