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Dafne #2503 (Response to #2497) 02/17/2008	Dear All, We are starting Week 6, the last week of what has beena fantastic journey. How has it gone by so fast? Well,the wonderful empathy, warmth, openness, experience and knowledge sharing... has been so intense that it seems like we started last week. Week 6: Blended learning. Wrap-up: Conclusions andevaluation. Graduating as a Webhead in ActionIn Week 6, we will focus on "blended learning". Join Aiden Yeh, and Rita Zeinstejer Mon. Feb 19 at 13:00 GMT, at Alado for a discussion on "blended learning": combining online activities and projects with face-to-face learning Please add your name in the Database to tell us that you are attending this session. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/baw08/database The suggested readings for this week are related toour topic, and can be discussed in our forum at: http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/baw08.html Since this is the last week of our e-workshop, we would appreciate your reflections on your overall impressions of this 6-week workshop, what you've achieved, and what you plan to do with your newly-acquired know-how. Post your reflections to our BaW-08 wiki: http://baw08participants.pbwiki.com/Reflections During the week we will get ready for the graduation ceremony to take place at Worldbridges (http://webheadsinaction.org ). Time to be announced. It is also time to complete an evaluation of thesession for the EVO coordination team which will helpto plan for the 2009 EVO sessions. The link will besent during the week. We would like to remind you that our YG, wiki, blog, forum, etc. will remain available, and the discussion can go on :-) This is all for now. Have a great week and... keep in touch! Daf & Teresa
Marie Raye #2516 02/17/2008	sorry about this, after keeping up with all the communications but very little action, wanted to reflect, but wiki asks for password. i must have lost something somewhere. anyway, thank you for everything. this was my second time and i moved a bit further than the last time. unfortunately i'm a person who needs to have the info and understanding before attempting the hands-on. i have started a pbwiki for one of my courses, but still experimenting and shy to share yet. maybe later. thanks again and great job to all of you.
Dafne #2517 (Response to #2516) 02/17/2008	Hi Marie, The password for the wiki is: bawpart Don´t worry, everyone goes at his/her own pace. What's important is not giving up :-) Btw, there's a mistake in my welcome message about the day for the live session. It is on Tuesday not Monday as I wrote. Cheers, Daf
Melanie Ellis #2596 02/19/2008	Hello, This is an irritating question and I'm sorry I need to ask. Is there any chance of getting a letter from someone to say that I took part in this session? I need something like this for my professional development folder, as I have to be able to document that I have taken part in professional educational development. (This is a requirement for the Polish Minstry of Education, for teachers) Bureaucracy is such that simply presenting a blog etc. is not enough. ("Ours not to reason why..") I feel very bad asking as I haven't managed to finish all the assignments, but very much want to, slowly, when I have a bit more time. I managed weeks 3 and 4 better as we had a break between semesters then, but now it's a new semester and I'm struggling with deadlines and lots of marking... Best wishes Melanie Ellis
Natalia Malkina #2597 (Response to #2596) 02/19/2008	Hello, I join in with Melanie's request. In Russia we have the same reqirements for teachers. I would be very grateful if I could get a certificate of attendance. This will be very helfil to me in my work situation. I am lagging behind Because many things are new for me and I have to get a more closer look at somethings. But I am planning to finish the assignments step by step later on. I am currently doing Hot Potatoes exercises for My Students in Cultural Studies class Thanks, Natalia
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2599 02/19/2008	Hi, Melanie and Natalia! As you know, these EVO workshops aren't credited courses, so there isn't any official certificate. However, we do upload a certificate of participation during the Graduation session and that's the only thing that Daf and I have used over the years on a couple of situations like yours. Hugs, Teresa

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Reminders

Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2661 02/21/2008	Dear friends, This is just to remind you that you can leave comments on any of the Week 6 readings at http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/baw08.html. and your reflections about these 6 weeks at http://baw08participants.pbwiki.com/Reflections You can always add links to your creations at http://baw-08.pbwiki.com/UsesofTools Last, but not least, do not forget our Graduation Ceremony and Party next Sunday, Feb 24, at Worldbridges at 16:00 GMT with Jeff Lebow as our host. http://webheadsinaction.org If you have any Graduation gifts or food and drinks, please send them along and I will include them in our Graduation page. It's been a great workshop and you've all been great participants and moderators. But this is just the final lap of a new beginning, a new life.... life after BaW08. It will never be the same whether professionally or personally. :-) Hugs all, Teresa
Dafne #2662 (Response to #2661) 02/21/2008	Another short reminder, the evaluation survey ;-) http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KAUrq9gekRwWBd6Ns5OaYA_3d_3d only 16 participants have completed it. hugs, Daf
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2665 (Response to #2662) 02/21/2008	Daf, Thanks for coming to the rescue. I knew I was missing something, but couldn't find the link. Hugs, Teresa

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Graduation ceremony

Dafne #2625 (Response to #2624) 02/20/2008	Dear all, After 6 weeks of intensive fun learning, you are nowready to become a Webhead :-) So, it is time to start planning for the big celebration: our Becoming aWebhead class of 2008 Graduation Ceremony. Yessss! You are cordially invited to attend your GC on Sunday, Feb 24, at 16:00 GMT in the chatroom at http://webheadsinaction.org Our host will be Jeff Lebow, and you will have the opportunity to talk through skype :-) This is a party, so you need to dress up, and be ready to share delicious food and drinks from your country. Send us photos and recipies, we will post them to our graduation ceremony page that Tere is creating for such an important event. Looking forward to hearing from you, Daf
Moira Hunter #2629 02/20/2008	Hi all, I'd like to offer a Graduation Gift in advance before all the delicious food arrives and this is in particular for our Excel Queen (aka Tere). Blist is a lovely looking modern spreadsheet and you can do wonders with it and very quickly. I've been setting up different ones for my learners and it really is intuitive. Uploading of images is great and you just move your mouse over it in the speadsheet and the whole image appears. It's in beta and other features are coming but it already rocks for me :-)) Have a look at the video and get a blist :-) http://blog.blist.com/index.php/2008/01/30/blist-demo-08-launch-video/ Moira :-)))
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2633 02/20/2008	Dear Moira, Thank you for such a wonderful Graduation Gift! The "Excel Queen (aka Tere)" marvelled at the blist presentation. What a tool! And what great features! :-) Maybe you could share with us some of the ways you've been using it with students so we can include it in our "Applications of Tools" wiki page. (((Hugs))) Teresa
Moira Hunter #2724 02/22/2008	Hi Teresa, So far, I have been using Blist to gather in one place all the things I need for the many learners I have. So this includes normal 'Excel' type things such as attendance, marks of different types and coefficients for university students with comments etc.. I'm also adding the blogs, wikis, pages etc created collaboratively and individually and uploading documents such as assignments and corrected homework and tracking the individual learners (i.e. completed, to do, etc). Sub lists or lenses can be created and visuals such as pie charts or histograms of the input I add are just a question of a click and hey presto. The visual aspect (pictures, icons and colours) is really appealing to me rather than a dry flat Excel sheet. An individual record of each student with all information is just a matter of a click too. All of this can be shared with individuals or groups by invitation email but at the moment, they can only read and cannot contribute to it. This will be a feature in the near future. There are also features such as 'Review' and 'Discussion' coming soon too. My university learners are using this to collect all their own research and data for reports and projects to be done within their field of study with specific objectives and deadlines. They started recently and today went on holiday for two weeks, so time will tell how they exploit this tool to the full in May/June. I have seen that you can make widgets of some of the data and embed it in your blog or site but I haven't got that far yet :-) I'm also starting to use this right now to gather personal development information together. Let's see if I'm disciplined enough to do it for myself :-) Hugs Moira
Sharon Betts #2740 02/23/2008	Blist is great - thank you so much for sending the link. What a nice way to collect resources for a project. Sharon
Carina Llosa #2647 (Response to #2633) 02/20/2008	Hi I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend the graduation! I’ll be on vacation from Saturday. I’ll go to the north of my country (Argentina). This place is quite off the beaten track, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to find an internet connection. It’s a pity, because even though I haven’t written many emails, I’ve learned a lot through the readings and the weekly activities. Hugs Carina
Maru #2683 02/21/2008	Hi Everyone! I am glad you sent your graduation present in advance Moira, cool tool! I won't make it to the graduation ceremony :-( I will go to San Luis tomorrow for the Baptism of my nephiew, he is the only grandchild my parents have. I will be back online next Monday. I will be thinking about you all on Sunday, have fun! Please record the party, I'd love to see it! Besos. Maru
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2688 02/21/2008	Dear all, Here is my graduation gift for you all: http://singidunum.pbwiki.com/FrontPage I hope it gives you some idea about my city and my country.Thank you for everything. I have enjoyed every moment here at BaW andI have met so many lovely people. Of course, this isn't the end, it is the beginning. I am looking forward to Sunday. Hugs, Natasa
Maru #2700 02/21/2008	Dear Natasa: Thanks for your gift! It is a beautiful place indeed, I guess the video suggested by your husband is for guys, I was actually expecting to hear bells form a famous clock! =) You have done a wonderful job on your wiki! Love: Maru
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2704 (Response to #2700) 02/22/2008	Thank you for the present, Natasa! It's lovely! I've enjoyed every part of it. P.S.: Tell your husband that my hometown, Rosario, is famous for the same thing. Hugs, Mary
Vance Stevens #2708 (Response to #2704) 02/22/2008	Hmmm, I see nothing at http://singidunum.pbwiki.com/FrontPage, tryingin both Mozilla and IE, and with my VPN both in and out. I mean I see the wiki, but no pics :-( what am I doing wrong ? ;-) Speaking of gifts, Ibrahim in Tajikistan has created one especially for this group. He's been in touch with me about it, and mentioned that he has connectivity problems (actually power outages) that sometimes prevent him from contacting this group. I haven't see that his message has appeared, so I agreed in that case to post for him. Ibrahim has made a very nice badge for all the folks here, which you are all highly qualified to post on your blogs and wikis. I put the full sized picture here: http://www.webheads.info and http://webheads.info These redirect to two different places, actually, so if you can't get one (because you are behind a country wide proxy firewall, for example) then try the other. At the moment the above page has the full sized graphic but the links on that page point here: http://www.ibrahimrustamov.com/baw08/ This is the badge sized graphic with the code for putting it on yourblog or web page. Ibrahim was concerned that this site is sometimes unreliable, so I agreed to host it in one of the webheads areas. When that happens it will still be available at the links above. Meanwhile get it from Ibrahim's site. Looking forward to seeing you at the graduation. Remind me, when is it exactly? Vance
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2709 (Response to #2708) 02/22/2008	Vance, There are links in the sidebar menu (Belgrade, Belgrade Belles...). I hope they work. If not, let me know. Natasa
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2710 (Response to #2709) 02/22/2008	Dear Mary, I am sure it is. I was in two minds about that video anyway, since women outnumber men in BaW (or at least that's my impression). I didn't have much time, so I just resorted to good old YouTube for solutions. Anyway, I am proud that I can now do things with wikis that I never thought I would be able to do. Thanks for watching it. Hugs Natasa
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2711 (Response to #2710) 02/22/2008	Dear Mary, Thank you. Love, Natasa
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2712 (Response to #2711) 02/22/2008	Hi, Vance! Graduation is Sunday, Feb 24, at Worldbridges at 16:00 GMT. Hope to see you there! Hugs, Teresa
Silvia Colombo #2723 (Response to #2722) 02/22/2008	Hi Vance! I believe the URL to Natasa's link is without the comma like this http://singidunum.pbwiki.com/FrontPage Then you scroll down to show all pages and there they are. Hope it helps. Silvia from Argentina.
Nina Liakos #2721 02/22/2008	What a beautiful gift, Natasa! I absolutely love this kind of music from Serbia, Bulgaria, etc. I haven't looked at the slideshows yetbut I have bookmarked the site in my "Webheads' Pages, Sites, Blogs"in my bookmarks.com. Congratulations on becoming a webhead! Hugs, Nina
Silvia Colombo #2722 (Response to #2721) 02/22/2008	Hi Natasa! I've enjoyed your graduation gift a lot! Belgrade must be a beautiful city with a lot of historical places to visit. The music was great! and I imagine your national dishes must taste delicious! I also found your holiday photos brilliant! You've done an excellent job Natasa! Cheers, Silvia from Argentina.
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2729 02/22/2008	Thank you Nina and Sylvia. I would love to see pictures from other countries and maybe exchange a few recipes (although I am not much of a cook myself). Love Natasa
Susana Canelo #2732 (Response to #2729) 02/22/2008	Dear all: I've been a bit absent but you've done a great task !!! Of course you deserve a fantastic graduation party. At the moment I'm taking part of a f 2 f congress in BsAs. I'll be with Gladys Baya tomorrow and I'm sure all you Webheads are going to be part of her (great,I'm sure) presentation. Have a good graduation party. A big HUG from Argentina Susana
Sus Nyrop #2736 (Response to #2732) 02/22/2008	Natasa, I loved your wiki with videos from majestic looking Belgrade, with lovely ladies (well, now I feel less frivolus by sharing some common tricks with you on SL :-) And, your yummy food blog made me want to get something to eat before bedtime (well, at 2 am here in Denmark I MUST stop catching up with the Electronic Village Online!) I hope I can come for the Graduation on Sunday! yours, Sus http://www.xanga.com/susnyrop
Saša Sirk #2742 (Response to #2736) 02/23/2008	Dear Nataša, had a peek to your wiki and enjoyed the video, pics and music there. Belgrade is on my list of the places to visit in the near future. It was my capital too years ago and your wiki stirred up lots of beautiful memories from that period. I live in Nova Gorica, a small town in the western part of Slovenia, where there are also many families from Serbia. I hope we meet some day - there aren't many of us webheads in our part of the world.Thanks for sharing this. Hugs, Saša (singing 'od Vardara pa do Triglava'...) ;-)
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2751 02/23/2008	Draga Saša, You brought tears to my eyes. I feel the same about what we once had.The borders are where the heart sets them. I was in Nova Gorica when Iwas four years old. Our car broke down there while we were on our wayto Italy. A kind lady took in us as guests, while her husband repairedour car. I remember the people, but not the town. I would love to meet you face to face and in our case it isn't too hard to organise. If you decide to come to Belgrade, let me know. You are right, there aren't many webheads in this part of the world (yet). Sorry I never answered the nice welcome note you sent in the first week, but as it was not in the BaW digest and as I was completely new here at the time, I found it some two weeks later. Thanks. Love Natasa ('...od Djerdapa pa do Jadrana...')
Saša Sirk #2765 (Response to #2751) 02/24/2008	Ojla, Nataša, The borders are where the heart sets them - I love this. Many people here look back to those times with nostalgia. When you come to Slovenia next time, let me know about it. I'll definitely let you know when my Belgrade plan becomes more definite. Se vidimo, Saša:-)))) ...'Svetlim suncem obasjana ponosito sred Balkana'...
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2787 02/24/2008	Dear Saša, Many people here look back at those times with nostalgia as well. My husband and I do. I was born in 1967, my memory goes a long way back. I would like to add you to my contacts in Yahoo Messenger and Skype if you don't mind. Se vidimo Nataša (I can't hold it back any more: Jugoslavijoooo, Jugoslavijooo)
Carlos #2737 02/22/2008	Dear Dafne, As requested, I spent the whole afternoon cooking these recipes for next sunday. I uploaded the word document file in the Baw wiki, participant's gallery, files, under the name of Portuguese Recipes. Please keep them in the fridge until next sunday as they were carefully cooked and wrapped to be consumed. You'll find a full meal from starters to dessert. Don't you dare to taste them before sunday! Going to take care of my tuxedo now, as it needs to be ironed! See you on Sunday Carlos
Dafne #2738 (Response to #2737) 02/23/2008	WoW Carlos, this is a temptation, but I promise I won´t even look at it until tomorrow ;-) I hope there's some Portuguese red wine in the package :-) Thanks!!!! Daf
Carlos #2743 (Response to #2738) 02/23/2008	I'm sorry Daf, I didn't include the wine... just in case you got too tempted... (Joking!). As it is supposed to be I'll take with me tomorrow... See you tomorrow Carlos
Mônica Sanin #2739 02/23/2008	Talking about "lagging behind"... you're exchanging graduation gifts and I'm still reading the Week 4 threads! Thanks, Sharon, for the links to whiteboard activities. I'll be exploring them and see if I can get some fresh ideas. Anyway, all I've learnt with the webheads can be put into practice using a digital board. Thanks , Daf, Teresa for your guide and organization, all moderators for being there and sharing your ideas and knowledge and all participants for sharing your hands-on experiences, trials, errors and ideas to use in the classroom. See you all soon! Mňnica S. ( Argentina )
Saša Sirk #2744 02/23/2008	Ahoj Bawers, I'm not much of a cook... so be happy I'm not sending you guys food for tomorrow ;-). Instead, I'm sending you some fresh air and a waterfall splash from the Sunny side of the Alps, some strawberries from my father in law's backyard and some violets from mine, some wine from a cellar near my home and some smiling faces of kids here and there, but mostly in my hometown... Some glimpses of Slovenia through my lense. Enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/7920247@N04/sets/72157603036788662/show/ Hugs, Saša
Arlene Porath #2745 (Response to #2744) 02/23/2008	Dear Sasa, Slovenia looks absolutely beautiful !!!! I've heard it is. Thank you for the lovely photos. Arlene from Israel arleneporath@gmail.com
Carlos #2746 02/23/2008	Hello, Sasa Great photos, great gift and great country you live in! I've always felt curious about Slovenia, now I must definetely include it in my trip plans to come. Thank you for the gift Carlos
Sharon Betts #2748 (Response to #2746) 02/23/2008	Saša - these are absolutely beautiful photos. I am always so impressed at just how every corner of our world is so impressive. How I would love to be able to just start a trip and visit all of the webhead's hometowns. Wouldn't it be great? Sharon
Silvia Colombo #2753 (Response to #2748) 02/23/2008	Thank you Sasa for your beautiful flickr album! I've enjoyed your photos a lot! I could catch a glimpse of your country and hometown. A wonderful present for the graduation party! Cheers, Silvia from Argentina.
Nelba #2754 (Response to #2753) 02/23/2008	Dear Sasha. Your photo album is beautiful. Did you take all the photos? Nelba from Argentina
Nataša Bozic Grojic #2763 (Response to #2754) 02/23/2008	Dear Saša, I watched your pictures. They are beautiful... 'kao niska sjajnog djerdana'. Love Natasa
Saša Sirk #2766 (Response to #2763) 02/24/2008	Dear Arlene, Carlos, Sharon, Silvia, Nelba, Nataša, Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you liked the pics. Some have been taken by me, some by my husband. I hope to meet you guys here some day. Hope to see you at the graduation ceremony later. Hugs, Saša
Silvia Colombo #2788 02/24/2008	Dear Sasa and all It would be great meeting you one day face-to-face!!! Cheers, Silvia from Argentina.
Silvia Colombo #2755 02/23/2008	Hi everybody! Here's my modest gift for our graduation ceremony. I've uploaded some sites to my blog for you to learn about my hometown and country. I hope you can enjoy it!http://silviaepeco.multiply.com/journal/item/13/A_GIFT_FOR_OUR_GRADUATION_PARTY Hugs, Silvia from Argentina
Saša Sirk #2770 (Response to #2755) 02/24/2008	Thanks, Silvia! So many webheads from this lovely town... I'll explore those delicious recipes these days. Hugs, Saša
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2756 02/23/2008	And here's my gift from Rosario, Argentina. Hope you like it! http://imagesofrosario.wikispaces.com/ Love, Mary
Saša Sirk #2769 (Response to #2756) 02/24/2008	Dear Mary, thanks. Rosario looks very impressive. I thought it was a small town... I thought wrong obviously... There are 3 times more inhabitants than in Ljubljana, our capital. I loved the video.:-) Hugs, Saša
Marina #2757 02/23/2008	Hi Bawers, I've included a video with tourist attractions of my country. Hope you enjoy it.Oh! it's in my blog: http://newtoolsinlanguagelearning.blogspot.com/ See you tomorrow, Marina
Michael Coghlan #2761 (Response to #2757) 02/23/2008	Great video Marina. Now I want to go to Argentina! - Michael.
Saša Sirk #2768 (Response to #2761) 02/24/2008	Lovely! Been there, dropped a comment. Thanks, Marina. Hugs, Saša
Claudia #2760 (Response to #2759) 02/23/2008	Hi everybody, I added some images from my country to share with you all. You can find them at http://englishcorner.pbwiki.com/baw+graduation+gift It was great to share with this group. There are so many technological tools to work in class that sometimes I feel overwhelmed, but things are clearing up and I'll continue trying during the year.Thanks to the moderators, (you're great) and to the other 'students' for this fantastic session, I learnt a lot from all of you. Claudia
Silvia Colombo #2790 02/24/2008	Hi Claudia! Thanks for your gift! I love your country! I've been there several times. People are so friendly and the beaches are so beautiful! Hugs, Silvia from Argentina.
Sus Nyrop #2762 02/23/2008	Daf, Tere and I made a tasty collaboration project for the Tapped In carnival 2002 celebrating Webheads in Action We cooked our favorite dishesand took pictures, and made homepages, linking to each other. And, chatting a lot in between with help and advice for the process. We did not have smart Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, or wikis, or Flickr and slideshare albums by then, just plain HTML and digital photos, uploaded by FTP. More cumbersome, hard work. http://home19.inet.tele.dk/susnyrop/cooking/pancakes.html http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/ticarnival2002/cod-recipe.htm http://www.geocities.com/dygonza/paella.html For tomorrow, I'll put on my best silk dress, lipstick and perfume - younever know what will happen after a few caipirinha drinks:-) yours, Sus in Denmark http://www.worldofwebheads.blogspot.com
Saša Sirk #2767 (Response to #2762) 02/24/2008	Yummmy. I can imagine how much fun you had preparing your delicious dishes. It's amazing how quickly things have been changing in the cyberworld. Thanks, Sus. :-)) Hugs, Saša
Ocsovszky Zsóia #2771 02/24/2008	Dear Teresa, Dafne, and all of you, I am sorry but can not attend the ceremony tonight, so I would like to say MILLION and more thanks that I could be here. Thank you Teresa for invited me!! Thank you all for your support, help, and even I still have a gap, so I still have to catch up, but the world you opened for me is wonderful. I can not say enough time: THANK YOU As I have introduced to you my project created by me and two ladies, Sanja and Alfia, I would like to keep you informed about it: we already have some singed up students who created their blog and made the quest :-) we will continue this project, and as step by step exploring new tools I will add therewe created a voice thread to present our project, take a look! http://voicethread.com/share/64929/ And if you would like check our site: adventure.21classes.com Have a wonderful ceremony tonight Bye to you all, and hope to see you again hugs Zsofi
Alfia Mironova #2772 02/24/2008	Hello! I'm Alfia from Russia. I've been a lurker most of the time, but I did learn a lot . Different tools which were used by participants are familiar to me now, because I followed the discussions. I wish I had done more. But still I am glad I've been a part of this wonderful group... Here the link to my small blog as a small graduation gift. http://fromrussia-alfia.blogspot.com/ Alfia.
Sus Nyrop #2773 (Response to #2772) 02/24/2008	Hello Alfia, your Russian blinis look really good. And, don't worry about all those things you did not make this time; now you have a whole bunch of examples to dig into whenever you're read, and what is even more important, you have found virtual colleagues willing to share and to ask for help and support. Congratulations with becoming just another webhead, Sus Nyrop in Denmark http://teachingculture.wikispaces.com/
Liliana Mihalachi #2774 02/24/2008	I have posted my PowerPoint presentation of my city in the Files sections. Thank you for a wonderful experience! Liliana Mihalachi (Romania)
Mary #2777 02/24/2008	http://www.sendspace.com/file/u47umf is my graduation gift. a powerpoint of my city.
Silvia Colombo #2789 02/24/2008	Hi Mary! A beautiful video about Rosario!!! Thanks for sharing! Hugs, Silvia.
Silvia Colombo #2778 02/24/2008	Dear Daf, Teresa and all the moderators and participants, Sorry for not being able to attend the graduation party this afternoon but I have some family commitments. I wish you all the best of luck and I hope I will be able to listen to the recording later. Thank you all for being so caring and supportive. Enjoy yourselves and have a wonderful time! Hugs, Silvia from Argentina.
Sharon Betts #2779 02/24/2008	What a great party - so nice to have worked with you all. I amcertain I will meet many of you in WIA as well as other places on theweb in the next year. I want to offer a final invitation to any wishing to participate with (or without) their students to our two collaboration projects: younger students (10 - 14 years or so)http://classroombraids.wikispaces.com join wikispaces and ask to join the site - just starting a March section15+ http://tlgplace.ning.com We need some more motivated teachers and students to assist with international collaboration. Take care - stay healthy - and live in peace Sharon
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2780 02/24/2008	Dear All! I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the Graduation ceremony. I'd have liked to be there with you but there was a power cut this morning +all the family was at home for lunch so it was impossible for me to get ready in time and go somewhere else. What happens now? Please tell me we'll keep in touch here. I'll miss all this a lot! I can't wait to hear all the details of the ceremony. Hugs, Mary
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2781 02/24/2008	Dear friends, These 6 weeks were great and we all learned a lot in a collaborative way. The Graduation ceremony was very nice and I hope you've all enjoyed the Grad page. I'm now back in RL making a couple of tests. I started listening to a great music site where you're bound to find music will make you feel good. http://www.tropicalglen.com/YR-1963.html Enjoy! And I'll second Sharon abd say "Take care - stay healthy - and live in peace". Hugs, Teresa
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2795 (Response to #2781) 02/25/2008	Great music site, Teresa! Very original the possibility of browsing by year. Thanks for sharing! Love, Mary
Rita Zeinstejer #2782 02/24/2008	Hi, dear all, I am very sorry not to have joined you today for your grad party..., it was my last day in Rosario with Jane Petring, who came to visit me on Friday and stayed through the weekend, to head back for Buenos Aires a while ago. I've just come back from the bus station, where we hugged bye and until next time... We spent a fab time sharing sights, meals, friends. And we delighted in exchanging and comparing "idiomatic expressions" both in English and Spanish, since one of her aims now is attending Spanish classes here in Argentina to improve it...--and I can tell you her Spanish is GREAT!!! Besides, Jane is an incredibly versatile human being, "game" for everything and anything...;-) We´ve taken several photos, which we'll upload to Flicker and to her personal blog she'll soon share with you. I am sure you've spent a wonderful time partying together..., and here go my CONGRATS and my WELCOME message to all new members of this priceless population, hoping they find it as valuable, as illuminating, as enriching and as FUN as those who can attest so ;-) My warmest hugs, Rita
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2783 02/24/2008	Dear Rita, We missed you, but I'm glad that you were enjoying yourself in Jane's company. She is lots of fun and, as you say, as e very versatile and complete human being. Did she also make watercolor postcards of views in Rosario? She has some lovely ones of Lisbon. We had a lovely time at the virtual Graduation. There'll be a recording for sure. In the meantime, take a look at the Grad page. Hope you enjoy it! http://baw-08.pbwiki.com/graduation Beijinhos, Teresa
Natalia #2784 02/24/2008	Hello everyone ! It's a pity to say good bye. It's been a wonderful learning experience for me. Without all of you I would have never made it. So many times I felt frustrated and tired but then like a little sunray there was always someone who came to the rescue and Skyped me and said, Hi. How are you there?. Wow, I felt brave and energetic.I am terribly lucky to have been part of the group. I have made wonderful friends, learnt many new things and English words! Yet there are still some I do not understand. I have no idea how to custutomize my cheese ( I wish I knew what cheese is meant, I love Dutch cheeses though) and how to tell a "gadget" from a "widget" ! But I am learning ! So If you have the cheese I can customise for you just let me know. One thing I learnt - there is a wonderful community of people - webheads- open, caring and knowledgeable. Ain't I lucky to meet you? Thank you all. Special thanks to Daf, Teresa, Sharon and all co-moderators for patience, happy moods and care. From Russia With love, Natalia ( StPetersburg)
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2785 02/24/2008	Dear Natalia, We won't say goodbye, because we'll be here tomorrow and every day until BaW09. So we'll only say "See you!". Remember, tomorrow is only the first day of life after BaW08! I'm glad you learned a lot and made friends all over the world. It's fabulous what these Web 2.0 tools can do to make like-minded people come together to learn collaboratively, isn't it? Daf and I also had a wonderful time and were helped by a great group of collaborators, our mods and guest speakers, who gave their best."Thank you" for being with us these 6 weeks and in the Graduation ceremony today! I enjoyed talking to you! From Portugal with love, Teresa
Mbarek Akaddar #2786 02/24/2008	Thank you all for everything you have shared ,thank you for your help and your kind-heartedness .I have learned a lot thanks to you .I have been overwhelmed but I will go through it all again at my own pace. Best Wishes
Ilse Mönch #2791 02/24/2008	Congratulations to all the new Webheads... I'm really really sorry that I couldn't participate this year. Time went by very quickly and many problems kept me away:-( as an active BaWer..just could lurk. A big hug to Daf, Tere and all the great co-moderators...It's been hard work for you all. Now, I have a long list of tools to check little by little..although I know that as a Webhead I can always count on any of you to help me out when in doubt! Thanks a lot and hugs to you all Ilse Mönch:-)
Michael Coghlan #2792 02/25/2008	To all BAW Moderators, Thank you from us all - once again an amazing feat of teaching, caring, and supporting. Well done! And despite the volume of email I enjoyed pecking at them (like a chicken!) as they came through. Every year I discover something new from BAW members, and so it was again this year. - Michael
Dafne #2793 (Response to #2792) 02/25/2008	Dear all, One day after the BaW08 session is officially over, but we are still here, and will continue to be :-)Just a short note while my students are engaged intheir wikis, to say thanks to all, to invite you to keep communicating and sharing ;-) We had a great time at the graduation ceremony yesterday, which was followed by the EVO wrap-up session. I am sure the recording will soon be available at http://webheadsinaction.org Btw, there is a voicethread there where you can leave your messages about BaW / Just advance the program until you find the BaW slide. For those who did not attend the graduation party, I want to call your attention to the graduation page created by Tere with all the contributions made by you for this event. Check it out!http://baw-08.pbwiki.com/graduation Back to work, Daf
Jenna Pollock #2794 (Response to #2793) 02/25/2008	Thank you SO much Daf, and all the moderators! well, I missed most of the session due to some illness, but I lurked when I was up to it. There are about a zillion great links and resources!! Thanks to all the participants who contributed both questions and answers, it was really great. Daf, will the wiki stay up for awhile? Thanks! -Jenna
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2796 (Response to #2794) 02/25/2008	Hi, everyone! And I'd like to call your attention to a splashcast about BaW08 in that page, created by Daf. It's fabulous! :-) Hugs, Teresa
Moira Hunter #2797 (Response to #2796) 02/25/2008	Dear Daf and Tere, Together you have put together a wonderful piece of collective BaW08 art on this page! Cheers to all BaWers and hugs Moira

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Tools

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EVO survey

Paula Emmert
#2544
02/18/2008

Dear EVO Participants,
The EVO Moderators and Coordinators would like to thank you for taking the time to participate in this year's sessions. We hope you have found your time rewarding.
We would like to ask you to please take a minute to recognize the valuable time your moderators and guest speakers have contributed by taking a short (5-10 min.) survey that will help us plan for next year (link below).
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KAUrq9gekRwWBd6Ns5OaYA_3d_3d
Thanks very much for participating in the EVO!
--Paula Emmert
For the Coordination Team of the EVO

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Yahoo Group

Rita Zeinstejer #2501 02/17/2008	Hi everyone, Since we all use Yahoo Groups to receive messages from this group, I thought I would let you know about a free service I found called Grouply. It is the bestway I've discovered to access messages from all my Yahoo Groups. You can use this link to sign up: http://www.grouply.com/register.php?r=228193 . I am a member of so many groups that I found it very difficult to keep up with all of them. Grouply makes it easy. You can search and browse across all your groups at once and even view a cross-group event calendar. You can have one Smart Digest email (which I love) sent to you at the end of each day that summarizes what's going on across all your groups, highlighting what's interesting to you and hiding what's not. I've found Grouply to be a huge time-saver for me and I thought it would also be helpful for others. Enjoy! (not sure whether I got the info from anybody in THIS wonderful community, sorry if that is so..., I can only confirm I find it useful myself!) Rita
Maru #2534 02/17/2008	Hi Rita! Thanks fort sharing! I belong to four YG but I expect to belong to many others as time goes by, if I get going as I expect this will become very handy. Besos: Maru
Lorena Recio #2538 (Response to #2534) 02/17/2008	Rita, great to know there is a way to have all the groups together!!! I'm saving the link to delicious so that I can explore it asap. See you around, Lore (from Argentina)
Nina Liakos #2577 02/18/2008	Grouply sounds like a great idea but I am hesitant to sign up just yet because my yahoo password is the same one I am using for numerous other accounts. It doesn't seem like a good idea to give it away. Maybe I will change my yahoo pw to something different and then try it. Nina
Sharon Betts #2578 (Response to #2577) 02/18/2008	I hope they expand to include Google Groups also - I belong to too many different ones. Looks interesting - Sharon
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2575 02/18/2008	Dear All, You may find it strange to have received several messages today from several days back. This is the explanation: They were held as "possible" spam in the YG and Daf approved them yesterday, I believe. However, you may also have noticed that we were receiving them previously with the indication of possible spam, but I believe that the text wasn't complete in some cases. Very strange!!! Must be cyber gremlins!!!!! We have no idea why several of us have had our messages considered as "possible" spam and we haven't found a way to avoid that either. It's a totally new situation for us. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hugs, Teresa

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Blogs

Sharon Betts #2498 02/17/2008	Very very nice job - I have never used scrapblog, but it fits another project I am doing with some younger students. I will introduce it next week. Thanks for not only a great example, but a new tool. Sharon
Jane Petring #2542 02/17/2008	Hola, Tomorrow I will be flying from Canada to South America--Argentina, Chile and Peru--where I will be spending two to three months studying Spanish and travelling (I have a long-awaited sabbatical this session). After using blogs with my students for several years, I just decided it would be a good idea for me to try writing my own in a second language, and at the same time record some of my impressions and adventures. So here is my new Spanish blog: http://misviajesyaventuras.blogspot.com/ I hope that some of you Spanish speakers and Latin American experts will give me a bit of advice on language or places to go along the way! Abrazos, Juanita (mi nombre espańol) Jane Petring EVO Coordinator
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2545 (Response to #2542) 02/18/2008	Hey Jane, since you're flying all your all to South America, why not drop by in Brazil too? I'm sure you would love it... =) Ronaldo
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2617 02/19/2008	Hi Everyone, I have created a page inside my 21 classes blog to see what students could do with their blog pages. It is really great what can be done in terms of customizing pages in this blog host. Check out what I did in terms of the layout. How do you like it? http://thomastg.21classes.com/teacherze José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org __________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Non-text portions of this message have been removed
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2634 02/20/2008	Hi JA! The page looks really cool and very lively! Hugs, Teresa
Silvia Colombo #2645 (Response to #2634) 02/20/2008	Hi José Antonio! I've left a comment in the guestbook in your new blog! The images are great! Your post at ChinSwing is very engaging! No doubt your students will be delighted with it and they will start interacting straightaway! Cheers, Silvia from Argentina.
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2653 (Response to #2651) 02/20/2008	Hi Silvia, Thanks for your kind words and the comment. 21 clases does have a very nice way to be customized. José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2648 (Response to #2645) 02/20/2008	Great blog, JA! I believe the "look and feel" of a page is a very important factor in motivating visitors to come and explore. Your students will love this blog! And the activities, as well. Congrats, Mary
Maru #2651 (Response to #2648) 02/20/2008	Hi Jose Antonio! It is wonderful to see all the blogs of your students at the sidebar, your blog looks attractive. I bet your students will have fun and learn a lot with you as teacher. Love: Maru
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2654 (Response to #2653) 02/20/2008	Hi Maru, I am discovering many things at 21 classes as I go along the way. After my students start creting their pages, I found out how to place a menu on the main page. They are all still babies. José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Sharon Betts #2658 02/21/2008	This is a great example of using a background with 21classes which makes the blog look so appealing for students. Great job - again! Jose Antonio Sharon
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2685 (Response to #2668) 02/21/2008	Hi Sharon, Thanks a lot. I am still learning about it. It looks like a great blog host to work with. I am sorry I am kind of absent from the discussions now. I am getting too busy with classes. Hugs José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Natalia Malkina #2668 02/21/2008	Hi, JA ! I visited your 21 classses place !. Very inviting and imaginative. I left a comment. Natalia
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2687 (Response to #2685) 02/21/2008	Hi Nahalia, Thanks a lot for your comment. I am glad you liked it. It ws something that I loved doing. José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org

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Wiki

Ronaldo Lima, Jr.
#2560
02/18/2008

Hi Austen,
you forgot to send us the url...
=)
Ronaldo
ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
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Dear All,
this is my new Wiki which I'm going to introduce to students tomorrow. Please, hop in and let me know what think!
Plenty of hugs,
Austen

Maru
#2602
02/19/2008

Dear Tere and Daf:
Could I use the layout of your introduction’˛s wiki page for my course? I feel terribly odd. It would be a blatant copy of the first page of our Baw08 wiki page and your participants gallery page. I simply cannot think of another better way to start an online course! The difference would be that BaeL page will be in two languages and of course It won’t look as beautiful as yours if you let me and I manage to do so. Please let me know. See you soon at Alado!
Love: Maru

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Splashcast

Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2505 02/17/2008	Hey guys! I just wanted to share my first Splashcast video. I created a tutorial formy students who will begin blogging in 21classes next week. I lovedSplashcast, I found it easy to use and full of cool features. I highly recommend it. http://finally5b.21classes.com/archive/2008/02/14/tutorial.htm If anyone else is going to use 21classes and would like to use my tutorial, just let me know, I'll send you the html code. Kindest regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2522 (Response to #2505) 02/17/2008	Hi Ronaldo, Wonderful job you di d with splashcast. I have also opened a 21 classes blog and used yur tutorial in my Welcome page. I hope you don´t mind. I hav ealready posted a first activity and then I will move on to give learners some more independency on posting their classroom projects and letting others comment. I hope it works. Thanks a lot for sharing 21 classes and your splashcast tutorial. Here is the link to my baby blog http://thomastg.21classes.com Abraços José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Isabel Teixeira #2531 02/17/2008	Dear Ronaldo, The tutorial is really good.And I have some questions in relation to it: 1- Did you create a ppt first? For the voice,did you use audacity? How did you put voice and slides together? 2- How did you do those red squares ? Sorry for such basic questions,but I´d like to learn how to do it. Abraço, Isabel
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2556 02/18/2008	Hi JA and Isabel! JA, of course I don't mind you using the tutorial, after all, web 2.0 and Webheads are all about sharing, right? Your 21classes baby blog looks great, and I think chinswing is a great way to start, let me know what students thought of it. And later we can have our students interact, what you think? Isabel, this is what I did: first I took screen shots using the keyboard button "print screen". If you click this button, a shot of your screen is taken, so you can go to Paint Brush and past it (Ctrl + V). In Paint Brush I added the red rectangles and saved the images (one by one) as JPEG (smallerthan .bmp). After working with each image, I uploaded them to splashcast (splashcast.net). Then, splashcast gives me the option of adding the voice there, so you don't need to record using Audacity, you just choose the picture to which you want to add voice, press record, and speak. If you're not satisfied, you record again. When you're done, you publish your splashcast and get the html code to embed it. Hope to have helped! Kindest regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Isabel #2650 02/20/2008	Dear Ronaldo, Thanks for your help. Warmly, Isabel
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2550 (Response to #2531) 02/18/2008	Wonderful job, Ronaldo! And you make it sound so easy... I've just been there and left a comment. Thanks again for sharing. Mary
Maru #2571 (Response to #2556) 02/18/2008	Hi Ronaldo! Excellent work! Your tutorial is easy to follow and graphic. I am interested in the same questions that Isabel posted. Following your tutorial I signed up, it is a simple way to have your students work together. If you do have a PPP presentation, could you share it with me to try to record the voice in Spanish? I made a PPP for Blogger, it is the blog that most of you recomend for beginers but I loved 21 classes! I have not got around to add voice to it, adding sound is a total new skill for me. Love: Maru
Maru #2574 02/18/2008	Hi Ronaldo!! Thanks! I use Paint Brush too to prepare my presentations, I did not know the name in English!! In the computer is called only "Paint" I will give a try to Splashcast. I finally could record with Vaestro and Podomatic so I am solving little by little my technical problems with audio. Love: Maru
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2588 (Response to #2574) 02/18/2008	Hi Ronaldo, I am looking forward to starting with this cooperative blogging project. I have sent some invitations to students. Let´s see how it works. Thanks for your permission ot use your tutorial. It looks great and I am sure it will be helpful to my students. I spent some time customizing the layout of a student blog in 21 classes I opened for myself. It looks good now. We sure can have our students interact later. Hugs José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Mary #2591 02/18/2008	I created a splashcast, but when I try to embed it in the blog, it does notembed. Do you have any suggestions? This is the code they gave me. http://web.splashcast.net/go/so/1/s/YRME9355MY is the splashcast. Do you know how we can embed it in the blog?
Dafne #2592 (Response to #2591) 02/18/2008	Hi Mary, I don´t know what blog provider you are using, so I cannot tell you how to embed it. However, the code works because I have just embedded it on our wiki. Take a look: http://baw08participants.pbwiki.com/splashcast Very good use of Splashcast! Congrats :-) Btw, I made the player larger because you selected the smalllest. It won´t affect your code because I just changed the code for the player on the wiki. If you are using blogger or motime, you only need togo to the html editor to copy the code. HTH, Daf
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2595 (Response to #2592) 02/19/2008	Hello Mary, If you are using Wordpress, this is the code YRME9355MY How I got it? Copied the whole embed code to word and deleted all the extra stuf and put this between brackets. The code is the capital letters coming right after the /s/. If you just copy the letters without deleting the rest it won´t work. You have to manually delete everything. I hope it works. Hugs José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Maru #2601 02/19/2008	Dear Mary: I listened to your spashcast, it gave me the idea to make my BaeL course for beginers in Englsh and Spanish. Congratulations! It is great! I hope you can embed it in your page soon. Thanks fr sharing. Love: Maru
Mary #2604 (Response to #2601) 02/19/2008	Thanks Dafne and Jose. I don`t know why, but now the embedding code worked in my blogger blog when I created a new post. http://www.redcamarocruiser.blogspot.com Thanks Jose, too, for the tip to embed the capital letters part of the codein the wordpress blog. Maybe we are using different versions of wordpress, but ti did not embed. It merely showed up as the code numbe in brackets. You could see this on the preview page:YRME9355MY. Maybe I am supposed tohave some html code before YRME9355MY? Dear Maru, Thanks for the positive feedback.What is a BaeL course? Good luck with it!
Sharon Betts #2610 02/19/2008	The code is correct - some blogs require more than a simple embed code. It could be that is the problem. Which blog site are you using? Sharon
Mary #2612 (Response to #2610) 02/19/2008	It worked (the embedding) in blogger after several trys, but in wordpress, it would not embed.
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2613 (Response to #2612) 02/19/2008	Hi JA! Although I was not the recipient of this message, I want to thank you so very much. I sometimes have problems embedding things into my wordpress blog. I've already added your tip to my "useful tips andlinks" page in "my experience at BaW" wiki. Hugs, Mary
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2615 (Response to #2613) 02/19/2008	Hi Mary, I am so glad my message helped you. A ist of useful tips is a very good idea. I have been playing around wiht wordpress for some time and I manage to solve some of the problems I have. Technology is sometimes tricky and we are always learning with each other. Hugs José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Carlos #2619 02/19/2008	I ended my first splashcast and I has the "audacity" to post it next to JA's. I thought it would be interesting for you all to see a totally different reality...but them that's us... from totallt different realities... Enjoy it ... if you want Carlos
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2623 (Response to #2619) 02/19/2008	Hi Carlos, Worw! A verynice show indeed. You have givenus a very nice tour around the place you live in. The sound is clear and the volume is good. Congratulations and thanks for sharing the show. I placed and audio comment and was hapy to see it is not low. A success. Abraços José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2638 (Response to #2630) 02/20/2008	Hi Carlos, Your Splashcast is great and it made want to visit Portugal even more! I just have one tip, there is an option of making the pictures move automatically, which is very useful when you are using a connected narration, as in your case. After you edit everything and click "publish",in the option "playback settings" you choose "Sequential, Auto-Advance". Kindest regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Carlos #2642 (Response to #2638) 02/20/2008	Olá Ronaldo, Thank you for your kind words and tip... To be absolutely honest I saw the option but I didn't understand what it meant so I picked one of them, by complete hasard... Then , that's me... I always pick the wrong one when I have two options... It's like in the supermarket, I take the smallest line to pay ant it allways take me longer than the other one... I'll go there and change it! Thanks for your kind words and feel free to come to Portugal whenever you want to... You'll be wellcomed... Um Abraço Carlos
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2671 02/21/2008	Hey Carlos, I feel the same way (making the wrong choice) when I'm driving in a traffic jam. If I change lanes, the one I choose stops and the others go... =) Um abraço para vocę também! Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Carlos #2643 (Response to #2642) 02/20/2008	Oh, and I owe you a visit in Sharon's tlg which I'll do straight after this week Um Abraço Carlos
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2630 02/20/2008	Hi, Carlos! Congrats on your first splashcast about Benavente and Samora Correia. Very nicely done and narrated. I think I have only driven through both places. Hugs, Teresa
Carlos #2644 (Response to #2643) 02/20/2008	Hi, Teresa YThank you for your compliment. Next time, you'll be driven by, feel free to stop... and do let me know! It will be a pleasure to wellcome you! Carlos
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2656 02/21/2008	Hi Carlos! I enjoyed watching your splashcast a lot. The images and the information you give about your place and its customs, historical buildings, your school, etc. made me feel I was actually there (and with an excellent tourist guide!) Cheers, Mary
Carlos #2660 (Response to #2656) 02/21/2008	Hi Mary, Thank you for your kind words... I'm delighted with all these flattering messages as we aren't used to all this warmth, lately, specially among teachers in Portugal... I'm glad you enjoyed my work, be sure it's easily possible to be done... If I did, anyone can do it! Thank you Carlos
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2694 02/21/2008	I'm trying to put together a show with splashcast but I have problems with the recording part. It gives me a very short time for each photo so my comments are interrupted no matter how short I try to make them. What am I doing wrong, or not doing? Thanks in advance, Mary
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2717 02/22/2008	Hi Mary, Well, I'm not a Splashcast expert, and feel even less like one now that I have no idea what is going on... in Splashcast there is no limit to the recording time. Maybe the internet connection wasn't good at the time you were trying to record... why don't you try later from another computer and let us know? Regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Jose Antonio Da Silva #2731 02/22/2008	Hi Mary, Like Ronald said, in splashcast you can record as much as you want to. I don´t know how you did it. I do it like this. First I creat the visual show. I upload all the pictres, tag them and consider the show done. After you finish the show, click on edit and you will see a window with all your pictures and an icon for recordin, you will have just to press it and start recording. If you are happy wiht it, save and move to the next one. I hope it works. If you need some help, skype me and I will be happy to help you. my id is joseantoniook Hugs José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2733 02/22/2008	Yes, JA, I had followed all the steps you mention but even so the recording was interrupted when I played it. I guess it is as Ronaldo says, a problem with my internet connection. It's been raining here in Rosario and when that happens, my telephone and my internet connection become erratic, God knows why. Both the tel. company and the internet server keep blaming each other and neither gives me a solution. Today I tried again and, before recording myself, I left the window open for a while (to give it time to digest the order :D) and itworked fine. Thanks for your help. You people are wonderful! Hugs, Mary

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Hot Pots

Cristina Costa #2512 02/17/2008	Dear All, I was wondering if you have already used hot-potatoes. It i a great, very easy software to use. I have used it in the past - mainly to review vocabulary - and the students loved it. Here are some of my examples (very simple ones) http://englishpractice.com.sapo.pt/cloze/1.htm http://englishpractice.com.sapo.pt/hotpot/arm.htm http://englishpractice.com.sapo.pt/hotpot/face1.htm http://englishpractice.com.sapo.pt/hotpot/leg.htm http://www.geocities.com/navysternchen/presentperfect.html I also used to embed video and audio with it, but don't have any example here at hand. I hope it helps you. Cris
Nergiz #2543 02/18/2008	Dear Cris I've just tried one of your exercises :-). Thanks for sharing. I like hot potatoes as well as it is very easy to create exercises. Unfortunately, it's not fee for me as I don't work for "publicly- funded non-profit-making educational institutions" :-( Fortunately, there are many free sites on the web that I can use. Nergiz
Natalia Malkina #2598 02/19/2008	Hello everyone , I understand that I can download My hot potato exercises to a web site. But What do i have to do if I do not have a webplace yet, Can I load them into any storage place on the web so that I could later embed them into my web place ? Thanks in advance, Natalia
Maru #2621 02/19/2008	Hi Natalia: You can open a blog and place your exercises as your first post and then you will have a website. I hope it helps, I started my blog like that. Love: Maru
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2637 02/20/2008	Yes, Natalia. Here are some examples of file hosts you can use: http://www.fileden.com/ http://www.box.net/ Kind regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Fernanda Rodrigues #2640 (Response to #2637) 02/20/2008	Hi Natalia As soon as you find a server where to upload your hotpotatoes exercises, it's done. HotPotatoes exercises are wepages you can see online in any browser. You can link to them from other webpages or from blogs. Fernanda
Natalia Malkina #2714 02/22/2008	Hi ! thanks a lot for your help. Stupid me. Another question will Hot potato exercies work off line? I started doing them but hav/e finised yest so I do not know. Natalia
Fernanda Rodrigues #2727 02/22/2008	Hi Natalia Yes, HotPotatoes exercises work offline. When you cretae them, save them in your computer as html files, and you can then open them in your browser: In Firefox: File/open file In IE: File/ Open Browse To edit your files you need to start Hot Potatoes applications and open the files you want to change. In that case, for example, if you want to finish a matching exercise, open JMatch, then open the *.jmt file you saved the first time. Fernanda

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Questionwriter

Cristina Costa
#2511
02/17/2008

Dear Natalia,
some can be saved off line, like hotpotatoes and Quizfaber, other are stored on servers online.
I have used Quizfaber before offline, when I didnt have a server to upload them. I used to create exercises for my students to practice. They found it more entertaining to do it on a computer! ;-)
Here is the link: http://www.questionwriter.com/free-quiz-software.html
Cris
----- Original Message ----
From: Natalia Malkina
To: baw08@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 16 February, 2008 6:59:36 PM
Subject: Re: baw08 Re: questionwriter personal edition is free
Dear Mbarek,
I had a look at your quizzes. They are really very good and easy to use.
I have two questions is it possible to save these quzzes off-line?
And could you give a link to the Questionwriter ?
Thanks a lot
Natalia
St Petersburg, Russia

Lorena Recio
#2555
02/18/2008

Hi Natalia, me again. I've fallen behind a lot lately and I'm catching up with mails. I don't know if someone has suggested this already, but you can use puzzle maker to create puzzles off-line(http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/). It's for free and I've been using it for a long time now, I love it!
HTH, love from Argentina, Lore

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Qlipboard

Ocsovszky Zsóia
#2514
02/17/2008

Hi JA,
I struggled with this a bit :-)
Again Mac problem: they dont have it for Mac and when I wanted to install to windows a huge window environment (I dont remember exactly what was it) was trying to being installed to my computer, and finally it could not manage to install it.
I will try the online version
Which one you created your work with (On or Off line?)?
Zsofi

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Online storage

Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2552 02/18/2008	Hi Mary, I believe there are two aspects in your question. Creating a webpage and having a server. Exercise creators as proprofs, Script-O and quia store theexercises you create in their server, so, if you want to have all of them listed on the same place, you can create a webpage in places like geocities (I'm not very fond of it), googlepages (very easy to use), wizard.4teachers.org (never used), page flakes, sitekreator or a wiki and have the links to the exercises there. Now, if you use an exercise creator that works off-line, but gives you the option of uploading html files to a server in order to have it online (like hotpotatoes), you will need a server too. If your school already pays for a server, try using that one (that's what I do with HP activities I create), but if that's not your case, there are some file hosts for free on the internet, like fileden.com Hope to have helped (if not, Teresa will step in a few minutes =)) Kind regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com -------------------- Dear Teresa, Great exercise page! I love the exercises themselves and the way they are organized on the page. Now I have a question (a very silly one, I'm afraid): I've been going through the reading in week 5 and, if I have understood it correctly,some of the sites give you the possibility of storing your exercises on their web site server. Now what happens if you want to store exercises you have created using different sites (as you have done) and you don't have a web site of your own? Should I create one? The only free one I know of is Geocities, and my experience of it last year wasn't very good. It was most of time very difficult to access. I hope you can understand my question :-) Hugs, Mary
María Lorena #2678 02/21/2008	Hi everyone, I've spent 2 days trying to link my activities to the wiki I've set up. I'm wasting a lot of time that I don't have because I should be preparing History (final exam in 3 weeks). That is why I thought of all of you. Please can you help me? I've created 3 games with Matching Game Maker and Memory Game Makerfor a student of mine. He is 8. I wanted to embed them to my wiki and I couldn't, so I thought of linking them but I still can't. I've also opened an account in FileDen (Ronaldo's suggestion) but I don't know what I'm supposed to upload there. Every single file? Create a folder? Apart from that, I would like to know if there are more of these kind of games. I've been searching through Google, but it is taking forever and I don't have time right now. Thanks in advance, I should go and pay attention to my daughter now :) Lore
Teresa Almeida d'Eca #2680 (Response to #2678) 02/21/2008	Dear Lore, I can understand your frustration. I went through it last weekend. But once we master the tool, it's wonderful and ver gratifying to see such enthusiasm in our students. With Memory Maker I created a folder with the name of what I'm having students practice, such as classroom objects, school objects... And that is the folder that I uploaded to my server. Inside it you should have an .html file with the name of the folder Your URL for the link in your wiki or blog should look something like this. http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/school/memorygame/schoolobjects/schoolobjects.html I have my server http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/ with a folder for "school" things. Inside I have a "memorymaker" for all the exercises created with that specific program. In turn, inside that I have a folder called "school objects", the name of that specific game, and the corresponding .html file. Hope this helps.I have never been able to get my "Matching Game Maker" games to work online, only in my computer. I can't figure out why. Don't forget to look at the links that Daf and Ramona sent. You can also take a look at the exercises I created. http://fwe3.motime.com/ Keep cool! Take it easy! You'll make it. :-) Hugs, Teresa
Maria Rosario Di Monaco #2690 (Response to #2684) 02/21/2008	Hi Lorena! I also had a lot of problems uploading things into wikis at first. I tried pbwiki, wetpaint but I finally settled for wikispaces. For me, this is the most user-friendly. They let you upload anything quite easily, at least in my experience. I've uploaded files from evoca, vaestro, voicethread, script-o, hot potatoes, and a worksheet from wizzard sth (I don't remember the name of that tool now) Now I'm going to apply for the ad free version. Have a look at it: http://fceexercisesandactivities.wikispaces.com/ I hope it works for you. Good luck! Mary
María Lorena #2706 (Response to #2698) 02/22/2008	Don't worry Daf, I got your message. I'm trying to open an account there but I have problems with the page. Boxstr also allows me to upload ZIP files... I have RAR files so I will download Winzip or any other available. I wanted to try with Tripod because I sounds like a great tool. Maybe I can try later to see if the problem with the page dissapears. I also made a mistake with your name (Dafm instead of Daf!) and I realized today so we are even. Thanks for everything, Lore
Dafne #2695 (Response to #2692) 02/21/2008	Mary, Tripod allows you to upload a zip file and then it decompresses it for you automatically, so you will beable to add the link to the wiki.This is a tutorial I created for a participant of aTESOL course who had the same problem you are having trying to upload HP exercises. I don´t know how if the Tripod interface has changed because I am not using it anymore, but this might give you some light on how the process is: http://dafnegonzalez.com/tutorials/tripodtutorial.htm HTH, Daf
María Lorena #2692 02/21/2008	Dear Dafne, Tere and Mary, I wanted to thank you for your kind comments and for encouraging me. I've tried with another server now because FileDen didn't allow me to upload files with 'html'extension. I googled hosts and found 'Boxtr'. I have uploaded the file in zip and I could link it to my wiki...but I have to unzip it first... so I will keep on trying, just uploading all the files instead of a zip folder and I think it will work. As regards the links, thank you!!! I will delicious them and explore them a little bit more. As soon as I can manage to do what I want with my wiki, I'll let you know the link.Thanks again! Lore P.S. Mary, I've kept your wiki in my delicious account because I'll be starting two courses on FCE this year. Wonderful staff what you have in there. I loved it!!!
Claudia #2684 (Response to #2680) 02/21/2008	Hi everyone, Can anyone help me? I created a wiki and tried to add a link to my website www.englishcorner.pbwiki.com but it didn't work. I followed these steps that worked for a powerpoint I uploaded: edit page Insert plugin pbwiki magic html Visit our website finish and I moved it into a table (my daughter helped me with html) Thanks and sorry for being behind the group. Claudia
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2715 (Response to #2706) 02/22/2008	Hi Claudia! The first link in your wiki isn't working because there are two links together: http://englishcorner.pbwiki.com/www.geocities.com/carril_claudia To fix the links follow these steps: 1- click edit page 2.1 - in classic mode, simply replace the wrong link for the following: Visit our website">www.geocities.com/carril_claudiaVisit our website 2.2 - in point-and-click mode, you select "visit our website", then click the add link button (with a globe and a chain), a pop-up window will open, in "link type" choose "url", then type "www.geocities.com/carril_claudia" 3- click "save" That's it. I hope it helps! Kindest regards from Brazil, Ronaldo ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
Claudia #2759 02/23/2008	Hi Ronaldo, Thanks, it worked perfectly. I have another problem now: I want to put the link in the button (you can see the empty one on the front page), how can I do that? Claudia
Ronaldo Lima, Jr. #2776 02/24/2008	I'm glad it worked, Claudia! About the button, are you using classic or point-and-click mode? Ronaldo

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Video

Ronaldo Lima, Jr.
#2513
02/17/2008

Hi Daf and Carlos,
For videos with pre-recorded audio, I started using Video Spin as an alternative to Windows Movie Maker (WMM crashes some times... and Video Spin
has more options) and I'm loving it. You can download it for free (http://baixaki.ig.com.br/download/VideoSpin.htm - site in Portuguese).
Ronaldo
ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
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If you want to use pre-recorded audio, you could use MovieMaker (all PCs have this tool), or use PhotoStory 3 (free download). Once you have your movie ready, you can upload it to YouTube, Splashcast, Toufee, or any of the other tools where you can upload video for free.
I am eager to see your home town :-)
Daf

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Seesmic

Jose Antonio Da Silva #2518 02/17/2008	Hello Dear Bawers This is a tool I found out about reading George Siemens' blog . It is brand new and it video equivalent of Twitter. You have to subscribe and wait for permission to test. http://www.seesmic.com/ . Seems like a great tool to get students involved in videoblogging. Have fun. José Antônio http://thomasja.wordpress.com http://joseantoniook.edublogs.org
Dafne #2520 (Response to #2518) 02/17/2008	Yes, JA, I already got my registration code :-) Daf
Ramona Dietrich #2523 (Response to #2520) 02/17/2008	Thanks JA, You are a font of information. That's why I LOVE this group. The information just keeps flowing in. Thanks a bunch. Beijinhos from rainy Portugal, Ramona