Dear All,

This was an exciting Sunday morning for me and many other webheads around the world. After our usual meeting at Tapped In, we headed to WorldBridges, which is becoming a routine every Sunday, too. But this time, Jeff and Dave had a great surprise for all of us, a live webcast with Stephen Downes and Will Richardson. I first heard of Stephen Downes back in 2002 while attending the Networking 2002 conference in Australia where some Webheads presented with Michael Coghlan about Croscultural communication (Btw, the icon I use on this blog won me a prize at this conference, a nice book on graphic organizers which was sent to me to Spain where I lived in those times). Stephen was the reporter of the event in his "Networking daily  overview". Since that time I have followed his wise comments about technology on his web page where he keeps a record of his talks, articles, links, etc.

I learned about Will Richardson for the first time, at the EVOnline session on Blogging in Jan. 2005 moderated by Aaron Campbell, Barbara Dieu and Graham Stanley. They had several guest speaker talk about setting blogs and how to use them in education. One of these guests was Will Richardson who gave at talk at Learning Times on RSS: Rss: The New Killer Appl for Educators. If you want to learn about RSS do not miss this talk (you need to be a member of LT to access the recording of the session - free membership).

Well, today we had the opportunity to listen to an enlightening interview with them, while chatting with other colleagues at WorldBridges:

Do not miss the recording which will be available very soon.

Daf

Dear all,

It's been a while since my last entry due to the summer holiday. Here I am again, this time I am devoting this post to a course I have been kindly invited to attend by its moderator, Vance Stevens. The course deals with "Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments". We are pretty familiar with what collaborative learning environments are, but... MULTILITERACIES...Hmmm, what is that?

Well, that's what we are supposed to get to in the second cycle of the course (in the first cycle we introduced ourselves and interacted informally with the rest of the participants in Moodle ).

After reading the different enlightening works done by other participants, I decided to take a look at what goes on inside my classrooms, and I created this Web page

I would appreciate your comments.

hugs,

Daf

Barbara Chap, one of the guest tutors in my English for Architecture and Urban Planning courses, has just sent this message that I would like to share:

Dear Daf and her classes,

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to present the Eiserner Steg.  I never would have put together a photo story without you:  I usually need a reason to do something creative.  I had a lot of fun, and I hope you can use it again and again. (......)  Of course, all the old pictures are not mine.  But starting the segment 2005, they are all mine.

One of the students asked for the names of the bridges I mentioned in the presentation.  They are, of course, Eiserner Steg (The Iron Footbridge), Alte Bruecke (The Old Bridge – when exactly folks began calling it the “old” bridge I don’t know), Neue Floessebruecke (The New Rafting Bridge – earlier people came on rafts and launched their rafts from there), Obermainbruecke and Untermainbruecke (Over Main Bridge and Under Main Bridge – indicating their positions in relationship to Alte Bruecke).  Unfortunately, there is not a lot on the internet – even about Eiserner Steg – about any of Frankfurt’s bridges.  What is there of substance is in German.  A lot of my material came from books we have around the house about the city.

Weren’t all the presentations interesting?  It was also interesting that each one of us took a somewhat different approach.  By the way, on our way home from Chrissan’s we stopped by Sus Nyrop’s house and had a nice snack and some beer from her home island.  I’ve attached pictures.  It was really great to get together with them.  My husband asked how I knew I would get along with them (that means constant chatter) . . . but he’s only just beginning to “get it” about women and especially about Webheads.

Take care.  Please send any questions your students might have.

Hugs,   Barb

PS.  Sweden and Denmark are full of all kinds of bridges.  If I get to it, I’ll send a little, I mean really little, photo story of them…including some nice pictures of Sus’ bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark.

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I created a page for all the guest tutors we had in our courses: http://dafnegonzalez.com/id3125-05/content/guests.html

Daf

Dafne, 2005