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Here is Robert Patterson on Going Home:
I believe that Social Software is a vector to a return to an old culture.
When I say old culture, I mean the culture that fits the essential nature of humans and that fits nature itself. I imagine a return to the custom of being personally authentic, to a definition [...]

In response to one of Will’s latest posts, Marc ponders the need for autonomous approaches to language learning:
The main reason I’m coming to this point of view is that most of our students have low motivation to learn English. They’ve studied English for 6 years prior to entering university, but they haven’t learned it: they [...]

Aaron and Aili in Ohara’s Sanzenin, north of Kyoto.
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All the talk this week at our Weblogging in ESL/EFL group on adding sound and photos to blogs got me thinking about how I could go about incorporating these applications into my work with personal webpublishing in Japanese EFL classes. If students are already blogging, or at least reading and writing on blogs (not [...]

Friday’s talk with Michael Coghlan at Learning Times on the use of sound and photos in blogging has certainly stimulated my noggin’ again.
After calling for a paradigm shift in our pedagogical orientation away from the ‘drone on the throne’ model of classroom communication toward a learner-centered model, Michael talked about exploiting the Wow! [...]

Go to Personal Webpublishing at EAC
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Mary Harrsch paid us a visit at Learning Times on Wednesday evening to share her knowledge and use of RSS.   For me, a few of the highlights were:

The way Mary uses the ‘blog this’ extension feature for Firefox
to comment on whatever she happens to be reading in the browser. 
I haven’t used this before, but it [...]

I’m taking part right now in Will’s real time audio/visual presentation at Learning Times entitled, What is RSS? He’s now telling us everything we need to know about RSS and how we can use it to enhance our learning/teaching experiences on the read/write web. He’s also showing us numerous examples of how to [...]