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One of the mailing lists to which I used to subscribe, Papyrus News, migrated to blog format last month. This makes it more interactive and is something, in my opinion, that owners of other academic mailing lists ought to consider doing. The Papyrus News blog is being run by Mark Warschauer.
Professor Steve McCarty, [...]

The Global Learn Day event last Sunday was made possible through Talking Communities, an application designed to facilitate web conferencing through a combination of voice and text based chat. While there were a few minor technical glitches with a few of the Asia-based participants, it worked quite well. I was especially impressed with [...]

Global Learn Day takes place on Sunday, November 21st, and consists of a round the world “voyage” showcasing innovative activities in education and internet technology. There will be presentations and roundtable discussions by educators and thinkers from all parts of the globe. Check it out.

Teresa Almeida d’Eça has put together a very helpful set of links to articles and resources related to Online Learning Environments and Virtual Learning Environments, including many related to language learning.
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As part of his coursework this semester, one of our students at the East Asia Center, John Grillo, is organizing an intercultural artistic experience, called Sketch Crawl Kyoto, in which artists of varying nationalities roam the city of Kyoto making sketches of what impresses them, and then gather at the end of the day to [...]

There is already a teacher here in Japan who has started using Flickr with his EFL students. Visit Rudolf Ammann’s blog Tawawa for a description of his Flickr project. Also, have a look at his student’s photos and leave some comments.
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Our EFL bloggers here in Japan are now taking part in a weblog-based cultural/linguistic exchange with students of Japanese at K.U. Lueven in Belguim. Thanks to Hans Coppens,
who masterminded the project, our EFL students’ Livejournal postings
are aggregated and displayed along side the work of the Leuven
students. Reading and commenting on each others’ ideas is [...]

I’ve been tossing around a few ideas for next year’s EFL classes:
A Weekly Podcast: I just listened to Dave Winer’s Nov. 1st podcast this morning as he rambled on about this and that and I realized that it would valuable to produce a short 10-15 min weekly broadcast designed specifically for my students; one in [...]