Vanessa Andreotti started a new thread this morning: Global Issues: Reading the World. The session in the morning was based on group work with different people reporting back on the result of their discussions. In the first activity, participants were separated in three different groups to role-play three different perspectives on learning English. Teachers, parents … Read more
Read Chris Lima’s report on Dave´s session on Internet Genre analysis . On the same British Council ELT page you will also be able to download the interview Mike Thornton did with Margit Szesztay, Brazil Hornby School Director but as it is in wav format I have converted it to mp3 in the Summer School … Read more
This afternoon I gave the workshop on blogging. Autonomy was indeed required while participants struggled to open their accounts on WordPress.com. There were too many people signing in so I suppose the server could not process all requests at the same time. It was also very difficult to hear the two podcasts, one made by … Read more
Nahir Aparicio from Caracas, Venezuela sent her summary of Kanavillil Rajagopalan´s to the British Council site. Yony Cardenas and Maria Esther Linares from Lima, Peru report on their impressions of the first day. Check out Vanessa Andreotti´s first blog post on David´s session.
Margit asked if people had stories to tell…well…I just happen to have a very personal one…which I prepared out of fun…online. Practising how to use Windows Photo Story 🙂 Care to check it out?
– I drove to the hotel early this morning (it´s only 45 minutes away from my country house) to be here at the opening session. All participants arrived here yesterday. It´s a very nice group composed of 29 participants (18 from different places all over Brasil and 11 from other Latin American countries: Argentina, Chile, … Read more
– I have started two other blogs, but not on Blogger this time. I want to experiment with WordPress as I will be giving a workshop on Blogging Towards Autonomy during the Hornby Summer School next Tuesday, January 10th. I do not know whether this is a wise move, as most of the participants, according … Read more
– Anne Davis is an edublogger and works with faculty, staff, and students in the area of instructional technology at the University of Georgia, USA. In Edublog Insights, which won the 2005 Edublog Awards in the best teacher blog category, she reflects, discusses, and explores the possibilities of blogging in the classroom. Here is some … Read more
most of the content from this page, which came from the http://bdieu.wordpress.com blog composes now the about page of this one.
most of the content from this page, which came from the http://bdieu.wordpress.com blog composes now the about page of this one.
