Delicious Discovery!

WWW = What a Wonderful World! 


As I work on multiple computers, this is a very useful tool! At home I have the desktop and a laptop. At work, there are 2 computers in the library, 12 in the Learning Center and 1 in each classroom. I usually go away to the beach on weekends and there I don’t have internet connection, so I have to go to those Cyber Cafés. Now, I can have all my favorite sites at my fingertips!


The most amazing thing is the possibility of sharing the bookmarks! Before, I used to recommend sites to students and repeat addresses all the time. Now, they can have all of them there and they can even follow me. It’s about sharing and following! Some sites can be kept private, though. We can find other people interested in the same topic, check out their researches and follow them!  We can subscribe to the person’s site and whenever that person finds something new on that topic, we can know the person has found it and we can add it to our site.  

Another thing I like in Del.icio.us is the fact now my favorite list is neat. When tagging, we have to be very specific so that we won’t waste time later on trying to remember what that site is all about.

Gil has also recommended DIIGO, which is another amazing bookmarking tool! So many possibilities... 

What a Wonderful World out there to be explored! 

Helô  

Aural and Oral Skill-Building

As preparation for the beginning of these reflections, I resorted to some fundamentals I was lacking. In Aural and Oral Skills, Peter McKenzie-Brown states: "aural" is what we hear, whereas "oral" is what we say.

Still according to him, the maxim 

"we are given two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we talk" 

should serve as a reminder for teachers when planning lessons, especially when it comes to teaching beginners.

My challenge this week is to keep an eye (or, better, both ears) on my Teacher Talking Time

and consider: 

"The best classroom activities cross skill boundaries"

I'm curious to know what you guys have been doing to cross skill boundaries! 

Helô 

The Point of no Return

I’m an X digital immigrant in the middle of Ys and Zs and wondering what’s next…Ws?

Born in the late 60s, having had no access to a fixed phone until the age of 10 or so. For some  reason, I still remember that number and my classmates’ first and last names… Now I know I can count on the “cell memory”, so I don’t care about remembering numbers…

I still remember the sensation when I saw the first color TV and when I watched the soccer game in color for the fisrt time… What an impact!

Nowadays, I wonder what would make such a huge impact… Everything happens so fast we don’t even have time to absorb all the changes around us!

Big challenge is surviving, in a sound state of mind, in the middle of all the transformations we have been going through...

Trying to adapt to the new media and methodology approaches is a MUST. I see it as a point of no return...

Inevitably, there will always be the gap. This is the beauty of the generation gap…There’s always something to learn from the fresh young brains and something to pass on to those same fearless curious brains!


Helô