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As part of the Braz-TESOL 10th National Convention in Brasilia, Barbara Dieu will be giving a presentation entitled, Networking on the Net, in which she, along with a handful of virtual participants, will be introducing Web-based learning tools that foster interaction and collaboration. She will also introduce the concepts of Personal Learning Landscapes and [...]

Last week I flew down to Singapore to give a talk on P2P eLearning at the iX 2006 Conference. Unfortunately, I missed most of the other speakers as my time was limited due to other work commitments, but from what I experienced, it was a well organized and highly attended event. It was also held [...]

Community has been on my mind a lot recently, especially concerning the little EFL/ESL niche in the great big blogosphere we’ve all helped to construct. As Marco reminds us, blogging is a social process, not a technology, so therefore the higher the quality of our conversations in these open, dispersed spaces, the stronger our sense [...]

After an almost four month break, Mark and I have fired up English Conversations again with a few podcasts on Africa. Our hope is that learners of English as a second or foreign language will listen to the recordings of the conversations and use the transcriptions (with links) to learn new expressions, vocab, patterns [...]

I’m headed to the LIU Brooklyn campus next week to give a presentation to Friends World faculty and administration on building electronic learning portfolios using Elgg. I’ll also be running a podcasting workshop and taking part in discussions with administration and faculty on how to best integrate personal learning landscapes into the curriculum.
As Friends World [...]

Upon reading George Siemens latest post, I began wondering why more organizations don’t make greater efforts to promote informal learning amongst their members.  Learners bring with them a whole wealth of previous knowledge and experience. In all educational settings, we miss out on the collective wisdom that arises through conversation, sharing, and discussion when we [...]

e-poche.net as webgraph
Originally uploaded by apc33.
Webgraphs provides a way to view your website as a graph. Aren’t the results beautiful?
Link via Buthania via Stephen Downes

I posted some links to people and resources mentioned in my presentation on Saturday at JALT CALL 2006 in Sapporo. Here are the presentation files (6.9 MB) in pdf form (I couldn’t upload the keynote file for some reason). Thanks to all who participated.
By the way, I thought that the conference was well [...]

The Dekita Orchard makes its debut today on Dekita.org. It’s purpose is to aggregate and display syndicated content from EFL/ESL learners participating in the live Web as part of their coursework. Take a guided tour to learn more.
We hope that the Orchard will make it easier for educators and other learners to follow [...]

EFL Geek recently started a wiki called ESL and EFL wiki. Other than Tom’s Famous Personages Project, the wiki for the EVO 2005 course on Blogs in EFL/ESL, and a Webheads wiki, I wonder what other wikis in the field of English Langauge Teaching exist? Because it has been a year since [...]

Hosted by educator Barbara Dieu of Brazil, Blogstreams Salon is a monthly informal chat on topics related to blogging, podcasting, vodcasting, social networking tools, education, etc. On June 4th, the guest is Josie Fraser, a U.K. based educational technologist, who will be discussing blog.ac.uk, the first U.K. educational blogging conference that she is co-organizing. Since [...]

Daniel Mangrum, an English teacher in the U.A.E., has been working hard to get a blog carnival going on the theme of English language teaching, called The Carnival of English Language Teaching (CELT). The idea is that each month, a different person interested in the theme will host the carnival on his or her weblog. [...]