Entries from January 2008

January 31, 2008

SMiELT participants needed in Flickr project

Please look at the pic below and speculate using modal verbs:

1. Is the girl alone?
2. Who do you think is she talking to?
3. Could she be talking to a flower / person /an animal?
4. Are there more kids / adults/ flowers / animals around?
Please leave your answers / speculations on the comment box from [...]

January 31, 2008

Exploiting Flickr in ELT and Del.icio.us in my SMiELT network

How can Flickr be used in the ELT context?
My brand new Del.icio.us tags show some of the links about that -I found them yesterday and I’d like to share them with you. – Mind you- I learnt quite sth about del.icio.us at trying its various features, I used to “save bookmarks” on it before [...]

January 29, 2008

“You are what you….do in your Network”

Based on the idea that we are nobody if we don’t belong to a community, something which is implied directly by Social Media, some experienced bloggers have already affirmed that your contexts are relevant in your work. If you are part of a Network you must show it. Visualization of your context is [...]

January 27, 2008

Social Media in ELT reminds me of Don Quixote and his windmills

Under the post “Can we change education?”on her blog, Nancy A. McKeand wrote this :
Computers don’t and won’t automatically change education. It will take teachers who are able to open up the world to their students through using them to make a real difference.
So one of the questions that came up to my mind [...]

January 24, 2008

Social Networks starting point- Blog Comments

Blog comments are the key for interacting, therefore NETWORKING.
There are good reasons for supporting guest participation within blogs as the link on strategic commenting provided by the SMiELT program presented. However my personal feeling in favour of leaving comments on blog posts have to do with all the learning that takes place while interacting. On [...]

January 23, 2008

Are students ready for Social Media tools?

It seems as if they were…
Sometimes teachers feel that dealing with online tools will be a piece of cake as students are believed to hold a great command of internet resources. They are generally thought to have been “born” wish certain techno skills that , as a matter of fact, they do not own.

“The [...]

January 22, 2008

EL Teachers in danger of extinction?

Yesterday I found a real bit of food for thought on the SMIELT blog -
quite shocking
I was so interested in organizing ideas about it that I got a summary to be posted on one of the microblogs that I run. I generally do that when I want to (think in a loud voice???) reflect [...]

January 21, 2008

Hello there

This is my first post from this blog , trying to  interact within the  SMinELT program.
Such a challenge!