Saturday, 6 Feb highlights

• Rita's presentation at Elluminate with a clear classification of different web 2.0 tools followed by a demonstration of how she's using them with her students. Superb!

The Web 2.0 Honing Social Skills

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• Then we had another wonderful session at Elluminate, during which we put together a Bubbleshare album working collaboratively and having lots of fun in the process. Here's the outcome:

BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

1 Feb highlights

Today we finish Week 3. Incredible!
So many interesting things this week:

• Alicia, Analía and Rita put together a great wrap up in the YG files
  

• This conversation created by Vicky Saumell using Chinswing. She invited teachers around the world to introduce themselves. I think she has managed to produce invaluable authentic material for listening practice. Bonus track: listening to some famous webheads talking about themselves. A gem!
  

29 Jan highlights

We are already in Week 3: Integrating Online Speaking and Listening. This has been a most fruitful week so far, with very interesting comments in the Enhancing Lessons Yahoo Group and warm friendly chats at Tapped In.
Some highlights:

• Alicia's idea for using Chinswing:

"How about this idea? Children love listening to stories and inventing stories. After teaching and practising the past tense, the teacher could start a story in CS. Sth like 'It was Sunday and Roberta was going to visit her grandparents who lived in the wood. She woke up at seven and .....'
Then the children would have to continue the story (we could even ask them to begin by repeating the last sentence in the previous post). The teacher could post again if necessary (e.g if they have lost track of the story).

• The discussion Rita started in Tapped In, which allowed me to discover this wonderful tool.

• The links to Studystack provided by Robert. Great tool for learning and practising vocabulary.
  

• The Flickr toys links provided by Analía. They are great for creating stories associated with images. Here they are: Bookr Bubblr Phrasr