Tag Archives: Miscellaneous

Tesol, WiA and New York

I am back home in São Paulo after an exhausting but delightful 10-day stay in the Big Apple, where I not only had the opportunity to attend some great presentations, meet up with the webheads in action, extend contacts and … Continue reading

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Electronic Portfolios

Via Nancy McKeand I got this reference to Dr Helen Barret’s how to create an electronic portfolio using WordPress, which is what I have been showing my stds to do. I have been also trying to collect my stuff scattered … Continue reading

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Unbounded Freedom

Unbounded Freedom is a very recent blog and also a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organizations by Rosemary Bechler, a freelance writer and commissioning editor who helped to found Open Democracy. The guide can be downloaded from the … Continue reading

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Wide Open Spaces

Please update your feeds! Now that WordPress offers an import and export feature, I have moved all the content from all my blogs to Wide Open Spaces. Open house. See you there !

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English Conversations

English conversations (Practical Conversations for Language Learners) is a series of podcasts for EFL/ESL learners produced by Aaron Campbell and Mark White. Check out their stories on Africa, Thai and Japanese culture and themes like skin colour and feminism.

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WordPress as personal learning space

I am going to make an experiment. I do not have Moodle and do not feel like going into the trouble of installing and learning how to operate one now, first because I do not like it and second  because it … Continue reading

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Educational podcasting for teaching and learning

Through Eric Baber, a link to a comprehensive directory with over 2500 podcast channels for teaching and learning made in the UK, with tips for educators, video-channels and a weblog. Eric has also just opened an ExtremeTechnoELT community on Moodle … Continue reading

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English Next

You can already download from the British Council site English Next 2006 (pdf file), a provocative report on the changing nature of English as a foreign language written by David Graddol, British applied linguist and researcher.

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2006 at School

– A quick update from this side of the world . Our school year has just started and I have taken to blogging with my classes again I have plugged my 39 10th graders (2 classes) into the ECML Project … Continue reading

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ECML Blogging Project

Mario Camilieri and Peter Ford had already invited me last year to join the ECML Blogging Project as a guest to comment on several students’ and teachers’ blogs. I also opened my own blog: Bee-Blogging from the Tropics there. Aaron … Continue reading

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