My LearningWithComputers

This week at Learning with Computers, Ana Ma. Menezes is helping us all learn about “Microblogging with Twitter“. She’s a great facilitator, and despite my limited availabilities I’ve felt eager to give this issue some minutes… Somebody either in this community or at Webheads in Action had mentioned Tweetwheel, and I gave it a try. You can see the result above (click on the image to see the original page, and hover on any “friend” to see how many friends we have in common). I’m currently following 81 people, mostly EFL teachers, all of them usually twittering about EFL teaching and sharing useful resources. I guess I needn’t explain how this does away with the isolation of traditional f2f teaching in the classroom, and how it maximizes opportunities for professional development with like-minded colleagues!

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Has it ever happened to you? You have a message going inside your mind, rumbling and mulling inside your head…. A message you’d like to put in black and white (or whatever combination of colours that is in digital form)… and then publish and post so that you can reach all your colleagues… But life goes on, and you work hard, and make some small attempts at spreading the word, and keep telling yourself “one day, I’ll be able to show it in neon lights”.

So there I was, browsing TeacherTube in search of a video that discusses how new technologies can help young learners learn… and, voila!

Download Video: Posted by suziea at TeacherTube.com.

I usually don’t give videos that last more than 5 minutes a chance, but since its description read:

An explanation of what Web 2.0 is, a look at how it benefits children, a closer look at blogs and wikis and tips on how to get started

… I decided to “give it a click”…

I have never heard about “suziea” before, have no idea where she comes from or why she uploaded this video to the web, but what a surprise to watch 16 minutes and keep anticipating the words… I think I’ve found a twin soul in cyberspace… one who’s better at multimedia, though, as I’ve never produced a video yet!

Have you found your twin cyber-soul yet? While you wait for such a moment, why not enjoy this video clip?

Gladys

PS: if you are wondering how to embed a video from TeacherTube into your edublog too, follow the link to “Gladys Learns Edublogs” in the comments below.

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testing an oline blog editor I learnt about from Gustavo, whom I've recently met at EdubloggerArgento.

On its homepage, I read: 

WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog.
Create Post Entries for your Blog from right here, completely free, no
membership required, can Post to multiple Blogs simultaneously, manage
your Posts, works with all major Blog programs, and is easy-peasy!

 Promising, though I've just failed to insert a picture from my Flickr!

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