Peter Ford on the ECML Blogging Project

Peter Ford, one of the team leaders of the Blog Project at the European
Centre of Modern Languages, will be a featured guest at the Blogstreams
Salon Special Session at TappedIn ASO
on Sunday, May 1st at 21:00
GMT.   Peter will share with us how he and his team have been
developing a blogging tool specifically for use in language [...]

Empathy and Compassion in the Classroom

I mentioned earlier
that compassion is a necessary condition in the teacher/student
relationship for a movement toward learner autonomy to be possible, not
to mention a healthy communicative learning environment.  I then
stated that ‘creative visualization’ practices could be helpful in
bringing about compassion, something that Matt just asked me to explain. 
There are two types of visualizations I practice [...]