I have started the motion towards creating of an EduTech SIG for Braz-Tesol. I believe the moment is ripe as there is a growing need for how to engage in collaborative projects using technology. Many teachers still use the net passively, as a book, downloading material, submitting their students and being submitted to top-down practices, … Read more
All reports written by the summer school participants and the recorded interviews can be consulted from links on one page of the British Council ELT community website.
This year the Blogstreams Salon meetings will be held only once a month, on every first Sunday of the month at 21:00 GMT. For these occasions we will bring special guests to share with you the projects they are working on or just chat about blogging/podcasting/videocasting in general. Extra sessions may happen if the need … Read more
Interspersing and sharing some of my own findings while surfing. MFLE is the online service from Learning and Teaching Scotland and Scottish CILT which supports anyone working with modern languages in Scotland, from foreign language assistants and trainee teachers to teachers and principal teachers. They have published a good introduction to blogging in education. You … Read more
After the party in Sao Paulo, I slipped to touchbase with the family so I missed the sessions on Saturday. Andrea Calvozo, from SP and Nahir Aparicio from Venezuela posted their conversation about what happened on the ELT forum. You can also listen or download podcast of the interviews Sara and Mike did with various … Read more
The Evo 2006 6-week free workshops online are about to start. If you have not yet signed up, please do so until tomorrow (deadline). The session announcement briefly describes each session. By clicking on the link of the session, you are given the schedule and you can sign up at the bottom of each (blue … Read more
Julian Wing “blogged” David Graddol’s video-conference on the BC ELT Forum while Shaun has posted his impressions on his own blog. I am looking forward to your comments. Later in the evening, Mike and Barbara Thornton hosted a diner party at their beautiful house in Pinheiros to welcome the Hornby Summer School participants and tutors, … Read more
Margit introduced the Intercultural Competence strand this morning with 4 questions for reflection and organized a number of awarenes raising activities to illustrate these points. What is intercultural competence? How do we develop intercultural competence in our classrooms? How do we challenge stereotypes? How can we give our students a taste of different world English … 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