Oct

10

Twitter Fiction

October 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

This morning I finally gave my presentation Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 characters at the III National Conference of Microfiction in Spanish and in English at UCEL in Rosario, Argentina.
I’m posting the abstract and the Power Point presentation together with the links to some Twitter Fiction writers in both languages.
Twitter Fiction
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Jun

20

Towards E-learning 2.0 in ELT

June 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

Yesterday we had the pleasure of giving a presentation called Towards E-Learning 2.0 on ELT with Jesica Bassani at the III SBS Conference for English Language Teachers Blending and Bonding.  We analyzed how we can build communicative online learning environments based on the principles of the Web 2.0. It was an amazing experience and we [...]

Jun

30

TICs y Lenguas

June 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

Having been an active participant in the English speaking edublogosphere for some years, I also feel the need to connect to Spanish-speaking edubloggers. After attending Rosario BlogDay, joining Edublogger Argento, and taking online courses in my L1 for teachers of different foreign languages, I became aware of the growing community of Argentinian educators who are [...]

Feb

6

TBE – Final Assignment

February 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

 After a very hectic semester, Jesica and I have been finally able to submit our final assignment for the Teaching Business English Course – E-teacher Program scholarship.
During the course we explored and gained a deeper insight into various aspects of TBE such as needs analysis, CLT, resources, cross-cultural business communication and material design, among [...]

Dec

4

TESOL Electronic Village Online 2008

December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association has announced the 2008 EVO sessions (January 14 – February 24). Every year, EFL/ESL teachers from all over the world take part in online seminars and workshops to explore and discuss topics related to the integration of technology in English Language Teaching.
This year I have the pleasure [...]

Aug

31

E-Teacher Program

August 31, 2007 | 6 Comments

The great news was finally announced!
About a month ago, Jesica and I received an e-mail from the US Embassy in Buenos Aires telling us that we had been nominated for the E-Teacher Program,  an online program in different areas for English Language Teachers.
Yesterday we were officially announced that we have been accepted to take an online [...]

Aug

4

E-learning 2.0 and Internet Transparency

August 4, 2007 | 3 Comments

Last month, Jesica Bassani and I wrote a short article for an important local newspaper to present two new courses that will be launched at our workplace this semester: a blended TOEFL iBT course and an online Business English course. We presented them as E-learning 2.0 since we are designing them on Moodle with a [...]