Josie Fraser (read EdTechUK) is organizing blog.ac.uk , the UK’s first educational blogging conference on Friday, June 2nd. Keynote speakers include Barbara Ganley and Stephen Downes. I have invited Josie to share with us her insights and impressions on the event on June 4th 21:00 GMT at our monthly Blogstreams Salon meeting at Tappedin. Join … Read more
After much grafting and pruning, the Dekita Orchard is now open to the public. There is a variety of trees and fruit from all corners of the planet, as the Orchard aggregates feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange. The Orchard helps find the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties to … Read more
Although in July teachers in Brazil enjoy a month of winter holidays, there is work ahead. From 8th to 11the July, I will be attending the Braz-Tesol National Convention, both as a presenter (Networking the network) and the coordinator of the newly created EduTech SIG. Leo van Lier from the Monterey Institute of the International Studies has … Read more
Dekita.org celebrated yesterday its first bloganniversary. Aaron and I played the piano 4 hands for the anniversary post and Rudolf collected and displayed a number of long forgotten screenshots from the early days. This has been a hell of a collaboration 🙂 Lots of blood, sweat and tears (and fun and love). Happy birthday and … Read more