Reflections on Widen your classroom with blogs

The fours week blogging course has come to an end, and it’s time to reflect. It has been an intensive four weeks and I’ve met a lot of friendly and very motivated people. They have overcome problems and persevered to create their own space in the internet. It is easy  to forget how daunting that can. [...]

The meme game

I’ve been tagged! So here I am taking part in the meme game, which is a great way to get to know about people and have a little bit of fun on the blog. Here are the rules: How to play the meme game: Basically, the idea is for each blogger who accepts the invitation [...]

My many blogs

At the moment I’m giving an online course on blogging and have been so busy reading and commenting n other blogs that I haven’t found time to write on my own blog. Yesterday as part of the course we held a WiziQ session and invited a guest to talk about her blogging experiences. Karenne, the [...]

Following comments

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Write to be read. This is why we write blogs. But how do we know if we are being read? Well, you can go to your statistics page if your blog has one (WordPress does ), or [...]

My experience of on-line courses and on-line learning.

I have been a firm believer that it is necessary to know about technology and how it can enhance learning, especially as a freelance teacher. Now, though I am no longer freelance, I still feel the same way as I teach young learners. I read books and made my own ponderings about how I could [...]

Blogging the world

Sometimes things just seem to come together. At the moment I’ve got two projects going. I was contacted by a teacher over in California with a request for collaboration. Now I have my 5th graders writing in English to other 5th graders in the States. This is exactly how I imagine my kids learning English [...]