Comments/ Links/Ideas on Blogging and Learning Onlinenoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:52:49 -0300Blogger http://www.blogger.com143125http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/06/wide-open-spaces.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:35:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-115023484456004292Please update your feeds! This blog, together with all the others, have been exported to Wide Open Spaces.I'm still tweaking and tidying up but the place is open. Let me know what you think. See you there!3http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/06/english-conversations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:52:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114994465464752637English conversations (Practical Conversations for Language Learners) is a series of podcasts for EFL/ESL learners produced by Aaron Campbell and Mark White. Check out their stories on Africa, Thai and Japanese culture and themes like skin colour and feminism.[EFL/ESL][podcasting]0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/06/beewebheads-webgraph.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:23:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114973001506481930Beewebhead's WebOriginally uploaded by beewebhead.This is the graph for Bee-coming a Webhead and I have made another one for my other blog at Wordpress.It's fun to see the little dots expanding and connecting. Both look like an informal English landscape garden, full of flowers. I wonder what the different colours mean and who the connections behind them are. You can make yours at Websites as 0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/05/josie-fraser-at-blogstreams.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 30 May 2006 16:35:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114901965166038234Josie Fraser (read EdTechUK) is organizing blog.ac.uk , the UK's first educational blogging conference on Friday, June 2nd. Keynote speakers include Barbara Ganley and Stephen Downes.I have invited Josie to share with us her insights and impressions on the event on June 4th 21:00 GMT at our monthly Blogstreams Salon meeting at Tappedin.Join us!bloggingedublogging2http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/05/dekita-orchard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 30 May 2006 07:12:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114898475765302776After much grafting and pruning, the Dekita Orchard is now open to the public. There is a variety of trees and fruit from all corners of the planet, as the Orchard aggregates feeds from EFL/ESL courses worldwide that participate in the Dekita Exchange.The Orchard helps find the EFL/ESL community and other interested parties to find posts of their interest and gives them a glimpse into the 0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/05/dekita-bloganniversary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Mon, 1 May 2006 14:53:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114650810453797530Dekita.org celebrated yesterday its first bloganniversary. Aaron and I played the piano 4 hands for the anniversary post and Rudolf collected and displayed a number of long forgotten screenshots from the early days. This has been a hell of a collaboration :-) Lots of blood, sweat and tears (and fun and love). Happy birthday and it's been great to work with you, guys! You've Made Me So Very Happy0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/04/educational-podcasting-for-teaching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:25:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114531010912759234Through Eric Baber, a link to a comprehensive directory with over 2500 podcast channels for teaching and learning made in the UK, with tips for educators, video-channels and a weblog.Eric has also just opened an ExtremeTechnoELT community on Moodle housing a number of different discussion fora for advanced of IT in ELT. Not for newbies or the faint-hearted.[podcasting][ELT]3http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/04/wia-new-portal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:08:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114406664682628594Jeff Lebow launched yesterday the new WiA (Webheads in Action) portal on Drupal. Check out the video-tour prepared for the occasion. I love the possibility to connect with all the other members through its aggregating system and the podcasts to the main conferences stored on the site. Way to go! Thanks Jeff!0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/web-20-awards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:33:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114362932644601026Hot off the press: Web 2.0 Awards!. We have been using some of the sites listed very successfully in education especially in the area of podcasting, photography, bookmarking, collaborative writing, social networking and tagging. Check out the short list!Quick reminder to what Web 2.0 stands for: user generated and/or user influenced content applications that use the Web (versus the desktop) as a2http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/vimeo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:32:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114221033318664797Got this indication through Isabel Teixeira from Brasilia. Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips.Update: First experience - shot some short sequences of my dogs this Sunday MARCH 19THView this clip on VimeoView this clip on Vimeo[videoblogs]4http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/flagr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:54:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114176995843235979Flagr is another easy and cool WEb 2.0 tool for "everyone to share where they go, while on the go". Do it online or through your mobile phone- send in your photos and attach them to your flag.[Web2.0]0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/eslblogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:19:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114134983226775409James Farmer has just launched Eslblog.org , a hosting service which provides "blogs for ESL / EFL students wherever they happen to be". I wonder in which way these blogs will be different from the others. Will they have special features language learners can benefit of, like concordancers, dictionaries, spelling correctors, an embedded podcast facility? I suppose that for the time being, it's 1http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/get-creative.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:57:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114130431998382360Getting my students acknowledge their sources and making them understand that photographs that they find out there do belong to someone and may be copyright is an uphill battle.I hope no longer! I have just got mail through Vivência Pedagógica, a Brazilian community of educators interested in exchanging ICT experience and resources. Prof Eziquiel Menta points us to the Portuguese version of Get 0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/03/projects-and-plans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:49:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114126945335555776Next Sunday March 5th at 21:00 GMT (check WorldClock for your time ) I will be hosting a Blogstreams Salon event at Tappedin. I will be talking about different blogging projects I am participating in with my classes this year and explaining how to connect your learners to other projects and classes through Dekita.org.Two hours before, I am meeting Alyne Piazza to discuss the possibility of 0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/02/bubbleshare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:08:00 -0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-114047768287617539Bubbleshare allows you to create your personal narrative by letting you upload a photo album and voice captions to go with it. Read how Aaron places it in the EFL/ESL classroom together with iPods and let your imagination wander. Things are becoming easier and easier and there are no technical excuses for not transforming your classroom into a creative studio, and encouraging students to produce 4http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/02/ecml-blogging-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:11:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113992090146107472Mario Camilieri and Peter Ford had already invited me last year to join the ECML Blogging Project as a guest to comment on several students' and teachers' blogs. I also opened my own blog: Bee-Blogging from the Tropics there.Aaron Campbell posted about it onDekita after Peter outlined the project for us at the Blogstreams Salon.This year my 39 10th graders will be participating in the project, 0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/02/full-house.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:16:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113934598426429598Full house at Tappedin last Sunday. 33 people from all over the world gathered for the Blogstreams Salon live chat with Ewan Mc Intosh. Ewan presented the blogging project with his students on a field trip to France and how fruitful and rewarding the experience was for all parties involved: students, parents, educators and management.He insisted on the pedagogy behind the technology, a pedagogy 6http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/02/blogstreams-salon-2006.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:51:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113890852175227612This year the Blogstreams Salon meetings will be held only once a month, on every first Sunday of the month at 21:00 GMT.For these occasions we will bring special guests to share with you the projects they are working on or just chat about blogging/podcasting/videocasting in general. Extra sessions may happen if the need arises. To launch the first session of the year on February 5th, I have 1http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/01/michael-coghlans-presentation-on-ym.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:09:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113819456166169179Michael Coghlan is now presenting Hearing Online Voices in EFL/ESL on Yahoo Messenger for the BaW 06 Evo Session. 30 people present, among whom 3 Brazilians (Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel from Brasilia and myself in Sao Paulo). Aiden is explaining how she participated in an audio exchange with Michael and how the students became the main protagonists in the chat. Michael describes how Chris Jones (1http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-year-new-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:06:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113715454159666987I have been buzzy, preparing and giving a workshop on blogs for the Hornby Summer School in Brazil. I have been experimenting with Wordpress and have created both a Mother blog and a new personal one for the event. I think I will be switching there for the time being.[ESL/EFL][blogging]0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2005/11/20-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:42:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113291220690024080"20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets."It allows you to play for free in different languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German just to mention a 2http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2005/11/p2p-in-eflesl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:25:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113291079203685111The asynchronous version of our presentation for the WiAOC can be found in the Dekita Article Section.Aaron Campbell presented the P2P concept, I dived into P2P Pedagogy and Technology in EFL/ESL while Rudolf Ammann explained how Del.icio.us tagging activates the connections in the Dekita Exchange Project.[P2P-EFL/ESL][Social Tools][tagging]0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2005/11/gluing-all-bits-and-pieces.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:42:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113172060120960859SuprGlu gathers all your content from Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Typad and social tools like 43 Things and Places...I have just collected all my stuff and organized it under Bee´s Web so I have it all at hand - practical to display a composite picture of all the fragments you have been looking at and interested in lately.Tags:[blogs],[suprglu][social-tools]0http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2005/11/are-you-similar-mind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:38:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113156666463347326While surfing on the net, trying to find a personality test for my classes I came across this one, which is quite interesting. It gives you 126 questions to answer and the results display a number of nouns and adjectives. Fun exercise in reading.I have answered TRUTHFULLY and here are my results. Do they tally?Stability results were moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, 1http://beewebhead.blogspot.com/2005/11/travelling-through-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bee)Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:32:00 -0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355089.post-113146912401957952Preparing my presentation for the WiAOC where I will be highlighting how we can use social networking tools like Flickr, 43Places and 43 Things in the EFL/ESL class in the framework of the Dekita P2P Exchange project. From EFL Geek: ESL & EFL in Korea I got the address for this gadget which will surely interest students of mine and make them share their experiences abroad, complementing what 0