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We had jam session yesterday at TappedIn with Dana, Stella, and Jason. Graham has posted a very helpful summary what was discussed. I found it helpful to ‘hear’ what other educators using blogs in their classrooms had to say about their practice. I also felt that being together in one [...]

Susan Marandi brings up an excellent question concerning classroom learning environments:
In most of these talks, discussions, and conferences, I’ve received the impression that “teaching” is nowadays a no-no, and that classes should be run differently so as to encourage student empowerment, decision-making, etc. Of course, all our textbooks say the same, so it’s no surprise [...]

The EVO Weblogging in ESL/EFL chat with James Farmer this morning at Alado on communication dynamics in OLEs was very stimulating. Graham, Cleve, and Tuchodi provide us with live summaries.
One of the main themes running through James’ presentation today was
that the type of online learning environments that we create and
implement in the classroom will affect [...]

I like the phrase, I Blog Therefore I Am, not because I agree with it’s meaning - for it is quite ridiculous to assert that the act of blogging determines being - but rather because it raises ontological questions concerning individual actions and their relation to the creation of self. Alternatives might be I [...]

Cleve Miller makes a keen obervation in response to James’ recent post on the future of online learning environments:
The problem is that the concept of management is one of the all-time great things we humans have come up with. I know that in the post the word “management” is referred to in the context of [...]

Bettina asks some very good questions:
Are blogs for everybody? If keeping students motivated is hard, what about motivating teachers to use this tool? Teacher training is evolving, new technologies are being introduced in students curricula, but some other social and “traditional” matters still remain unchangable. How do we encourage student teachers to embrace [...]

Twenty five participants from our EVOnline Course in the Use of Weblogs in ESL/EFL are now chatting with Anne Davis at TappedIn. At the moment, she’s speaking about ‘What is a Weblog?’ And of course, she advocates putting weblogs in the hands of students, giving them a voice and a sense of [...]

Anne just informed us of Free ESL Blogs.com, where ESL students and teachers can sign up for free blogs. They also offer an RSS feed for ELT headlines.
It’s great to see someone offering this service; yet another addition to the growing community of ESL/EFL bloggers. After poking around the site a [...]

Albert Delgado of Educational Weblogs points us to the latest version of Skype (0.14.0.4) for the Mac, which allows users to make conference calls - something for which I’ve been yearning ever since I started using the software.
Now if only the developers at Skype would add the capability for users to ‘push pages’ [...]

I was pulling my hair out trying to record Skype calls on a Mac when in came Steve Dembo to the rescue. His method is very simple to understand, easy to implement, and totally free. What could be better? Check out his Ed Tech blog: teach four two. Thanks Steve!

I often chant the mantra of ‘pedagogy before technology’ when speaking
to other teachers about what software to choose for use in their
classes. I see technological applications as tools for communication
and learning. How we choose to use those tools depends on our purpose
and overall approach. If we want to build a house, we generally start
with a [...]

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