tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63550892011-04-21T19:34:34.439-03:00Comments/ Links/Ideas on Blogging and Learning OnlineBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.comBlogger1431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1150234844560042922006-06-13T18:35:00.000-03:002006-10-25T11:16:21.713-03:00

Please update your feeds! This blog, together with all the others, have been exported to Wide Open Spaces.I'm still tweaking and tidying up but the place is open. Let me know what you think. See you there!

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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.[EFL/ESL][podcasting]

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Beewebhead's WebOriginally uploaded by beewebhead.This is the graph for Bee-coming a Webhead and I have made another one for my other blog at Wordpress.It's fun to see the little dots expanding and connecting. Both look like an informal English landscape garden, full of flowers. I wonder what the different colours mean and who the connections behind them are. You can make yours at Websites as

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Josie Fraser (read EdTechUK) is organizing blog.ac.uk , the UK's first educational blogging conference on Friday, June 2nd. Keynote speakers include Barbara Ganley and Stephen Downes.I have invited Josie to share with us her insights and impressions on the event on June 4th 21:00 GMT at our monthly Blogstreams Salon meeting at Tappedin.Join us!bloggingedublogging

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After much grafting and pruning, the Dekita Orchard is now open to the public. There is a variety of trees and fruit from all corners of the planet, as the Orchard aggregates feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange.The Orchard helps find the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties to find posts of their interest and gives them a glimpse into the

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Dekita.org celebrated yesterday its first bloganniversary. Aaron and I played the piano 4 hands for the anniversary post and Rudolf collected and displayed a number of long forgotten screenshots from the early days. This has been a hell of a collaboration :-) Lots of blood, sweat and tears (and fun and love). Happy birthday and it's been great to work with you, guys! You've Made Me So Very Happy

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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 newbies or the faint-hearted.[podcasting][ELT]

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Jeff Lebow launched yesterday the new WiA (Webheads in Action) portal on Drupal. Check out the video-tour prepared for the occasion. I love the possibility to connect with all the other members through its aggregating system and the podcasts to the main conferences stored on the site. Way to go! Thanks Jeff!

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Hot off the press: Web 2.0 Awards!. We have been using some of the sites listed very successfully in education especially in the area of podcasting, photography, bookmarking, collaborative writing, social networking and tagging. Check out the short list!Quick reminder to what Web 2.0 stands for: user generated and/or user influenced content applications that use the Web (versus the desktop) as a

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Got this indication through Isabel Teixeira from Brasilia. Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips.Update: First experience - shot some short sequences of my dogs this Sunday MARCH 19THView this clip on VimeoView this clip on Vimeo[videoblogs]

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Flagr is another easy and cool WEb 2.0 tool for "everyone to share where they go, while on the go". Do it online or through your mobile phone- send in your photos and attach them to your flag.[Web2.0]

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James Farmer has just launched Eslblog.org , a hosting service which provides "blogs for ESL / EFL students wherever they happen to be". I wonder in which way these blogs will be different from the others. Will they have special features language learners can benefit of, like concordancers, dictionaries, spelling correctors, an embedded podcast facility? I suppose that for the time being, it's

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Getting my students acknowledge their sources and making them understand that photographs that they find out there do belong to someone and may be copyright is an uphill battle.I hope no longer! I have just got mail through Vivência Pedagógica, a Brazilian community of educators interested in exchanging ICT experience and resources. Prof Eziquiel Menta points us to the Portuguese version of Get

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Next Sunday March 5th at 21:00 GMT (check WorldClock for your time ) I will be hosting a Blogstreams Salon event at Tappedin. I will be talking about different blogging projects I am participating in with my classes this year and explaining how to connect your learners to other projects and classes through Dekita.org.Two hours before, I am meeting Alyne Piazza to discuss the possibility of

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Bubbleshare allows you to create your personal narrative by letting you upload a photo album and voice captions to go with it. Read how Aaron places it in the EFL/ESL classroom together with iPods and let your imagination wander. Things are becoming easier and easier and there are no technical excuses for not transforming your classroom into a creative studio, and encouraging students to produce

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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 Salon.This year my 39 10th graders will be participating in the project,

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Full house at Tappedin last Sunday. 33 people from all over the world gathered for the Blogstreams Salon live chat with Ewan Mc Intosh. Ewan presented the blogging project with his students on a field trip to France and how fruitful and rewarding the experience was for all parties involved: students, parents, educators and management.He insisted on the pedagogy behind the technology, a pedagogy

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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 arises. To launch the first session of the year on February 5th, I have

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Michael Coghlan is now presenting Hearing Online Voices in EFL/ESL on Yahoo Messenger for the BaW 06 Evo Session. 30 people present, among whom 3 Brazilians (Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel from Brasilia and myself in Sao Paulo). Aiden is explaining how she participated in an audio exchange with Michael and how the students became the main protagonists in the chat. Michael describes how Chris Jones (

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I have been buzzy, preparing and giving a workshop on blogs for the Hornby Summer School in Brazil. I have been experimenting with Wordpress and have created both a Mother blog and a new personal one for the event. I think I will be switching there for the time being.[ESL/EFL][blogging]

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"20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets."It allows you to play for free in different languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German just to mention a

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The asynchronous version of our presentation for the WiAOC can be found in the Dekita Article Section.Aaron Campbell presented the P2P concept, I dived into P2P Pedagogy and Technology in EFL/ESL while Rudolf Ammann explained how Del.icio.us tagging activates the connections in the Dekita Exchange Project.[P2P-EFL/ESL][Social Tools][tagging]

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SuprGlu gathers all your content from Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Typad and social tools like 43 Things and Places...I have just collected all my stuff and organized it under Bee´s Web so I have it all at hand - practical to display a composite picture of all the fragments you have been looking at and interested in lately.Tags:[blogs],[suprglu][social-tools]

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While surfing on the net, trying to find a personality test for my classes I came across this one, which is quite interesting. It gives you 126 questions to answer and the results display a number of nouns and adjectives. Fun exercise in reading.I have answered TRUTHFULLY and here are my results. Do they tally?Stability results were moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure,

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Preparing my presentation for the WiAOC where I will be highlighting how we can use social networking tools like Flickr, 43Places and 43 Things in the EFL/ESL class in the framework of the Dekita P2P Exchange project. From EFL Geek: ESL & EFL in Korea I got the address for this gadget which will surely interest students of mine and make them share their experiences abroad, complementing what

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Incorporated Subversion has just launched Learner Blogs, a free blogging service for K-12 schools. Together with Uniblogs for college and university students and Edublogs for educators, James Farmer (Australia) expands his empire :-)Do not miss Anne Bartlett-Bragg's excellent paper on Blogging to Learn and James post on How to and How not to use blogs.Category: [blogs]

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Interesting post by Lilia Efimova...Although she comments on f2f events and conferences, this made me think of conferences online I participated like Global Learn Day Events and the coming WiAOC convergence and was wondering whether they share the same characteristics.She mentions two extremes in f2f presentations:centralised/authority - "star performers" who can hold attention of big groups with

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Michel Benard invited me through Flickr to join him on the "A Day on Earth" project .His idea: let’s all on the planet, take a photograph on 09/29 and share it with the world on a common blog.I was in class this afternoon...this is what my common day is like in Sao Paulo. We just went to the playground for the pic.Tags: adayonearth,photo,flickr

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The Webheads in Action Online Convergence is a free conference on EFL/ESL and CALL to be held entirely online this November 18-20, 2005. On the panel of invited speakers you will have David Nunan, Curtis Bonk, Dave Sperling, Joy Reid, and Randall Davis. The Web portal for the conference and the mirrors (for those who cannot access Geocities locations) can be accessed online for more details.The

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The 5th Cyberlangues three-day colloquium started this morning in Artigues(Bordeaux) featuring presenters from all over France.Last year, I had the pleasure to give a conference online and introduce participants to blogs and the blogosphere. This year, Gabriella Vernetto from Italy will take educators a step further with her workshop "Les blogs au service de l'écriture collaborative : un projet

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Bernie Dodge's Quest Garden, an online authoring tool, community and hosting service designed to make the creation of high quality WebQuests easier and quicker, will be opened to the world on September 1st. QuestGarden is an apt metaphor for a community garden which will provide all the resources needed for users to plant many trees and flowers (webquests), share and exchange "hybridization

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The Blogstreams Salon welcomes educators interested in blogging and international webpublishing projects. Members get together synchronously in the group room every Sunday at 21:00 GMT to chat informally, sort out doubts, examine and discuss innovative work, cutting-edge tools and international webpublishing projects. Once a month, we invite guests, experts in their fields, to make a presentation

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HB_Bee,originally uploaded by anark. I'd like to publicly thank all the birthday wishes from former students on Orkut, cards and warm words from friends, webheads in action and also share with you one of the most cherished birthday gifts (after Pinky, the iPod) I received this year. A hand-made card from artist and friend Rudolf Ammann.Thank you all. You've made my day :-)

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I have just logged into this blog today and realized that I have not posted anything since June. This is the first time in two years I skip a month here. Not that it matters so much, but for someone who has been blogevangelizing for some time, this is not a good example to set :-) I have been considering other hosting options(Textpattern, Word Press) and have opened an account at Elgg.net.

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Add the track of a song you have created for "the best spoken word samples from some of the greatest books of all times and the finest actors around". The 29 samples include a variety of excerpts like H.G. Well's Time Machine, Hans Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, William Blake's Selected Poetry,Bram Stoker's Dracula and Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland.Check it out at the Penguin Remixed

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Cameron Marlow from the MIT Media Laboratory has launched a general social survey of the greater weblog community to help understand how weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other.The survey is quick (about 15 minutes)and straighforward. Everyone who maintains a weblog is welcome (and encouraged) to take the survey. The larger the sample of individuals they can get, the better

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A special Blogstreams Salon Session (Tappedin ASO*) on Sunday June 19th at 21:00 GMT.This week, Barcelona-based teacher GRAHAM STANLEY will share with us his enthusiasm for podcasting, a new way of delivering audio content to students and other teachers that is growing more and more popular every month. A member of the new TEFL podcasting forum, Graham has just started experimenting with podcasts

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Recovered from Augustine's blog. This is what I do when I am prevented from going to the countryside on weekends :-). I just must get culturally involved in the urban area when not in contact with inspiring natural environments. Yesterday I took a class to see Henry Moore's exhibition (had already visited it twice) and came out as elated as after the first two visits. I also managed to get some

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Bernie Dodge Senac Workshop,originally uploaded by evo05. From 9:30 to 17:00 pm, about 50 teachers from Senac and other schools in Sao Paulo attended the workshop on webquests led by Bernie Dodge.The event also marked the soft launch of a new webquest editing tool that Bernie is developing and which will be released to the general public on June 29th at the NECC conference in Philadelphia.This

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On his fourth visit to Sao Paulo (the first in 1989), Bernie Dodge explained to a room packed with teachers from different schools in Sao Paulo, the concept of the webquest and how it has evolved from the Archeotype structure in 1995 to the matrix he has today. The event counted on a simultaneous interpreter and was video-conferenced to 3 different Senac locations across the state.Professor

Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1116468225047834362005-05-18T23:03:00.000-03:002005-05-19T18:50:08.870-03:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Reunion at Senac, originally uploaded by evo05. Mrs and Mrs Jarbas Barato on the left, Cristiana Assumpçao (Colegio Bandeirantes) in the middle, Mr and Mrs Dodge on the right.

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This evening I met Bernie Dodge face to face at the presentation he was making at Senac, Sao Paulo. Why must I close my eyes when the flash sparks! In spite of closing my eyes, I managed to notice Bernie's blue eyes matched his shirt!Well...here apparently I succeeded in opening them. It's Mrs Dodge's first visit to Brazil. Doesn't she look radiant?

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Every six months, Dan Bassil hosts a conference to gather people interested in tutoring/mentoring and helping kids move from poverty to careers.Have a look at the programme for the next eConference , which starts on May 6, 2005 hosted by Andy Pinçon and the Webheads in Action . Aaron and I will be presenting on bringing Learners, Tutors, and Mentors together through Web-publishing at

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Aaron Campbell, Rudolf Ammann and I have just launched Dekita after a very productive month of heated discussions :-) and intense collaboration. Dekita.org will highlight the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language) students, showcase the classroom Web-publishing projects in EFL /ESL and introduce links relevant to personal Web-publishing in

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Thanks to an anonymous comment tip some posts ago, I found you can start streaming your own video and audio broadcasts right from your PC by downloading Olive Link projector and viewer and link it to your site and/or blog. It is still in Beta version so it is out there for free. Worth a try!

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I have just completed some of those quizzes you get online...Although I am not a native speaker of English, What Kind of American English Do You Speak? suggests the following linguistic profile:55% General American English 30% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern My inner European is French, my taste in music is basically classical rock, my brain is 33,33% female and 66.67% male (!

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Come and join us for the Blogstreams Salon Special Session (Tappedin ASO*) on Sunday May 1st at 21:00 GMT.We have invited Peter Ford, one of the coordinators of the Blog Project at the European Centre of Modern Languages, to tell you how he and his team have been exploring the use of peer-to-peer collaborative online writing environments in the context of foreign language education. The main goal

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In this article, Derek Powazek (Just a Thought) draws the line between blogging and journalism.Category: Weblogs , Blogging

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Ourmedia allows you to store video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media for free on their servers forever, as long as you are willing to share your works with a global audience. According to their mission statement, they are several things in one: - An open-source project built and staffed by volunteers - A destination Web site that freely hosts grassroots video, audio, music,

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From March 30th to April 2nd, Tesol holds its 39th Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Many EFL/ESL webheads will be travelling for the presentations. For this thriving community of practice, used to collaborating synchronously and asynchronously online, meeting face to face is not only an opportunity to get together and celebrate but also take part in a multi-media feast. ElderBob Brannan will be

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As an extension to the Evo05 blogging workshop, every Sunday at 22:00 GMT, Aaron, Graham and I host the Blogstreams Salon at Tappedin, where teachers involved in EFL/ESL blogging come for informal chats. Once a month we hold a special presentation at ASO (After School Online room). Next Sunday, for instance, we have Aaron Campbell on"Blogging toward Learner Autonomy".The presentation is free

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I would like to make public the request for supportI got yesterday from the Centre for English Teacher Training in Budapest, Hungary. An unfair and insensitive cost-cutting campaign is putting at risk the survival of the centre. Highly respected academics with more than 20 years in the field are being sacked without any professional consideration. A paper seems to matter more than quality work

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The weblog project imagined and planned by Robin Good, Marco Montemagno and film producer Massimo Stella will be the first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to support and promote the blogosphere where featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors are the bloggers themselves.The film springs from their passionate belief in "the importance of communicating, both online and offline, the

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Nate posted this quiz on his blog and I decided to have a go. The first time, surprise, surprise:I thought some of it was not very becoming so decided to try it again, changing some of the previous choices (had to let go the red ancient dragon and the blue diamonds among others), and now got:A bit of both I guess and some more ;-)Category: Fun

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Firewalls of the Mind,originally uploaded by bee1. In Lesley's Graham's Peregrinations, I found the tip to Letter James, which allows you to insert a personalized text on a given picture motif. I first heard the expression firewalls of the mind used by Vance Stevens . As I looked at the Berlin Wall photo, I couldn't resist subverting it by scrawling my message on it. Emily Pohl-Weary on graffiti

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I just wish I were more reflective than action oriented. I wish my day contained more hours (though I wonder whether I would use them judiciously...). I wish I could read all the books piling up on my night table, which I long for but can only leaf before my eyes close in exhaustion. I wish I could remember half of what I read ... but you can't always get you want...This is the song that was

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mug Projeto Tamar, originally uploaded by bee1. Sergei Gridushko from Belarus started the mug shots project with his university students and I decided to join him with my 10th graders in Brazil.Last week,

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Bird in Bariloche, which Ale Weser posted to her blog and Aaron's subsequent comment on it, took me to a poem I wrote about 4 years ago... funny how connections are made. Many would like to be that bird perched on top of the tall eucalyptus tree ready to stay or fly away free to go where they see fit with no rules to keep them from it one must be able to break loose to have the choice , the

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The Online Social Networks 2005 Conference has just started. Over 300 people around the world have signed up and I have just logged in as a special guest ;-)Howard Rheingold ( SmartMobs) , Lisa Kimball (Group Jazz, Joi Ito (ICANN) and Brian Reich (Mindshare Interactive Campaigns) are the keynoters. They organized this online conference for anyone interested in working with social networking

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Listening now to Mary Harrsch's presentation at Learning Times. 16 people in the room and Mary is sharing with us her historical sites and photos while she explains how to use different tools like Flickr and how they help her create a community of practice around shared interests. Some sentences and themes that are emerging while I moderate the chat and do some live blogging: " learning from

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Amy Gahran in Contentious blog says..."contrary to popular opinion, the internet is not really about technology. It’s about people, specifically how people communicate. Despite the best efforts of evolution and civilization, human beings still have a lot of rough edges – individually and collectively." Aaron Campbell in Under the Influence of Epoche points out:" blogging we are creating an

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I have just written my first post at Live Journal, which I had opened some time ago but never used. It'll be my personal journal, where I can jot any ideas that come to my head. As this one focuses more on blogging and learning in general, I found it was not the place to post my musings, rants and lores. It'll also serve as a place to experiment with a new tool, what it offers and how it can be

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I am back from an amazing virtual tour to Monkey Mia on Michael Coghlan's blog thanks to the embedded Media Windows Video he created using Photo Story with photographs from his own trip a week before. On February 11th at 22.30 GMT, Michael will be showing Evonline2005 webloggers some of the cutting edge tools you can use/ insert in your blogs. Stayed tuned! Below...an experiment on embedding a

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Yesterday at 22.00 GMT James Farmer 's chat at Alado was blogged live by three different participants who were attending the presentation online. Cleve Miller , Gerry Paille and Graham Stanley covered the event for us and I encourage you to read them and compare the information you get and the style of writing. (To our journalists: please do not edit them) . Aaron has also reported on it after

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About three weeks ago (an eternity in blogging world ...which brings to my mind a flash movie prepared by Penn University on the info cycle), Michael Coghlan, a fellow webhead in Australia, invited Dafne Gonzales (in Venezuela) and me (in Brazil) to contribute to his presentation” Cutting edge tools in the ESL classroom” to be held last Thursday January 20th at 22:30 GMT.. Dafne Gonzalez is an

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2005 starts under the sign of collaboration :-) After two quiet and rainy weeks in the countryside, here I am back to blogging with a revenge! Planning and preparing the design and content of the 6-week weblogging session for Evonline 2005 has been a shot of pure collaborative adrenaline. Since September, when I invited teachers from different continents to co-moderate it with me and whom I

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May happiness, like trade winds, daily wake thee. May laughter, joyously, as breakers, shake thee. May strength, like coco palms storm-bent, sustain thee. The ancient shark of discontent, disdain thee. May tribute, rich as island chief's, be paid thee. Canoes, designed of wisdom's wood, be made thee. And may the star of friendship help thee steer A graceful voyage through the coming year.

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A card from Natalie...painted by her...in my mail today. Thank you! :-) Sharing this nice warm feeling and wishes with all my friends.

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Mother rang me to announce the winners of the 2004 EduBlog Awards (The Eddies) while I was away (without the net) in the countryside during the weekend . She's 76 and although not very keen on computers (my father keeps control over the PC), she got all excited about it. Bee-coming a Webhead had come out on TOP in the Best Use of Blogs within teaching and learning with 40% of the votes (a close

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A report by researcher David Graddol forecasts English as a world language....with 120 million children learning it in Chinese primary schools - and many other countries embedding English-language learning in their scolarity. (BBC) . In France the debate rages whether to start it in primary school. A recent survey evaluating competences of 14-15 year old kids has shown France in neat

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Jean MichelChaupart (Colombia) and Mario Asselin (Canada!) have graciously nominated me for the Edublog Awards , in the Best use of weblogs within teaching and learning category. The polls are hosted on James Farmer's Incsub Association community site, a free-for-teachers hosting support and community in using weblogs, wikis and open source CMSs. Thank you Jean Michel and Mario (not a webhead

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Via Edu_RSS I got to the Blogger's Code of Ethics issued by the Media Centre of the American Press Institute. Be honest and fair, minimize harm and be accountable are the main recommendations. A number of people have thrown in their two cents in the comment area. My question and comment: is this only to be followed when posting in blogs ? It would seem to me these are the basics in all areas

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On August 4th I celebrate my namesday (Barbara) or "imieniny" as we say it in Polish. The day of our patron saint is more important than our birthday and there are important and practical reasons for it. First, these days are usually related to old Polish traditions or seasons of the year. Second, celebrating the namesday does not reveal the age and everybody can easily figure out when your

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Blog: Word of the Year - not only for Merrian Webster publishers but also for me for the past year and a half. It's incredible how involved I got in it: from a simple experiment in class to presentations in French and English , two (believe it or not !!!) nominations in James Farmer's blog contest and a 6 week course next January on Using Blogs in EFL: Uses, New Developments and Challenges.

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Global Learn Day starts on November 21st at 0:00 GMT(tonight at 10:00 pm in Sao Paulo, Brazil) and goes on non-stop for 24-hours. This yearly educational voyage around the 5 continents , initiated by John Hibbs from the Ben Franklin Institute, showcases highly innovative activities in education and internet technology. This year topics will cover:benefits and challenges of international

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The 22nd Tutor Mentor Conference took place in Chicago on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th November in partnership with Digibridge (The Digital Workforce Education ), Tappedin and the WiA (Webheads in Action), an online community of practice I belong to. I had already participated in one of the audio-conferences with Gallistel Language Academy on October 28th, together with three other webheads and

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Lost my template once again...and had not saved it anywhere :-( so had to choose a new look. All the previous comments are on Haloscan...I wonder whether I can recover them and place them on the older posts. Must insert all my blogroll again, feed andall...argh. It is definitely the end of the year and I am at the end of my tether. On the positive side, quand même, this will force me to

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After photoblogs,moblogs and videoblogs, podcasting is the most recent development to reach the educational blogosphere. D'Arcy Norman from The Learning Commons imagines a scenario where "students ... subscribe to an RSS feed, and have recordings of every lecture automatically stored on their hard drive or iPod or whatnot for review" or "interviews with external resources". David Jennings (

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I am running late with my blogging. The previous message had been sitting in my draft for at least a month (had to correct the date)and this one is already past the event. Reporting quand même. Last week, Sergei Gridyushko (CALL) and Maya Bogova (TEFL Park Coordinator)from the Belarusian National Association of Teachers of English hosted the 3-day (NOvember 3rd to 5th) 6th International

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Electronic Village Online (Evonline) is a professional development project and virtual extension of the 2005 TESOL Convention. Together with three other hard-core bloggers, Aaron P. Campbell, Sean Smith (a.k.a Blinger) and Graham Stanley, I will be moderating a six-week blogging session (on Yahoo Groups and Moodle from January 17th to February 27th. Participants REGISTER for ElectronicVillage

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I have just come across the ESP Game while checking the Learning Post RSS feed. This is a beta project is owned by Carnegie Mellon University and funded partly by the National Science Foundation. The ESP Game is a two-player game. Each time you play you are randomly paired with another player whose identity you don't know. You can't communicate with your partner, and the only thing you have

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How to Video with Blogger is a tutorial by Svein Høier and Jon Hoem from the Arts and Media Dept., Norwegian University of Science and Technology. According to them, it is not difficult to do it. You just need some knowledge of HTML and an "interest in posting short videos regularly". The tutorial requires you invest on Quick Time PRO. Real, WMP, MPEG-4 and perhaps SMIL are also envisaged in

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I have been so busy preparing material for presentations, talking about blogging and collaborating on a course about blogging that have hardly had time to do any blogging myself ...lol There is so much happening around, so much information to digest that this is how I have been feeling lately ... in a whirlwind, in the eye of a tornado, twisting and twirling, frustrated for not being able to stay

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Australian James Farmer's online learning weblog Incorporated Subversion has moved to a new address. James has also decided to launch incsub. Through this new site he will provide hosting, consultation and support for educators interested in using technologies like blogs and wikis. Wonderful interface and clean design. Thank you James and spreading the word :-)

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I have some presentations to make with people from different parts of the world and was trying to find a light, easy, no frills free environment to get together, brainstorm and outline a project. I discovered Webcollaborator , which has just been launched, and I feel that until now it has satisfied my needs. It is a mixture of blog and wiki (which can be public or restricted) and allows you to

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Vance Stevens is leading a TESOL Certificate Program course: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments from September 13 until October 10. It's an online course providing experiential training in the technological skills required to develop effective strategies for utilizing video, web cam, image, and voice technologies in communities of practice as enhancements to collaborative

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This is the title of the workshop given my Michael Coghlan for Clesol2004, taking place in Christchurch, New Zealand from September24th- 27th. More than 10 webheads from different parts of the world (Brazil, Colombia, Taiwan, Kuwait, USA, Japan) were online to greet and interact with the participants or left their messages in the various environments visited: Wimba Voice, Yahoo Messenger (voice

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This wonderful drawing called "My Spirit Helpers" was done by Reg Davidson (Haida). Although it is online, I had saved it in my image folder as I am very much attracted to this art. I have just posted it using BloggerBot, a tool by Hello, which allows you to store images online. It automatically sends and posts the images from your folders onto Blogger for free. Worth trying!

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Aaron Patric Campbell ( The New Tanuki) has just published a short paper on the use of Live Journal in his EFL classes in the Internet TESL Journal for Teachers of English. "This paper describes a way for teachers to set-up and facilitate authentic international communication in the EFL classroom using LiveJournal.com: a free, hosted weblog tool with a 1.9 million-member-strong community of

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Retrieved from a posting on CETEFL List ... a world- wide transatlantic poetic happening ... but only available to those with an Internet 2 connection or who are living in Paris and London, unfortunately :-( Thursday 14 October 2004 2:00 pm EDT (additional times listed below) In this history-making transatlantic poetic happening, celebrating Allen Ginsberg and his epic poem HOWL, poets will

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Set my alarm clock to the wee hours of the morning (2:30 am here) to hear Michael Coghlan's (a.k.a The Voice) directly from Noah's on the Beach in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. This audio-conference , recorded on Learning Times (http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=530396) , was part of the 3rd Australian Learning Communities Conference: Be Shaken - Learning for Change. Michael introduced

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From 8th to 11th September, Geneva hosted the international conference on education organized by Unesco. Theme: "Quality education for all young people: Challenges, trends and priorities". The official site has full reports on educational systems of about a hundred countries, in French and Spanish as well.

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Listen to Robin's Good (Masternewmedia and Kolabora) Sychronous Collaboration Tools for the Academic World , a 30-minute voice presentation of 45 slides using Macromedia Breeze. Clear and informative as usual, a must hear for people interested in using new, easy-to use and cost-effective breed of tools for classes, presentations and training. Also by Robin Good, the Official Guide ToWeb

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In Simon's World, through Blinger's Linguistic and ESL Blog: Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask Fun reading and most informative. Another article you might enjoy in Natalie d' Arbeloff's: Addicted to Blogging? from her excellent cartoon-blog BLAUGUSTINE and with so many posts on one single day, I temporarily retire :-)

Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1093951593814662402004-08-31T08:16:00.000-03:002004-08-31T08:26:33.813-03:00

Surfing yesterday on the subject of blogs, I came across this very interesting paper by Martin Roell " Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing , presented to BlogTalk 2.0, "The European Conference on Weblogs", Vienna, July 5th and 6th 2004. It "explores the failure of traditional knowledge management

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Last Wednesday August 25th, I had the audio workshop on blogs for Cyberlangues on Alado (details posted in the previous message). Together with me in the computer room at the Lycée Pasteur in Sao Paulo, nine teachers and two students of mine, who came to give their testimonials on how they view blogging in the classroom. Online, about 20 teachers in Orléans and Webheads from a bit all over the

Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1092516842468951052004-08-14T17:13:00.000-03:002004-08-16T23:24:03.226-03:00

Cyberlangues is a French association of foreign language teachers who use CALL and new technologies in their classrooms. Every year since 2000, teachers have been getting together f2f for three days in summer to share their practice and experience. This year, the colloquium will take place on 24th, 25th and 26th August in Orléans and will be coordinated by Alain Krizic, EFL teacher at the Lycée

Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1092062803429214142004-08-09T11:31:00.000-03:002004-08-09T11:54:01.980-03:00

Almost a month without posting! Shame on you, Bee! Well...I have been busy as you can see, dearest readers. From July 20th to 30th, I was away from the computer, travelling with 5 students of mine visiting Rio and travelling along the coast to Sao Paulo with a stopover in Parati (lovely little colonial town). We were hosting a group of Italian correspondents from Naples as a result of a

Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-1090162242897907402004-07-18T11:39:00.000-03:002004-07-18T11:50:42.896-03:00

Blogger has changed its working interface... It is now much more user-friendly for newbies as it offers the possibility of changing the font and size, adding colours, bullets, blockquotes without them having to tamper with the html code.   Claude however signals there although it works well on Mozilla and IE there are still some bugs and  she has not been able to access it from her Mac ibook :-(

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Do you believe in coincidence or telepathy? I usually don't, but I do stop short in my tracks, startled when this accidental synchronic sequence of events happens. Last night, I was surfing on the web, jumping from one blogroll to another, when I got to Seb's Open Research Blog and found: " In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves

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