Multiliterate Doris

How literacies change the way we do things

2011-01-15T10:50:00.001-04:30

For children e-mail is "something your dad does" and their search engine of choice is as likely to be YouTube as Google.

For assistant head teacher Amy Barton, social media has to be part of the curriculum.

"Social media is challenging the traditional view of teaching. You can't get away from it, we've got to teach it," she said.

Chris Hague is one of the directors of Radiowaves.

"We set up at a time when schools were shutting the door on social networks, we were saying that they needed to embrace them," he said.

"Our first priority was to make sure it was safe."

Many schools still block access to YouTube, Facebook, instant messaging and other technologies that are the favourite haunts of young people.

But the tide could be turning, thinks Professor Stephen Heppell, a leading educationalist who has been advocating the use of radical technology in schools for years.

"Half of schools have now unblocked YouTube. Five years ago it was one in every 1,000," he said.

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"Many schools still block access to YouTube, Facebook, instant messaging and other technologies that are the favourite haunts of young people. But the tide could be turning, thinks Professor Stephen Heppell, a leading educationalist who has been advocating the use of radical technology in schools for years. "Half of schools have now unblocked YouTube. Five years ago it was one in every 1,000," he said."
- BBC News - Profile update: Your teacher has now joined Facebook (ver en Google Sidewiki)

VenTESOL XXIX Annual National Convention

2011-01-06T19:25:00.000-04:30

We are getting ready to participate in The XXIX Annual National Convention "Redefining Today's ELT in Venezuela" It will be held in Maracaibo-Zulia State

The event will be carried out at Universidad Rafael Urdaneta (URU) during the weekend of May 28th (Sat) and 29th (Sun). You may learn from this important university here: http://www.uru.edu/.

The Convention Organizing Committee is looking for volunteers:

Do you live in Maracaibo?

Do you want to be a volunteer?

There are many ways to participate, click on this link http://ventesol.ning.com/forum/topics/annual-convention-maracaibo and add your contact information there.

If you are planning to attend the 2011 convention, Join our XXIX Annual Convention Group.

Live VenTESOL's spirit!

VenTESOL Executive Board 2010-2011

Revisiting online communities.. my Yahoo Groups

2011-01-06T17:44:00.000-04:30

Image by: Prof. Miguel Mendoza

On this New Year, I decided to try to go back to my online communities. I started by visiting a discussion list I belong to and haven't visited in a long time.

This discussion list is: VENELT · VEN-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING, the home for English Teachers in Venezuela. There we discuss various themes related to the EFL profession. The moderators are: Juan Pino-Silva (Ph.D.), from Universidad Simón Bolívar (R)and Evelyn Izquierdo (M.A.in EFL) from Universidad Central de Venezuela. They cordially invite EFL educators to join in and share their thoughts in this community.

To become a new member please send a message to Venelt-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. and another one to educaonline2@yahoo.com. The message MUST include:
(a) your reasons as to why you want to join this group,
(b) your interest in Venezuelan ELT issues and
(c) a brief note about your background.

Their latest discussion is about the profile of the Good Collaborator in online communities. I must say that I haven't been a good collaborator lately, but on line discussion lists were the place where I first could read,and learn that there were others educators I could talk to or learn from to finally dare to share and even participate in projects.

Well, reading the list I found the question Juan Pino asked:

During the early seventies and eighties research development on the "good language learner" was followed with interest by both researchers and classroom teachers. The expression "successful L1 and L2 learner" was everywhere in those days. Borrowing the word "success" from those days and that literature (or whatever you understand by success in the context this question is made), what attributes would you say should be part of a "Good collaborator/participant" in online groups such as Venelt?

He then asks participants in the list to comment if they deem necessary. Ouch! that hurt ... I felt so bad.. a good collaborator.. *shaked my head and felt guilty* but anyway I started reading what others said about it. The first one was from my dear friend Evelyn Izquierdo:

'good' collaborator in an online community might be that one who always contributes with interesting points to be discussed; someone who actively participates in the disussions and/or add new issues; someone who is always willing to share useful information and resources with his/her peers; someone who encourages others to participate or is a sample model to follow with his/her work.

I absolutely agree with Eve. *sighs*. Another response I related to was Juan's. He didn't answer what he thought but asked two participants their opinions: a colaborator and a lurker. (lurker is someone who reads and follow what's happening in a list but doesn't feel ready yet to participate fully... I am a lurker in this list now.. *smiles*). He came up with a list of 23 items:

1. Motivation,
2. Commitment to the group,
3. Manager of a number of strategies to participate,
4. Good reader and writer in both L1 and L2,
5. Leadership,
6. Desire to play the game and compete to be on top,
7. Fully aware of what is to be gained as a result of collaborating,
8. Use of online writing tools such as spell checkers, dictionaries (is there a better word for this?), Google, Wikipedia,etc. With the purpose of gaining confidence in one's writing,
9. desire to get noticed,
10. Show respect for and value all opinions,
11. Display leadership ability,
12. Mobilize and get others to mobilize,
13. Self rate own and rate other collaborators' production,
14. Separate daily, weekly hours to respond or jump in conversations,
15. Do whatever you do online for an additional purpose such as doing own research, keep abreast of ELT issues, get ideas for the classroom,
16. Know all or most of the tools of trade well,
17. keep own yahoo group (or any other tool ) with students as participants,
18. Ability to take the (virtual) floor,
19. Accept that we're learners of both matter and English,
20. Manage anxiety, stress, family problems to be a player, a winner if possible,
21. Metacognition: awareness,
22. Never say :I don't have an opinion, I don't like this topic, I'm not interested.
23. Manage frustration levels ( take some time out but come back to the list)

Carlos Mayora's contribution was also interesting he related the good on line collaborator with the idea of the English Teachers as professionals. He supported his position on the following quote:

In 1997, Ur said that English Teachers as professionals

    * "are an identifiable group, whose members are interested in interaction with one another for the sake of learning {...}
    * "communicate innovatory ideas, whether theoretical or practical, to one another and to the public at large {...}
    * "also learn continually -about our subject matter, about teaching methods, about many other things that make us better educated and therefore better educators {...}
    * "are responsible for training new teachers"

(Ur, 1997 reprinted with permission in Richards and Renandya, 2002: 391)

Also, he commented on Juan's list what overlaps and added two element missing in the quote: (a) mastering a technological component, and (b) "products" of such tasks need to be visible in the screens of other teachers.

Now, after reading this great collaborations.. I realized how much I was missing. I think I fill the profile of the English teacher as a professional and most of the items Juan's mention. A little bit to excuse myself for being a lurker..is that ...writing this post and commenting about it.. as well as promoting the discussion list ..it's my own way to participate, collaborate and share... I believe in open spaces.. but lists are more intimate. Well, also this is the way I won't forget what I learned from the participants in the list. Thanks so much for contributing and sharing..here, there or wherever you share.

To finish the post .. my dear reader... what's your thought about it...?

Doris3m
Keep on shining Love and Peace!

2010-09-29T06:26:00.001-04:30

Digital literacies for a modern context

2010-08-14T11:43:00.002-04:30

Conole 15 june

View more webinars from grainne.

Information Literacy Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

2010-04-18T12:47:00.001-04:30

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Information Literacy Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

View more presentations from Mark Mitchell.

Wordle In The Classroom

2010-04-18T12:45:00.001-04:30

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Wordle In The Classroom

View more presentations from Hellen Harvey.

The IATEFL 3rd Annual Pecha Kucha Evening

2010-04-10T10:49:00.001-04:30

This happeed at the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG Pre-Conference Event, Harrogate, UK, on 7 April 2010. Pecha Kucha is presenting a slide show of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds, giving a total presentation time of six minutes and forty seconds before the next speaker is up. wowow! Wish I could do that!!!!

This is an example... Have fun!!!!

Shaping the Way We Teach English

2010-04-10T10:13:00.000-04:30

Shaping the Way We Teach English is a 14-module teacher training video series developed and produced in cooperation with the University of Oregon. The series incorporates classroom scenes from around the world and is accompanied by a teacher trainer manual and additional readings.

The goals of the program are:
1) To build an academic or “pedagogical” foundation in language teaching.
2) To improve language teaching classroom practices.

The 14 modules are divided like this:

Approaches to Language Teaching: Foundations
Module 1: Contextualizing Language
Module 2: Building Language Awareness
Module 3: Integrating Skills
Module 4: Pairwork / Groupwork
Module 5: Learner Feedback

Approaches to Language Teaching: Extension
Module 6: Managing Large Classes
Module 7: Learning Strategies
Module 8: Authentic Materials
Module 9: Critical & Creative Thinking
Module 10: Alternative Assessment

Focus on the Learner
Module 11: Individual Learner Differences
Module 12: Younger Learners (K-5)

Teacher Development
Module 13: Peer Observations
Module 14: Refl ective Teaching

From what I have seen so far .. this material is excellent and I am going to propose professors in my university to follow it... so keep tune ..we will reporting our adventures following this training program to be better EFL professors.

Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College

2010-04-02T11:11:00.000-04:30

Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College

Howard Rheingold and "21st Century Literacies"

2010-01-29T09:17:00.001-04:30

Howard Rheingold gives a talk titled "21st Century Literacies" at the Reboot Britain event in London, July, 2009. Anyone who knows me knows that I love Howard Rheingold - in this talk he claims that we need to teach students how to use their 'crap detectors'.

2009-09-30T07:56:00.001-04:30

Photo Art

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Enseñanza Cooperativa.. y eso con que se come..

2008-07-04T16:47:00.003-04:30

Le toca el turno a la enseñanza cooperativa... resulta que yo vengo usando ese aprendizaje cooperativo desde hace mucho rato y lo encuentro que funciona muy bien... la cosa es saberlo aplicar. De las cosas que he aprendido es que se debe aplicar los distintos tipos de aprendizaje de manera ecleptica.. tomando de cada una de las teorías de aprendizaje lo que funcione en tu circunstancia muy especial como lo decía nuestro querido Ortega y Gasset. Curucuteando por la web, específicamente leyendo el blog Aulaciencia: como participar para aprender, me encontré con esta powerpoint que me parece muy acertada.

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También me encontré este espectacular articulo sobre el aprendizaje cooperativo de la Ing. Margarita Aste. Ella comienza su articulo así:

Entremos a una clase cualquiera, no importa la materia que se esté estudiando. ¿Qué es lo que veremos? Probablemente esté el profesor “dictando” clases (hablando solo) o realizando la única estructura empleada para lograr la participación de sus alumnos: Pregunta Para Toda La Clase- Respuesta Un Alumno.
Supongamos que el salón tiene 30 alumnos, si el profesor está dictando la clase, existe un 0% de participación de los alumnos. En el caso de estar en Pregunta-Respuesta, 1 de 30 o un 3.3% del salón están participando. ¿Y el restante 96.7%? ¡No debe sorprendernos que los profesores tengan problemas de disciplina! A todo nos gusta participar, es más aprendemos mucho mejor si estamos participando, hablando, preguntando y discutiendo. ¿Por qué entonces se quiere que los alumnos estén callados? (¿Alguna vez ha estado escuchando únicamente…cuánto tiempo puede estar así? ¡Aún a los adultos se nos complica esto!)

Creo que lo que señala la Ing. es absolutamente cierto.

Otra super presentación que sigue explicando lo que es el aprendizaje cooperativo...

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Wondering about 2.0

2008-05-01T10:12:00.000-04:30

To my siter

2008-01-05T20:16:00.001-04:30

The man who planted tress

2008-01-04T17:01:00.001-04:30

Excellent story... hope you enjoy it.

Announcing Bloggers for the sep-dec2007 trimester!!!

2007-09-24T09:28:00.000-04:00

Well, finally ...here they are:

Let's start with Alejandro Araujo... http://portumaracucho.blogspot.com
Cristina Velasco: http://tinavelasco.blogspot.com/
Rs.Ellasalvatore: http://ellasalvatore.blogspot.com/
Johann Nuñez: http://federer-johann.blogspot.com/
Anabell Ayala: my blog http://anabell5ayala.blogspot.com/
Eric Sanchez: http://cirewhite.blogspot.com/
Roberto Roman: http://robblog12.blogspot.com/
Ludim Pereira: http://ludimpereira.blogspot.com/
Deyjos Carruci: my blog http://deyjos13.blogspot.com/
Maria Zerpa Blanco: http://mariandres2901.blogspot.com/
Manuel Hidalgo: http://motoman21.blogspot.com/
Luis Enrique Govea Diaz: http://kikegovea.blogspot.com/
Ileana Yoris: http://ileana85.blogspot.com/

Those are all for now...

Firma contra el cambio a la Constitución Nacional Petition

2007-08-23T23:13:00.000-04:00

Firma contra el cambio a la Constitución Nacional Petition

‘e-Tools n Tips’

2007-08-18T10:51:00.000-04:00

Dr Elizabeth Hanson-Smith posted at our webheads in Action Yahoo Group this announcement: Australian Flexible Learning offers some neat free seminars online. This notice relates to the next series to be offered.

‘e-Tools n Tips’
These ‘how to’ sessions are especially for those NEW to e-learning. There are 8 sessions on moblogs, podcasting, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, personal learning spaces, digital storytelling, video in e-learning, and wikis and blogs.

ALL of these sessions are FREE and require NO REGISTRATION.

You simply join the sessions using the relevant URLs found on the Networks site at: http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2007/pid/440 There you'll find more information about the online seminars:

All sessions are live synchronous ones using the virtual classroom, Elluminate.

‘Live Conversation’
This is a synchronous session using Elluminate associated with the lead article of Edition 14 of The Knowledge Tree e-journal – http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree

When: TUESDAY 21 AUGUST 2 – 3pm AESTWhere: http://tinyurl.com/3cq9rd or https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=995&password=M.FEEDBBE1DF8D17DCE69A254F8565AB

Content: What is ‘connected intelligence’ ? What is its impact on learning in organisations? How can you use some ‘connecting intelligence’ tools, such as ‘Facebook’? For the answers to these and other intriguing questions, join the live conversation! To read the article before the session go to: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/edition-14/

Help with Elluminate
To participate in an Elluminate session your computer will need to be configured to run the Elluminate software. To download Elluminate and to configure your computer click this link – Configuration RoomYou need a microphone and speakers to interact in the Elluminate virtual classroom. In some cases, you will need to contact your IT people to open ports on firewalls. Documents on accessing, using and giving information to IT professionals on Elluminate is on the Networks site (scroll down the page): http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2007/pid/259

An upcoming practice session in using Elluminate is on - -THURSDAY 23 August, 12 – 1pm AEST https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=995&password=M.CFF4A1C752D16CABBF2EFB54DA6EBB

Also, for ‘hands on ‘ assistance at any time, do not hesitate to contact the Networks Team –

Email: networks@flexiblele arning.net. auPhone: +61 2 6207 4832 Jyothi Jayaram

Kind regards
CathyCathy

BaxterE-learning Networks Project Manager

Supporting e-learning projects for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework

» Paper Blogging - more ideas! Mobile Learning

2007-08-18T10:24:00.000-04:00

I found this wonderful idea on how to teach what blogging is about, using a paper based task... I found it at mlearning posted by Leonard Low. Leonard has a great blog dedicated to mobile devices and how to teach using mobile phones, PDAs, etc.

This is the description of the task
» Paper Blogging - more ideas! Mobile Learning

Here you can find Papper blogging task.

Also if you'd like to participate in an online seminar you can join Leonard Low, who will be explaining what MOBLOGS are:

MOBLOGS (Images, Audio and Video)
Presenter: Leonard Low, Canberra Institute of Technology

When: Monday 3 September at 12:00pm to 1:00pm AEST
Where: Access the session at least 15mins before the session start time here or go to http://tinyurl.com/2elxw5

What:
What is a moblog?
Try it out!
Why would someone use a moblog in education?
Overview of various sites which enable simple moblogging (using various media)
Creating customised (and more flexible) moblogs by connecting your social web services
Advanced moblogging techniques: geotagging and locoblogging

Who: Leonard is Educational Technology Strategist at the Canberra Institute of Technology. He is author of the Mobile Learning Blog (http://mlearning.edublogs.org), ACT Representative on the E-Standards Experts Group (EEG), and was Lead Researcher for the EEG's Standards for M-Learning project. Leonard has over ten years of experience in flexible learning as a student, teacher, manager, administrator and developer, and combines these perspectives in his work in flexible and mobile learning.

EAD Course

2007-08-04T11:56:00.000-04:00

Time Lines!!!

2007-08-04T11:36:00.000-04:00

These is a great idea for timelines! Here you can see Paris Hilton's timeline

I registered to Edublogger in Español!!!!!

2007-07-31T14:52:00.000-04:00

Find more videos like this on EduBloggerWorld

My Friend Karen Garcia

2007-07-25T07:06:00.000-04:00

My friend Karen Garcia is a special lady. She's been my fairy godmother and on line sister for the last three or four years. She's from Puerto Rico, originally but she lives in Massachusetts right now. I met her when I joined the Webheads in Action Community. I was participating in an online conf at LearningTimes, when I heard that beautiful Puerto Rican voice of her for the first time. It was such a nice, cantarina (like a song) voice, it felt really good and I nmediately liked her. At that time I was a newie to the online world. She helped me and adopted me, tutored me, advised me, and make me be a better teacher.

I visited her blog The Guru speaks, today and found this beautiful picture that I want to share with you today. This picture belongs to ROSA IBARRA, paintings/obra: http://www.rosaibarra.com/.

The angel in this picture represents at least to me all the love and friendship Karen Garcia has given this online teacher from Venezuela. I'm writing this post as an homenage to you my dear Angel Friend.

Let's sing it!

2007-05-28T07:28:00.000-04:00