Spent half of the afternoon trying to imagine how to format a blog for my students who are doing TPE (Travaux Personnels Encadrés). These are the French counterpart for project based learning. Students are required to have a carnet de bord (logbook) to record their research and work trajectory which will lead them to defining … Read more
I have just downloaded bloggar – an interface between you and blogger which gives you more flexibility to edit your posts. It is freeeware, easy to post and much more efficient than Blogjet. I am going to suggest it to some of my students who would like to jazz up their blogs without having to … Read more
I have just come back from my four-day weekend in the countryside, where I spent the Carnival holidays. It was pouring with rain and I did not manage to go hiking or do any kind of exercise except for correcting homework, lifting the fork and glass, zapping the TV channels to see the different samba … Read more
Yesterday evening about 20 BaWs joined me at the BaW presentation at Tappedin. I structured the presentation around the questions I had received and decided to answer them by writing and illustrating the different phases in an e-book. This, I believe, gave some added value to the presentation as teachers also became acquainted with a … Read more
I have managed to bring the blog back to form, but do not remember if this is the way it looked before and if all the links on the right hand side are there. If you notice some that are missing, please let me know.
I have just accidentally erased my template page completely when instead of clicking on preview, I saved it. …argh Fortunately the posts have not disappeared, but I have lost all the changes I had made to it (colours, layout, comments and links) 🙁 Will have to work on it again!
I am back in Sao Paulo after three very full days in Curitiba. When I started writing on Saturday about it, I thought I would be able to sit down and write my impressions after the sessions but this was just as impossible as go to sleep at a normal hour…lol On Sunday we stayed … Read more
I have just arrived in Curitiba in the state of Paraná to take part in the Intercultural Studies Seminar led by professors from the University of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul, Braz-Tesol Teacher Education SIG and sponsored by the British Council. The aim is to design and develop web-based ELT materials for intercultural education … Read more
This evening Michael Coghlan (TAFE – Australia) gave a very interesting voice conference presentation on Yahoo Messenger showing us the advantages of using this kind of tool in teaching. There were about 35 webheads present, listening, questioning online and also participating through text chat. Michael had previously prepared a PPT presentation which the participants downloaded … Read more
Today I had a most productive class in Polish on YM (both text chat and voice) with Agata from Poland and Babi from Hungary. Agata is a native speaker, formally educated in the language and living in Poland. Babi is Hungarian, learning Polish (chatting with a native speaker once a week but mostly on her … Read more