I’m Barbara Dieu , EFL educator involved in international collaborative/ exchange projects online since 1997. I am presently teaching (very few hours), keynoting, giving workshops on new media literacies, and developing projects using social tools and international networking and bridging to advance language learning, multi-literacies and professional development.
I am particularly interested in how participatory media can be implemented in the different learning contexts, what issues block innovation/communication/learning and what is needed for educators to open up to global participation, innovation, creativity and change in local contexts. You can contact me at beeonline (at) gmail (dot) com.
My nickname online is Bee (not from Béatrice as one would expect – just a coincidence – I used to sign my letters B. and a friend sent me the Bee 
avatar 
, which I have now been using for years). A little bit more about me in this photostory (wmv file) I made for a workshop back in 2005.
I am Bee Kerouac in SL (this dates me chronologically and politically…but I am not part of the Beat generation…but confess I suffered the influence some years later). The SL avatar name choice is more intentional – I chose Kerouac because while blogging and networking in cyberspace, I somehow identified with the theme and how the book On the Road was written.
My old blog was called “wide open spaces…freedom to roam” because cyberspace has offered me this possibility to travel and meet different people and perspectives. Besides, as I have always felt claustrophobic and constrained by bureaucratic systems, groups or structures that fence me in, I need a clear horizon and wide open spaces before me. The blog has now been transported to a new address – and because of this, for the sake of consistency, I have re-named it Beespace but kept my freedom to roam 
Awards
- TOEFL Board Award for International Participation 2007
- Edublog Award 2005 for Best Group Blog (with Rudolf Ammann and Aaron Campbell)
- Edublog Award 2004 for Best Blog in Teaching and Learning
- Global Schoolnet Award Finalist 2004
- Schoolnet Global Schoolnet Award Finalist 2003
Here you will find links who will tell you a bit about me and what I have been up to until now.
International Projects Online (outline and explanation)
Professional Narrative (1997 – 2004)
Collaboration
NMC Horizon Project Report 2009 (pdf file)
NMC Horizon Project Report 2010
http://dekita.org
Dekita advocates participatory uses of Web applications in EFL/ESL teaching; we favor open approaches to language learning in which students get to engage the public Web instead of being locked into narrowly circumscribed online spaces.
Dekita highlights and showcases the writings and other artefacts shared online by EFL/ESL students involved in such open courses. The site also points out and discusses issues related to open sharing in language learning contexts.
FLNW (Future of Learning in a Networked World)
Beespace Office at Learning Times
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bee (photographs)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdieu (montages and collages)
Old Website: http://members.tripod.com/the_english_dept
Old Blogs (most posts were transported here)
http://bdieu/wordpress.com
http://beewebhead.blogspot.com
http://elgg.net/bdieu