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 conversations but also talk to ex-students of mine, see my cousin, walk around, photograph and … Read more
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 all over the web and bring it together here since I uploaded a WP personal … Read more
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 Counterpoint, the cultural relations think tank of the British Council.
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 !
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.
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 would take a whole semester for me to train my stds to use it. I … Read more
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 housing a number of different discussion fora for advanced of IT in ELT. Not for … Read more
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.
– 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 which can be carried either in English or in French.Check my blog and the blogroll. … Read more
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 Campbell posted about it onDekita after Peter outlined the project for us at the Blogstreams … Read more
