tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707903665311414532024-03-13T05:14:43.581+01:00Sunflower EFLSunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-17821997385788256182013-04-15T11:27:00.000+02:002013-04-15T11:27:10.560+02:00HApPiLy BaCk OnLiNe !<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Due to personal issues, I haven't been posting much recently. I am really sorry for what I've missed in the last year and for not having been able to get in touch with some of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apart from taking care of my family, I have written a book. You can find it here: <a href="http://lanostravitaconildiabete.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>"Dolce Amore"</i></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The book has to do with my recent absence from the web and explains what has happend to us in the last year and a half. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The book and the website are in Italian, but I am planning an English version very soon. In the meantime, I am sure you can get the gist of the website by pasting it into an online translator. Should you have any questions, I am now here to answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy to be back,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Silvia</span></div>
Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-60840674854662515142011-11-10T22:06:00.001+01:002011-11-10T22:07:50.912+01:00How do we bridge the gap?<div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Can online exchange really bridge the gap? Can using a single common language really help us become quality global communicators?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The question remains open. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">What do you think?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Global Communication"</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Week 9</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Silvia Purpuri and Retsam Zhang, </div><div style="text-align: center;">as part of the Massive Open Education Course </div><div style="text-align: center;">on </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/">Creativity and Multicultural Communication </a></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-75876352609192298252011-11-10T21:51:00.000+01:002011-11-10T21:51:01.492+01:00The Sound of Silence<div style="text-align: center;">Close your eyes and listen to the song:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now think of the following lines:</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 95%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 95%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"... and in the naked light I saw</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 95%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ten thousand people, maybe more</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 95%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">People </span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">talking without speaking</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 95%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">People</span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> hearing without listening</span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> ..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you had to find a sentence or a word to describe how these 4 lines make you feel, what woudl that be? Why? Feel free to share your emotions here!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Global Communication"</span> </h6><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Week 9</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Silvia Purpuri and Retsam Zhang, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">as part of the Massive Open Education Course </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">on </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/">Creativity and Multicultural Communication </a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div><br />
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</span>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-78693654733710389142011-10-10T13:17:00.000+02:002011-10-10T13:17:49.334+02:00Quality of Life - Quality of Communication<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"The quality of your life is the quality of your communication" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>- Anthony Robbins - </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</b></span></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">You are welcome to add your comments here: </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><a href="http://willyou.typewith.me/p/Global%20Communication" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://willyou.typewith.me/p/G</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>lobal%20Communication</a></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Global Communication"</span> </h6><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Week 9</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Silvia Purpuri and Retsam Zhang, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">as part of the Massive Open Education Course </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">on </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/">Creativity and Multicultural Communication </a></span></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"> </span></span></h6>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-56422076688031434372011-09-18T13:33:00.003+02:002011-09-18T14:08:09.798+02:00Language Barrier and the Digital Divide<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If <i>language barrier</i> and <i>the digital divide</i> seem to be the major challenges to global communication, how do we bridge the gap?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Record your own voxpoop message </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">@ </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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"Global Communication"<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Week 9</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Silvia Purpuri and Retsam Zhang, </div><div style="text-align: center;">as part of the Massive Open Education Course </div><div style="text-align: center;">on </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/">Creativity and Multicultural Communication </a></div></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-80062683680411242282011-09-12T17:13:00.003+02:002011-09-19T14:35:08.205+02:00What are the main challenges of Global Communication?<div style="text-align: center;">What are the main challenges of Global Communication? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Hang your own note on our Wallwisher!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/GlobalCommunication"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/GlobalCommunication </span></a><br />
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"Global Communication" </div><div style="text-align: center;">Week 9</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Silvia Purpuri and Retsam Zhang, </div><div style="text-align: center;">as part of the Massive Open Education Course </div><div style="text-align: center;">on </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/">Creativity and Multicultural Communication </a></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-55633283630706969972011-09-11T16:51:00.001+02:002011-09-18T14:08:54.668+02:00On Global Communication - a starter for brainstorming!<div style="text-align: center;">As part of the Massive Open Education Course (MOOC)</div><div style="text-align: center;"> on </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">during <a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/contents/week-9-untitled/">WEEK 9</a>, Retsam Zhang and I will be exploring Global Communication!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a starter for brainstorming: </div><div style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="color: #7f6000; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are we communicating globally or are we just imaginary cosmopolitans?</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You are welcome to join the discussion by posting your comments below and share your ideas!</div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-35662497481862637522011-09-01T13:53:00.003+02:002011-09-18T14:09:20.817+02:00Creativity & Multicultural Communication<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">CMC11 </span></b>is an open online course that over 13 weeks explores the domain of Creativity and global communication in multidisciplinary venues. Participation is open to everyone and there are no fees or subscriptions required.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Register today @ <a href="http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/%20">http://www.cdlprojects.com/cmc11blog/ </a>!!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Course outline:</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 1</b>: Orientation</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 2:</b> Connectivism with Stephen Downes</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 3: </b>PLE with George Siemens</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 4:</b> Transliteracy and Metaliteracy: Emerging Literacy Frameworks for Social Media with Tom Mackey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 5: </b>Synthesizing and Refining Creativity with Alicia Arnold<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 6: </b>Upshifting Innovation with Russell Schoen<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 7: </b>Creativity and Innovation with CPS with Gregg Fraley<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 8:</b> Designing Online Immersive Environments for Higher Education with Glen Gatin<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 9: </b>Global Communication with Retsam Zhang and Silvia Purpuri<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 10: </b>Creative Communication with Jim Groom<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 11: </b>Creativity and TIM in education with Susan Keller-Mathers<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 12: </b>Global Project ~ HP Catalyst with Jim Vanides</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Week 13: </b>Diversity and Inclusiveness with MHammoud<b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Enjoy!! </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-42038954898002244142011-06-12T13:08:00.000+02:002011-06-12T13:08:56.480+02:00Virtual ESC rocks!<div style="text-align: justify;">What a great idea to create an affinity group and meet up in SL! And the Empire State College Island is just the perfect place to do it! Guided by Eileen aka Eilock Clavenham, we are exploring SL and its potentials. We explore, have fun and learn. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everything started one night (GMT+1 time) in early September with an Elluminate meeting where we all met up, then we had a walking tour on the island and a short time later a treasure hunt that was real fun!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's a slideshare Eileen has created with a list of the winners (I'm in there too!)</div><br />
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<div style="padding: 5px 0pt 12px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/eoconnor">Eileen O'Connor</a> </div></div><br />
A SL Basic Usage Meeting followed the treasure hunt and here is a short video Eileen prepared just after the meeting:<br />
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It is a great opportunity to learn and I am looking forward to the next meeting, where we will be guided through a SL basic-building and creating-meeting materials gathering!<br />
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Will keep you posted! <br />
<b></b>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-25448450010655392932011-04-30T20:40:00.000+02:002011-04-30T20:40:32.151+02:00Presenting for the 6th CDL Annual Conference - SUNY Empire State College.Presenting for a conference in Second Life can be real fun! As part of Carol Yeager's presentation "Creativity and Integrated Technology for Lifelong Learning", I was able to present a short piece about my experience as a Teaching Assistant at SUNY Empire State College. During Carol's live f2f presentation, our avatars Couki Clary (Carol) and Sunflower Lionheart (myself) met at Conviviality Corners, Telmea Story (Glen Gatin)'s place in Second Life. The videocast I had previously prepared was embedded in an interactive whiteboard and the trick was done!<br />
I would like to thank Carol Yeager for giving me the possibility to attend the conference even if I could not be in Saratoga Springs today and a special thank you goes to Glen Gatin for his hospitality at Conviviality Corners.<br />
Here is the videocast with my piece titled "My Language Nights":<br />
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Here's the recording of part of the presentation in Second Life:<br />
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And here are a couple of pictures I took before, during and after the presentation with my friend Carol! <br />
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The horse might of course be thirsty and not willing to lower his head to drink, but there is a chance it is not thirsty at all.<br />This being said, one thing we deduce from this short passage, is that motivation is a prerequisite to learning.<br />One can be intrinsically or extrinsically motivated.<br />It is very important for students and people in general to have intrinsic motivation, the ‘motivation to engage in an activity for its own sake’ (Pintrich and Schunk: 2002: 245). Something inside you wants you to do something and pushes you to do it. There is an urge and a passion which keeps you going against all odds.<br />I firmly believe intrinsic motivation is the strongest of the two. This kind of motivation becomes a part of you in a way, and it makes you learn for the pleasure of learning. If a student is intrinsically motivated, his possibilities of succeeding in what he's doing will definitely increase.<br />As to extrinsic motivation, according to E.M.Forster, "as long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously; if another ladder to employment was contrieved, much so called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider".<br />Would there be a decrease in motivation if students didn't have to learn in order to get something concrete (certificate, job, money....)? There probalby would, if the students are not engaged in what they are doing.<br />And here comes my next question: how can teachers engage and motivate their students?<br />Well, I guess a teacher should be motivated in the first place in order to motivate his/her students. There would be a lot to say about how teachers can motivate their students, and a lot has already been said.<br />Sugata Mitra said "if people have interest, learning happens" (see post - Sept 8th)<br />An engaging activity to set the grouds of a reasonably motivating lesson, could be the following game. It is called The Death of "I can't" (Raffini, J.,150 Ways to Increase Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom) and I sometimes play it in my classes. Let me guide you through these three simple steps!<br />1. Write "I can't" on the whiteboard. Then ask your students to take a piece of paper and write down all the things that they can't do, starting every sentence with “I can't”. Give them a couple of minutes to complete the task (e.g. I can't speak English, I can't concentrate on the lessons, I can't remember new words, etc.)<br />2. When they're done, ask them to put their lists in a small box on your desk. Close the box and tape it shut.<br />3. Move your group to a remote area of the school property where you previously dug a small hole. Place the box in the hole and then read the following:<br />"Ladies and Gentleman, we are gathered here this morning to bid a farewell to a dear friend, someone whom we have grown to love and trust over the years, whose companionship we will miss dearly. It is with great sadness that we bid this farewell, for our lives will never be the same again. Yet, as sure as night follows days, our lives must go on and we must learn to live without our dear friend. Goodbye, "I can't."<br />In the future, should a student say “I can't” again, just remind them that “he's not with us anymore”!<br /></div><br /><br /></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-52093388362565343142010-10-07T22:12:00.002+02:002010-10-11T21:30:44.828+02:00ESL TLE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/TLNjoUejTYI/AAAAAAAAADo/xJn0uQv1FZU/s1600/TLE_logo.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/TLNjoUejTYI/AAAAAAAAADo/xJn0uQv1FZU/s320/TLE_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526870712056499586" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A new wonderful experience has recently begun! Co-facilitating (along with Sam, Katrina, Rima and Mayssa) an ESL online course with a group of people from all around the world is just great! I am sure this will be - and is already being - a wonderful shared opportunity! Sam has been a great guide in setting up the course with all possible tools. He also created the logo you are seeing on the left-hand side of the page. The group is really nice and motivated. I just love being a part of it! Sharing our thoughts via syncronous and asyncronous tools is central to a good result. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Moodle </span>is giving us the opportunity to share content and thoughts. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Skype </span>has been really handy for our live sessions up to now, even if we intend to explore other tools with the group. And it is a handy chatbox to share our flux of thoughts, just as it comes! A <span style="font-weight: bold;">protopage </span>is helping us keep all the content together and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">typewith.me</span> documents are really making the difference! It is amazing to see how a valuable learning experience can be easily built with professional enthousiastic people who care and a bunch of open source tools! Thanks Sam, Katrina, Mayssa, Rima and the whole team!<br /></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-61112321637806740712010-09-15T13:18:00.005+02:002010-09-15T13:34:52.892+02:00Every good thing must come to an end.<div style="text-align: justify;">Now that my workshop Moodle for Teachers - Advanced is about to end, I feel very sad. I had the chance to meet marvellous people and follow a path that has given me a lot of personal satisfaction. I have learnt and learnt and learnt, or better learnt, unlearnt and relearnt all through the course. This has been an extremely positive experiece. Thank you Nellie, Ludmila and Glen for opening a brand new world to my eyes and thank you Carol, Katrina, Sam, Magda, Richard, Jeanine and Roger for being there with me. In 4 days we will have our last live session, we'll say goodbye to each other and all this will be over...brings back memories....<br />So, let's go through those memories now and make the point of what happened!<br /><br />Just before the beginning of the workshop (workshop preparation), we have been invited to set up our own blogs and start sharing our thoughts there. I had set up my own blog some time before but never had the chance to use it, so I immediatly loved the idea! The first thing we had to do was to put down our own SoP (Statement of Purpose). It was great reflecting and looking for information and finally seeing a personal post appear in the blog!<br /><br />Week 1 was about reflecting and writing about 21st Century Education and VLE (Virtual Language Environments) and creating our Team Business Card with our partner! Carol, my partner, is a marvellous person, full of ideas and creativity! She has a lot of experience and is very nice and outgoing! We had good laughs together and I have learnt a lot from her!!<br />I have to say that all my mates have been very helpful throughout the course. I had skipped the Intermediate Course and I got a lot of suggestions on what I should have had a look at on my own while taking the course!<br /><br />Week 2 was rather intensive, me, Carol and Magda having to prepare to facilitate that Sunday's live session! Magda, Carol and I enjoyed collaborating syncronously and asyncronously using a thread in Google Doc, live conversations with skype and WiZiQ and loads of Web 2.0 tools. And thank you Ludmila for all your help! During the second week, we also had to set up a WebQuest in our personal sandboxes.<br /><br />“Beyond Moodle” we went, as Week 3 arrived: connecting Moodle to mobile or virtual learning environments! And we discovered some of the great potentials Second Life has. Glen was guiding us throughout the week, and it was thanks to him that I discovered some of its tools! One of the assignments of the week, was to write a book review. Carol and I reviewed <span style="font-style: italic;">Using Moodle</span>, 2nd edition, by Jason Cole and Helen Foster, and we thought it would have been a great idea to present it in SL! With Telmea Story (Glen)'s help, Couky Clary (Carol) and me (Sunflower Lionheart), built two prims, made 2 whiteboards out of them, and embedded the google doc presentation in one and an xtranormal video in the other one. Then we prepared 3 notecards to distribute and got ready to present on that Sunday's live session. Great fun! On that Sunday, Sam showed us how he was able to connect his Moodle course with SL by Sloodle. It was extraordinary, Sam is really talented and he was invited to share his experience at the IT4ALL talk the following week. Well done Sam!<br /><br />We're in week 4 now, and we have to finish our Professional Development Project course design. My PDP is about Moodle and Web 2.0 Tools for Foreign Language Teachers. I made an example with an hypothetical lesson 5 (content: modal verbs) of an Intermediate English Course. I am looking forward to seeing my mates' projects as I am sure I will have a lot to learn from them, again!<br /><br />M4T-Advanced has been rather intensive and it has given me unique learning opportunities. I could develop skills on Web 2.0 tools, instructional design, SL and I could broaden my views on a lot of subjects!<br /><br />Here's a thank you to all my facilitators and mates. 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You will love this talk by Sir Ken Robinson!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;">If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.<br /><br />Intelligence is diverse, dynamic and distinct.<br /><br />Creativity is about original ideas that have value<br /></div><br /><br /><object style="background-image: url("http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/iG9CE55wbtY/hqdefault.jpg");" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iG9CE55wbtY?fs=1&hl=it_IT"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iG9CE55wbtY?fs=1&hl=it_IT" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-13838473832900686242010-09-08T21:27:00.003+02:002010-09-08T21:31:56.909+02:00Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education<div style="text-align: justify;">I just had the chance to watch this very interesting video by Sugata Mitra on truly child driven education.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emerging phenomenon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Every teacher that could be replaced by a computer, should be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If people have interest, learning happens.</span><br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><!--copy and paste--><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SugataMitra_2010G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SugataMitra-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=949&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=rethinking_poverty;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SugataMitra_2010G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SugataMitra-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=949&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=rethinking_poverty;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TEDGlobal+2010;"></embed></object>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-55152822931633338442010-09-07T21:51:00.012+02:002010-09-07T22:17:17.932+02:00"Using Moodle" Book Review - pictures and a video from SL<span style="font-weight: bold;">Just got back from Conviviality Corner's Sandbox, where I enjoyed taking a couple of pictures of the two whiteboards Carol and I used to present our book review!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/TIaZD_FKaMI/AAAAAAAAADg/7OXi7i9YEMY/s1600/Snapshot_013.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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margin: 3px;"><a href="http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/sunflowerefl-508124-using-moodle-2e-review-purpuri-yeager/" target="_blank" style="">Using_Moodle_2e_Review_Purpuri_Yeager</a></h3><object id="player" width="425" height="354"><param name="movie" value="http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=508124_634194381890085000"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=508124_634194381890085000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="354"></embed></object><div style="font: 11px arial;">See more <a href="http://www.authorstream.com/" target="_blank">presentations</a> by <a href="http://www.authorstream.com/User-Presentations/sunflowerefl/" target="_blank">sunflowerefl</a> | <a href="http://upload.authorstream.com/multipleupload/" target="_blank">Upload your own PowerPoint presentations</a></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And here you can watch the video from slide 6</span>:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.xtranormal.com/site_media/players/jwplayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="flashvars" value="height=390&width=480&file=http://newvideos.xtranormal.com/web_final_lo/3b4e859e-b601-11df-a220-003048d6740d_10_web_final_lo_web_finallo-flv.flv&image=http://newvideos.xtranormal.com/web_final_lo/3b4e859e-b601-11df-a220-003048d6740d_10_web_final_lo_poster.jpg&link=http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7047931&searchbar=false&autostart=false"><embed src="http://www.xtranormal.com/site_media/players/jwplayer.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=390&width=480&file=http://newvideos.xtranormal.com/web_final_lo/3b4e859e-b601-11df-a220-003048d6740d_10_web_final_lo_web_finallo-flv.flv&image=http://newvideos.xtranormal.com/web_final_lo/3b4e859e-b601-11df-a220-003048d6740d_10_web_final_lo_poster.jpg&link=http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7047931&searchbar=false&autostart=false" width="480" height="390"></embed></object><br /><object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.xtranormal.com/site_media/players/embedded-xnl-stats.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.xtranormal.com/site_media/players/embedded-xnl-stats.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" width="1" height="1"></embed></object><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Last Sunday Carol and I had the chance and honor to present our book review on SL. We built two prims that we transformed into whiteboards and we embedded the google doc with the slides into the first whiteboard and the xtranormal video into the second one. When Telmea Story (Glen) gave us the chance to present, it was great to experiment how effective a lesson in SL could be. We zoomed into the tools and advanced the slides and everyone could follow. A real life situations was being recreated as we were talking and it was a phantastic experience! We could also distribute 3 notecards to each participants with some info on our work. Just lovely! I'll have to check if someone has recorded the session, I'd love to post it here! More news to come :)!!!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-19069901757796286282010-09-05T21:21:00.002+02:002010-09-05T21:24:21.358+02:00Wallwisher with Jing and ScreentoasterThis is a tutorial I made using Jing and Screentoaster on how to use Wallwisher. Hope you enjoy it!<br /><object id='stUE5WR0NORFtXQ1tVWVJYX1BW' width='425' height='344' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://www.screentoaster.com/swf/STPlayer.swf' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0'><param name='movie' value='http://www.screentoaster.com/swf/STPlayer.swf'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'/><param name='flashvars' value='video=stUE5WR0NORFtXQ1tVWVJYX1BW'/></object><div style='width: 425px; text-align: right;'><a href='http://www.screentoaster.com/'>Capture your screen in seconds</a></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-9899354426505640342010-08-30T22:26:00.013+02:002010-08-30T22:41:25.970+02:00First steps in SL<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwU7JaIlwI/AAAAAAAAACQ/x--JABjMn_w/s1600/Snapshot_002.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwU7JaIlwI/AAAAAAAAACQ/x--JABjMn_w/s320/Snapshot_002.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511303050365015810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwUwev-gxI/AAAAAAAAACI/4m7mbgA38dY/s1600/Snapshot_001.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwUwev-gxI/AAAAAAAAACI/4m7mbgA38dY/s320/Snapshot_001.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511302867115213586" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwWF9y1OII/AAAAAAAAACY/jn5WPRJURmM/s1600/Snapshot_003.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwWF9y1OII/AAAAAAAAACY/jn5WPRJURmM/s320/Snapshot_003.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511304335737567362" border="0" /></a><br />Last night I met some of my mates from M4T-Advanced and our facilitator Glen at Conviviality <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwWOtVCyvI/AAAAAAAAACg/5HcEIGBfjAw/s1600/Snapshot_004.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THwWOtVCyvI/AAAAAAAAACg/5HcEIGBfjAw/s320/Snapshot_004.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511304485936483058" border="0" /></a>Corner in SL!<br /><br /><br /><br />We had fun and tried some of the tools out! Here are a couple of pictures I took there!Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-71731247835351720482010-08-30T13:15:00.010+02:002010-08-30T21:35:45.029+02:00Moodle Course Design. Constructivist Platform of Moodle<div style="text-align: justify;">Co facilitating this live session on WiZiQ has been a very nice experience. I want to thank IT4ALL for giving me this opportunity and my friends Carol and Magda for preparing this with me!<br />Enjoy the slides!</div><br /><div style="width: 481px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/86321-M4T-Advanced-2-Week-2" target="_blank">M4T-Advanced-2 Week 2</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="player" align="middle" width="481" height="402"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.wiziq.com/player.swf?u=http://m.wqimg.com&p=86321_634186714844611250.xml&n=wiziq&s=1&q=6oAY0ydv8eeuhSFnefFkR1lSB4da20F3XVVwkr9S87ZdKDEuvtLEtlO1qDPqGpFl%252bO3lFM33l6w8lum1h%252bBnH7UoinoWMwtH"><embed src="http://www.wiziq.com/player.swf?u=http://m.wqimg.com&p=86321_634186714844611250.xml&n=wiziq&s=1&q=6oAY0ydv8eeuhSFnefFkR1lSB4da20F3XVVwkr9S87ZdKDEuvtLEtlO1qDPqGpFl%252bO3lFM33l6w8lum1h%252bBnH7UoinoWMwtH" name="player" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" width="450" height="395"></embed></object></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Uploaded by <a href="http://www.wiziq.com/IT4ALL" target="_blank">Integrating</a> on <a href="http://www.wiziq.com/content/" target="_blank">WiZiQ Tutorials</a></p></div><br /><br />Or you can watch the recording <a href="http://www.wiziq.com/class/info.aspx?5mA7G8fKaxkS3fNRCKMX2ZpKZodBLP8I%2flIQG%2bpOyDbyhnWfdVo%2brWmJbWZNxfyGHSDLCpLxnO8%3d">here</a>.Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-45183344707478888632010-08-27T14:50:00.001+02:002010-08-27T14:54:53.324+02:00Why Moodle?<div style="text-align: justify;">Teaching cannot be done without technology anymore. Given that education should be about personal change, it is important to know where we are, where we hope to go and how we should change in order to fit the new contexts. We have to consciously take part in the process of education. The value of education depends on this.<br /><br />There are many LMSs. Why Moodle, then?<br /><br />All I can say for now - as I am not at all an expert on Learning Management Systems, but just a learner who is doing her best to learn - is that Moodle allows designers to create a learning environment based on constructivist views. Moodle makes learning possible as a process of learning by doing. It doesn't provide us with mere theory, but also with practice. It has a system that allows us to learn. Its lessons and exercises are made for learning, not for punishing, they can be repeated as many times as we want and at our own pace.<br /><br />Learning should be based around our student's questions. The students should work together to solve problems rather than receiving direct instructions on what to do from their teachers. The teacher's job isn't only to provide knowledge, but to help students along the process of discovering knowledge themselves. This is called inquiry learning. It's a kind of learning where the teachers are not vessels of knowledge, but they should be seen as facilitators of learning. And this is the kind of learning/teaching I want to stick to!<br /></div>Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470790366531141453.post-77473729292788309792010-08-24T14:22:00.007+02:002010-08-24T14:31:24.681+02:00Buddy Team's Card<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THO619hEE1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/pL4esfdKmw8/s1600/logo+moodle+with+C%26S.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 243px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THO619hEE1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/pL4esfdKmw8/s320/logo+moodle+with+C%26S.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508952205413323602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THO6pyKgqwI/AAAAAAAAABw/3vf0E2Di9Dk/s1600/Bus+Cd+IT4All.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uyPYBLv0WOA/THO6pyKgqwI/AAAAAAAAABw/3vf0E2Di9Dk/s320/Bus+Cd+IT4All.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508951996207508226" border="0" /></a>As part of my advanced M4T course, I had to choose a partner and design a card to introduce ourselves.<br />Carol, my mate, is very skilled in graphic design!<br />Here's what came out! Enjoy!Sunflower EFLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500874121683587530noreply@blogger.com0