English Virtual Community

I am very happy to announce that an article about Writing Matrix - EVC group will be published soon in TESOL magazine. Thanks to all EVC members who have participated, WM colleagues, Catherine Beck and TESOL magazine who made this possible :) There is another article written by all the facilitators which will be published in TESL-EJ March 2008 . Enjoy the reading!

I have created a blog for people who have lost part of their hearing ability. People with hearing problems are more than you can imagine. So, if you read this post , please, spread the URL of this blog. Thank you. http://blena.wordpress.com/

Last Tuesday Jennifer and I finished a course on Computing Tools given by Intel Educar in Buenos Aires . We really had a great time sharing ideas, knowledge, laughing, projects . We really get on well, I hope we'll do something together in the future.

I am very happy to announce that I became a Second Life citizen. My name is Nelba Aeon. Why did I get my Second Life Citizenship? On one hand I want to explore this 3-D virtual World everybody talks about and on the other because Gavin Dudeney kindly invited me to one of his sessions in Second Life. ( Thank you, Gavin!). Unfortunately I cannot enter SL from my PC because it does not fulfill SL' s requirements ( You need a strong computer specially for the graphics), so I went to a cybercafe. I had my first experience this morning. At the beginning it was a bit disappointing because I was unexperienced and did not know exactly what to do... I walked around, went up and down some stairs, flew...but when I was about to leave, I met a group of people chatting in different languages! Amazing! and finally I met a Canadian lady who talked to me in English. We chatted for some time. I was really happy because she was a newbie, too. Well, that is all for now from SL.

Matute's Blog - Sharing Knowledge...: Pingback: Tracking distributed "conversations" More about Pingback and Trackback: http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback , http://hitormiss.org/projects/trackback/

" The 2006 K-12 Online Conference provided outstanding opportunities for free, collaborative, accessible professional learning for educators around the globe. The 2007 conference is shaping up to provide more exceptional learning opportunities in the same spirit of collaboration and sharing! This year’s fantastic line up of keynote presenters will create an inviting and welcoming introduction in which the sharing of ideas among diverse learners working in diverse contexts continues. These distinguished folks will not only extend the conversations, but also invite each of us to stretch and grow as they share their expertise and wisdom in their respective strands. We are delighted they have each agreed to accept their roles as keynote presenters." We are happy to participate in the K12 Online 2007 as presenters :Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Sasa Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer “ Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating” htt...

When did I start using Internet? I think it coincides with the economic change in Argentina ( 1 peso = 1 dollar) in the late 90's. I started using e-mailing. I have friedns and family living abroad or in other cities, and they usually complain about the fact that I am pretty lazy for writing letters and going to the post office. So, e-mailing was a solution for me. A really turning point took place in 2001 when I was invited to an on line course on " How to evalute websites" carried out by another Argentinean - Prof. Norma Scagnoli- working at the University of Illinois. She introduced me into the virtual world and there I met one of my dearest cyberfriends: Prof. Dafne Gonzalez. From that moment my virtual life started. I bagan exploring the net and that same year I opened my firs e-group: English Virtual Community. My first steps on the Internet were really awful. I used to have dial up connection, so my experience was a bit poor. I could not spend much time on line and...

The more I surf, the more tools I find for posting. I have found this video in a blog . It is even better - well, different, too- than YouTube because you can choose the language for the subtitles. Yes, believe your eyes: you can choose the language for the subtitles!!!! New: I am very proud to say there is a comment in this post written by Gavin Dudeney who wrote How to teach English with Technology". Thank you, Gavin!

I am very happy to present this mini video about Writing Matrix Project recorded at the entrance of the Escuela de Lenguas of the National University of La Plata. NEW : Read an article written by Prof. María Claudia Bellusci about this presentation. Thank you, María Claudia!