TEACHERS, DON'T MISS THIS!!!

First I thought of commenting in your blogs to give you this informations, but then I said ‘WOW, we’re learning to blog after all, so why not posting this information for you all!.” So, here it is.

I want to strongly recommend you to go to this link http://tiny. cc/qPxSG which redirects you to the recording of one of the live sessions we had at the online course I was taking during holidays. It’s really very interesting and worth hearing. It was held by James Farmer (james@incsub.org), Australian, who is currently one of the ‘capos’ in Edublog, one of the largest education blogging network on the web. The recording lasts an hour and a half, but don’t worry, you can hear it while doing anything else in your computer. It’s not that you have to spend an hour looking at the same screen.

Unluckily, you cannot interact as it is just a recording, but anyway it is also a great opportunity to see how WIZIQ works. WIZIQ is a server that gives you the possibility to have online conferences, classes, chats or whatever with a great tool as the blackboard. And you will see that not only you can interact with a headset or a mic, but also with writing chatting. I find it wonderful and I really want to start using it with our graduates, so that they can keep on practicing their language.

Once you find the recording, give it some time to load and I recommend you to start with ‘slide 10’, as it is where the session itself starts. The previous ones are the recordings of how the hosts are preparing everything to get started and is a kind of boring.

James Farmer has been a teacher at La Trobe and RMIT Universities, a lecturer in education design at Deakin and the online community editor at The Age. He is currently CEO of the largest education blogging network on the web, Edublogs (http://edublogs.org), and consults for education, media and community organizations. While not in a symbiotic relationship with his laptop he enjoys a spot of red, interesting opinions and playing classical guitar (poorly)."

If you want to learn more about blogging, I invite you to visit www.blogging4educators.pbwiki.com which is the place from where I’ve learned what I know so far.

REMINDER! Don't forget to comment on each others' posts whenever you visit them!!!

Miss Pato