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Ronaldo Lima (Brazil)  asked his students to talk about "What makes (your city/country) unique" and they created a response to it using  the online tool : animoto Ronaldo's idea was pinched in by Carla Arena (Brazil) based on some project she had carried out with someone some time ago and it's great to see that the online environment allows for these ideas to be spread. http://finally5b.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-makes-brazil-unique-country.html Two other teachers joined the idea : Sasha (Slovenia) http://rostilj.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-makes-slovenia-unique.html and Mr Stout (Japan) http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/toyo-gakuen-university-homestay-english_7990.html Will you and your students be the next?

Last Sunday, Social Networking Congress 2009  finished its first session with great success. Abotu 699 participants from all over the world met on line to listen to ICT specialists and participate in MOODLE forums. The organizing team worked hard and as a testimony of this work you can have all the information about what happened in this event in a MOODLE platform, forums where to interchange knowledge and experience, and a blog. If you were not able to attend the sessions, do not worry. The videoconferences were recorded and and available at http://avealmec.blogspot.com/ Personally, I was very pleased working with so good professionals and warm people. I learned a lot about how to organize  and moderate an online event. I hope ARCALL and AVEALMEC will continue working together in projects like this one.

I am very proud to say that I have been appointed as the coordinator of the ICT area at the School of Languages of the National University of La Plata. It is really a challenge because this area has just been opened. I would like to thank Dafne Gonzalez, Vance Stevens, Gavin Dudeney, Nik Peachey, EVO sessions, Webheads and all my cyberfriends who have inspired me to develop my Internet skills and knowlege. :-)

Today there were educational sessions at the Escuela de Lenguas of the National University of La Plata celebrating its 15th anniversary. The teachers who belong to the School staff shared the experiences or research works they have carried out this year. The sessions were grouped into three sections: ICT, Literature and Linguistics. As you may imagine, I took part in the ICT sessions ;-) In this opportunity, I spoke about WorldCALL - what it is and its aims- and made a brief description of the latest trends presented in Fukuoka. Of course, I showed a picture of the awarded ladies in their kimonos!!!! I was not alone , Jennifer Verschoor came from Buenos Aires to La Plata. Together we spoke about ARCALL ( CALL Argentina) and our intention to fulfill our intention of spreading WorldCALL work. This is the power point presentation. Unfortunatelly the background is blue in slideshare :-( Escuela de Lenguas 15th anniversary View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: nel...

WorldCall 2008 in Fukuoka, Japan has been an incredible experience! I cannot say what was the best part of it. WorldCall committee and all the people involved were so kind and efficient ! I would like to say thank you to Thomas Robb for his immence patience and kindness, Prof. Akio Iwasaki and Hisako Yamauchi, Mike Levy among others. Meeting Webheads was fantastic! Most of the awardees were Webheads: Erika Cruvinel (Brazil), Hala Fawzi (Sudan), Neny Isharyanti (Indonesia), Evelyn Izquierdo (Venezuela), Nina Lyulkun (Ukraine), Jennifer Verschoor and I (Argentina). We also met Vance Stevens. Webheads ladies formed a very nice and noisy group. We laughed a lot and had a great time talking about ourselves, families, work, dreams and projects. Link to WorldCALL 2008 blog http://worldcall2008japan.blogspot.com/ Vance's presentation with Rita, Sasha and me. http://vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#next Poster Presentation with Jennifer Verschoor Democratic Learning For Developing View...