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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008 edited
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    I'm Barbara Dieu or Bee as people call me online. I am presently on a sabbatical from the Franco-Brazilian secondary school, where since 1983 I have been teaching English to middle/high school teens preparing for the French baccalauréat.  Before that I worked at the Cultura Inglesa, a language institute in São Paulo, as an advanced level assistant coordinator, teacher and oral examiner for FCE and CPE (Cambridge Certificate and Proficiency Exams).

    I have been online since 1997,  involved in collaborative projects with my classes and more recently, organizing professional development workshops/courses for teachers using open and social media tools and platforms. I am a member of a number of national and international communities of practice, coordinate the EduTech SIG for BrazTesol and co-run Dekita.org, whose aim is to showcase, highlight, discuss and promote open and participatory uses of the Web in ELT.

    I'd like to welcome you to one such moment in the Dekita kitchen and hope you will enjoy preparing and sharing the meal :-)

     

    • CommentAuthordoris3m
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2008
     # 2

    Hi, there! My name's Doris molero and I am an EFL professor at Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin in Venezuela. I teach at undergraduate level to students from different schools. I hold a master degree on educational informatics and I'm in my third semester at doctorate level. My research interest is on multiliteracies and web 2.0 tools as change agents in the EFL Class at the university. I have been on Line since 2003. At that time I have the luck to find the webheads and join them in their adventures all around the virtual world. Now, I am a blogger and my students are blogging, too. Our class blog is Doris3m EFL Center, there you can see some of my work and as well as my students' work, too. I also have a blog in Spanish for my doctorate classes.. Blogeando en Ciencias de La Educacion. Last year I met Nelly Deutch, a great friend who invited us to her Ning social network... International Collaboration where we have participated and have created a group ... URBE is here.... Last but not least, we are also participatig in the Writingmatrix project with Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Rita and Sasha. This project is about blogging, tagging and aggregating.

    Well, I hope I can learn and share a lot to keep on shining!

    A hug from Maracaibo to you all and to my good friend Bee! We need more bees in the world...

    • CommentAuthorlucychili
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
     # 3

    Hullo team
    My name is Janet Hawtin. I often use the name lucychili online.
    I am a designer working on web and print materials for education in Australia.
    I am interested in the ways that society is changing regarding collaboration and sharing ideas.
    I have a blog at http://eduspaces.net/janeth/weblog/

    There have been some interesting perspectives about changes in education including from

    Gardner Campbell captures some key points which are causing contention.
    http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=618

    Michael Wesch's world Sim is inspiring
    http://mediatedcultures.net/worldsim.htm

    • CommentAuthorlucychili
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
     # 4

    Hi Doris

    Yes we need more amazing Bees in the world =)

    Bolivar is an interesting person to learn about.
    It is interesting to find out about people who have made much change
    because our world feels like it needs a lot of change at the moment.
    Is there much information in English about his teacher Don Simon Rodriguez?

    Cheers

    Janet

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2008 edited
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    Welcome, Doris and Janet. Interesting to learn about the projects you are into and thanks for the links. Make yourselves comfortable by exploring this environment, throwing your two cents in the other discussions or opening new ones :-)

    • CommentAuthorvcautin
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2008
     # 6

    Hi All

    Violeta Cautin from Chile here. I'm and EFL teacher since 2001.

    I'm 29 years old. I'm a single mother and a socialist.

    My projects this year are all related to applying for scholarships to enter grad school so I'm really busy trying to learn math for the GRE :(  I do not have any formal course in technology or computing but I been learning from all of you.  I wish I had more time to accomplish more tasks during the day, but I decided that this year I was going to concentrate on my couses and preparing for the tests.

    This course seems promising :) I'm looking forward to it!

     

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2008 edited
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    Hello Violeta,

    Nice to have you here!

    I have no formal course in tech or computing either and have learnt all I know today basically by  surfing the web, experimenting and tinkering both on my own and with friends and tutors, to whom I am immensely grateful for their dedication, availability and most of all - patience.

    I'm almost 55 - a Leo... birthday next Sunday :-) and although I have been involved in ELT for some 35 years now (I know, I do sound like a dinossaur) I had not heard of GRE, which would be an interesting solution for me - but like for you, Math would be a challenge. Recognition of prior learning and accreditation of relevant life experience and skills is a must- but should not become an industry. I am going to move this thread to a specific forum so we can continue there.

    • CommentAuthorRenard
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2008 edited
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    Hello guys,

    My name's Gutemberg Raposo and I'm a college student at UFT in Porto Nacional and English teacher at CNA here in PAlmas-TO. Oh boy! I'm really glad to be writting these lines right now.
    Well, I'm in the beginning of my carrer as an English teacher comparing to you even because I'm so young, but I love technology and I also love teaching just like learning and I have to say I have so much courage to be here right now writing to you, because we have so many Teachers here, but I never saw any of them talking about this online world. I mean they know how to use a computer and stuff, but projects, conferences, lectures, online? Forget it! I just know one thing. As I have never had opportunity I'm giving the opportunity to me and that's the way things work to me.
    So, last semester I started working with blogs. Now I have some of them. As I'm into a researching project I decided to put it on online ( www.krahoproject.blogspot.com) and last semester we introduced some people to the internet and developed some online skills with the monitorship in the subject of pragmatics, so as a monitor I taught the students how subscribe since e-mail accounts til blogs and we finished with google reader, because I tought of doing something collaborative, then they had to create theid blogs and comment the topics posted by each mate on their blogs. P.S. Topics which were discussed in class by the professor. Well, it's here (www.monitoria2008.blogspot.com) . As last semester I worked with writing and reading on blogs, I plan to use skype for online conversations in class. What do you think about that?

     

    Regards,

     

    Gutemberg

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      CommentAuthorjoseaokc
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2008
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    Hello Everyone,

    My name is José Antônio da Silva. I am an EFL teacher in Brazil. I am happy to see so many familiar names in this forum. I am currently living in Brasilia. I work for a binational school here in Brasilia. I have been teaching for almost 20 years and technology nowadays represents a great part of my teaching and learning. I have been connected to Connectivism for the last two and a half years.

    I am just starting a new semester and lookig forward to having my students use technology for learning.

    All the best

    Jose Antonio

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
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    Welcome Gutemberg and José Antonio.

    I know Jose Antonio is a big fan of Connectivism and has been closely following all George Siemens' posts and articles. What about you, Gutemberg? What has made you join the Connectivism course?

    I'd love to read how you will go about it and why in this thread.

     

     

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    Hi i am minhaaj ur rehman from Pakistan. I have done MBA in Human REsource Management and Bachelors in English Literature. I teach business subjects and ESL. I got to know about this through Barbara Dieu a friend from FOC online. I am looking forward to productive discussion

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
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    Welcome Minhaaj and make yourself at home by filling in your profile and giving us the address of your blog so we can follow your posts on the Connectivism course.

    • CommentAuthorcarlaarena
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
     # 13

    Hi, everybody.

    It's a pleasure to be here with friends and new acquaintances connected in the same purpose of taking a step ahead in our learning and helping shape 21st century education.

    I'm Carla Arena, a curious EFL educator, Brazilian, but temporarily living in the US. I work online for the Binational Center, a language institute, I work for in Brasilia. Right now, I'm devising and soon will start moderating an online session for educators in Brazil. I'm passionate about the connections and learning possibilities we have online. I'm part of the Electronic Village Online Coordinating Team, a group of educators who are part of TESOL. Our main objective is to offer free training for educators all over the globe on topics of their interest. In fact, I've been co-moderating for the past two years the Blogging4Educators online session.

    I blog at http://explorations.bloxi.jp

    Bee, thanks for organizing our gathering here!

    Beijos,

    Carla

    • CommentAuthorrandi
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     # 14

    Hi everyone,

    I'm Randi Harlev from sunny Israel. I rival Bee - I also have about 35 years of experience in diverse aspects of the EFL/ELT world, and was 55 in May:) By the way, I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Bee!

    I work mostly in materials development, both online and print courses. For nearly six years I was the director of pedagogy for The Q Group, a company that developed computer-based and print materials for EFL. About a year and a half ago, I began working as a consultant to publishers, and I also give professional development courses. I'm working with a large international publisher at the moment who is developing an online course for beginner adults, and having a great time. We are a global team spanning three continents, making the work interesting culturally as well.

    I've taught English at all levels, trained both in-service and pre-service teachers here in Israel and abroad, and am always looking for new uses of technology that enhance learning as well as teaching.

    I'm really looking forward to learning more about connectivism, and sharing ideas of how it applies to our world!

    Regards to all,

    Randi

     

    • CommentAuthornelba
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
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    Hello everyone,

    My name is Nelba Quintana. I am a teacher of English Literature and Language from the National University of La Plata, Argentina.I have always been interested in Computing, and in 2001 I was introduced to Webheads by Dafne Gonzalez.

    I moderate an e-group (English Virtual Community), design blogs (http://adults5.motime.com ,  http://jovenes4ma.motime.com)  and develop web content for schools and institutes.

    I have worked on Writing Matrix Project with Prof. Vance Stevens, Rita Z, Sasha and Doris Molero.

    In August 2008, I attended WorldCALL Congress as one of the 11 awardees.

    I'd love to share this experience of learning together.

    All the best, NelbaKiss

    • CommentAuthorHalaFawzi
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2008
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    Hello Bee and  all,

    Thanks Bee for creating this space. I love to see what will come up from the interesting threads and discussions about connectivism in/and ELT.

     Here we go again:

    My name is Hala Fawzi, an English language teacher at a private university in Khartoum, Sudan, since 1994. I am involved in blended learning, online learning and the use of Web 2.0 tools in teaching, learning and for teacher professional development. I am interested in exploring how can ELT field benefit from the notion of connectivism. Can we say that we have now a C-learning ( connectivism learning), with  e-learning, m-learning? 

    Looking forward to learning from/with you all

    Hala http://englishonlinects.blogspot.com/

     

     

    • CommentAuthorsasa
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2008
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    Hi, I'm Saša Sirk from Nova Gorica, Slovenia. I have been teaching EFL at a small local college (to 1st year informatics, mechatronics and countryside management students) for about 5 years. I like exploring online possibilities, it helps me be a better teacher and learner. And person. I'm happy to be here with you. Warmly, Saša http://sasasi.wordpress.com/
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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2008
     # 18

    Hey..lovely...I had not been here for some time and it's filling up. So good to see you!

    Carla, Randi, Nelba, Hala, Sasa - welcome and take a seat. Share with us how and why you envisage to follow the Connectivism course,  which has brought so many people online. Although most of us know each other, when you have a little time fill in your profile for others who don't and feel free to open new topics in the discussions category for issues you would like to tackle.

    I know Hala has some :-)

     

     

    • CommentAuthoranciana
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2008
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    Hi everyone,

    It looks as if I'm a little late starting. I'll try to catch up. I am a retired teacher of ESL in grades 6-12 in Buffalo, New York.  Before I retired I started teaching f2f courses at the State University of New York at Buffalo after receiving my Ph.D in Second Language Education from that institutuion.  During that time I also took the courses leading to the TESOL certificate for online teaching and I discovered the webheads.  What a sharing group of individuals!

    Now I teach online courses about using the Internet for educational purposes from my home in Maryland through the University at Buffalo.  One of the mods in the course is about connectivism so I would like to become more familiar myself with all that this concept involves.

    Maryanne

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2008
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    Welcome Maryanne.

    Better late than never:-) No stress. This is a place away from the "madding crowd", where we can get together and exchange ideas about what strikes us as important informally or get some help in organizing our readings and tools. It is not meant to subtitute or compete with the main course but open a parallel space to weave in situations and issues from the specific ELT and learning foreign language context.

    • CommentAuthorvances
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2008
     # 21

    Hi everyone,

    It's about time I found my way to the kitchen.  It seems we all know each other here already but in case others turn up I'm Vance, a Webhead living in Abu Dhabi.  I blog at http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com though I haven't had much time lately.  Time is a big problem isn't it.  There's so much going on.  It will be interesting to see how people deal with the significant demands of the Connectivism course and all the other events taking place.  If you have a bit of spare time, drop by http://webheads10years.wikispaces.com and see if you can help us celebrate ten years of time spent interacting, some of us, others less.  Others here have another ten years to look forward to.  Just putting time in perspective.  There's never time to do everything, the important thing is to take the time to do something. ^Vance^

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
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    Hi Vance,

    Welcome and hope to read about your impressions on the Connectivism course. Time is definitely an important issue and many people gripe about it. Not surprising - "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"  (Berlioz).

    • CommentAuthorlunas994
    • CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008
     # 23

    Hello everyone.

    My name is Nataša Božić Grojić and I come from Belgrade, Serbia. I teach English in a language school. My students are mostly adults. I am relatively new to Web 2.0, but I love it. I blog at http://lunas994.blogspot.com/ .

    Natasa

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      CommentAuthorbdieu
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2008
     # 24

    Hello Natasa and welcome to our kitchen.Take a seat, a cup of coffee and tell us a little why you love Web  2.0, how it helps you and your students in the English language and what you expect and are getting from the connectivism course :-)

     

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    Hi everyone--

    I am happy to find a somewhat cozier, safer list to contribute to. I have written several books about using technology with students (my homepage) and was expecting to learn more about connectivism, but it is a hard project following the forums at the course Moodle--so many people, so little time, and so much randomness. I look forward to following the threads here.

    My collection of resources on using video online: evovideo. Links to recent papers on technology. My blog: Virtual=Real. My email: ehansonsmi @ yahoo.com

    Cheers-- Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

     

     

     

     

     

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