A new communication WAVE

My first experience using Google Wave

Places and Perspectives Learning Circle

This second half of the year we will start working with Collaborative Projects. Take a look at IEARN a non-profit organization that fosters the use of new technologies in the classroom.
What is a Learning Circle?
It is team of 6-8 teachers and their classes joined in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. The groups remains [...]

Glogster

Blog Action Day

Don´t miss Blog Action Day on October 15.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be [...]

Creating blogs

Last month I was hired by a school to start creating a new online communication  channel between the parents and the school.
Together with the kindergarten Head and one of the owners we started brainstorming how could Parents communication be improved by using technology.
We reached the conclusion that having individual blogs for kindergarten would generate [...]

Social Networking Conference 2009

Dear friends,

We are delighted to inform you that from November 5-8, 2009, we will be running the Social Networking 2009 Conference. This open-knowledge event will be completely online and free and it is aimed at elluminating ELT practitioners to grow in the use of social networks as learning development tools.
This event is being jointly [...]

Schools around the world

If you would like to heighten your students’ cultural awareness, consider getting involved with Classroom without walls.
This Internet -based collaborative project will allow your students to learn and share information about different cultures.
Let´s open our classroom walls to the world!!!!
Take a look at our brand new project: Schools around the world.

We will start a new [...]

Creating Online material

This year in February I moderated week 5 of Becoming a Webhead 2009. As a natural researcher I had to investigate these tools and their educational potential. Below you will find a list of the different tools that can make our teaching excel and our imagination grow. Be ready  to create quizzes, online sheets, interactive [...]

II Jornadas Internacionales de Tecnologías aplicadas a la enseñanza de Lenguas

I would like to thank the conference organizers for inviting me as a Guest Speaker to the II Jornadas Internacionales de Tecnologías aplicadas a la enseñanza de Lenguas.
I owe a special thank you to Jeff William and Liliana Anglada who have been in every detail. Together with Jeff we prepared a presentation on Social Networking [...]

Article in JALT magazine on ARCALL

Some months ago a vibrant webhead Mary Hills interviewed our experience in World Call Japan. The interview was published in The Language Teacher. Below you will be able to read a copy.