Reading: Special Report: Multimedia in Schools http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/multimediareport-2011/index.html?intc=EW-MM11-TWT via @TheConsultantsE
Reading: Special Report: Multimedia in S
June 13, 2011
Pancake race.
February 3, 2011
The Pancake Race was on 2nd February. Here’s the video. Enjoy.
Please answer this form.
Here is the link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHNGMTdITnRiNFRVMkR0OFljbEdSNEE6MQ
Thank you so much.
Leonor Cristina Santos
@edwaves
Inviting digital skills.
January 10, 2011
Hi everyone. I want to share my prezi presentation with you. I decided to do it because this is the result of hard work
and if it is useful, I’m happy. 
http://prezi.com/mz6nbxt16kms/inviting-digital-skills/
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1294691207
Feel free to comment.
I would like to know your opinion.
@edwaves
Leonor Cristina Santos
A book transformed in e-book.
October 18, 2010
And this is it. I transformed a book into an e-book and read “The trouble with mum.” by Babette Cole. I used flash MX to do it. It is a presentation for the students and it can be used in the interactive board. Enjoy.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QPEAECN2
@edwaves
Thoughts on #rscon10 .
August 2, 2010
This weekend I participated in four sessions of The Reform Symposium e-conference #rscon10 http://ow.ly/2jEo9 .
Session one: via @etutoria RT @Networking_Lady: Session now starting, come and join http://bit.ly/alLci7 #rscon10
Session two: via @etutoria RT @jackiegerstein: @thenerdyteacher‘s Blogger’s Cafe In My Classroom? http://bit.ly/aFnfU4 #rscon10
Session three: via @web20classroom RT @ShellTerrell: Integrating Social media into Your Class by @tgwynn http://bit.ly/9n9KmX #rscon10
Session four: via @web20classroom Getting ready for my #rscon10 Closing Keynote….http://bit.ly/biYnIh
I am not going to summarise what I heard because I don’t think I should do it. These sessions are to be followed in loco otherwise all the interaction would be missed and that is, for me, the richness that engages people and makes them participate with their thoughts too. The most important was the reflection I did during and after the sessions which brings new awereness to my work.
The first was the INTERACTIVITY which was at its pick with Jo Hart. It was the first time I saw this in action on elluminate with such speed and being so meaningful. These sessions are indescribable and for foreigners are hard but amazing. The focus of attention has to be in what you hear, what you read, what you see, what you write or what you speak if you have questions. So the four skills in action. It would be a good way of practice for students too.
The second was the fact that people, me included, are too much worried about tools and producing content but ENGAGEMENT is forgotten. I knew this but seeing good examples of engaging students made me realize that this is the way too. Google docs and wikis are often used to share and collaborate. I think I may call them, collective worksheets to engage students. They all fill in one on the web.
Tim Gwynn @tgwynn also uses this to engage students.
Saywire. https://saywire.com/
Gaggle. https://www.gaggle.net/
Chatzy. http://www.chatzy.com/
The classroom blogs are engaging too. We saw examples of texts from the students and sentences like ” I agree with you but I also think that………… ” So shared comments with discussion enrich everyone when different points of view complete thoughts. It has been said that they are regulated by the simple belief “The principal, the teachers, the students, have to be proud of the work only then it is released”.
So to sum up this informal reflection, RT @gret: We need to be screaming from the rooftops how wonderful social media is. @web20classroom #rscon10 and two words in head INTERACTIVITY and ENGAGEMENT which aren’t easy but can be powered by everyone. :-)
@technolanguages
Links collected during the sessions:
Main document: https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1zOejJGonbd1mTyVS8wrIII2A0KgKyhh8I20RWxYkBjs&hl=en&pli=1#
http://wikivideolibrary.blogspot.com/
http://www.learncentral.org/user/vroomreg
http://www.netvibes.com/kcaise#FCP_10-1
http://www.netvibes.com/kcaise#Digital_Ethnography_mwesch
http://reformsymposium.com/blog/2010/07/12/keynote-paula-white/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480-1,00.html
http://www.thenotebook.org/content/teachers
http://cybraryman.com/wikis.html
http://arcomoore.communityblogs.us/2009/04/12/understanding-poverty-language-register/
Machines: students’ project work.
June 2, 2010
Calmly enjoying my students’ exhibition of the project work: Machines, in Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal. After a lot of work, it’s always a pleasure to see the results and they are astonishing. I can’t wait to show them what I consider to be creativity on the move. Action on the move. This is without any doubt, the future. A challenge accepted and transformed into reality. I have to say that it is the fourth year I work on a project like this one. Surprises always come out. I can only say WOW. Way to go kiddos.
By Leonor Cristin@ Santos
@technolanguages
@leocris
Portuguese blogs.
May 28, 2010
When your eyes take in something that pleases you, your brains’ reward system is activated, lifting your whole mood. So let me express my style in print 
. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to @mtranslator by DM and I was curious about what were her favourite blogs she is an expert in edublogs to me.
RT @Mtranslator: My latest post about some of the blogs I always follow: http://bit.ly/aJ6oCb #esl #edtech Yessssss. (In @technolanguages)
Later she delivered a post about the subject. Why not? I was so happy that I did RT instantaneously and I saw it by chance because she didn’t tell me anything. Yesssss I wrote. Because I wanted to learn from her experience. Foreigners are doing that. I’ve seen some fabulous Portuguese blogs and I decided to do the same. Asked for help and some fantastic followers answered me sending their links. So professional they were worried about subjectivity. Well yes I must give a general view but I must tell you my opinion too. OUR experience here on social networks is golden and we can learn a lot from each other. Even if the goal is to get to a particular place , during the journey maybe we realize that meeting people and learning from them, from their experience, is very important. It is worth what it is worth but it came from my wish of doing an informal survey and discover more about the subject. I must add that some other followers were tweeting their blogs when I asked for help and I did RT. See in @technolanguages . Some of them are very interesting and need collaboration. I read several and like doing so even though I’m more interested in edublogs.
So this is my first OPEN POST. I begin and invite you to post your comments here if you wish. Feel free and at ease to do so. Tell me what are your favourite Portuguese blogs, please. I will complete it too as soon as I discover more.
For now I will suggest the following based on what my followers sent me and what I like. Simple and clear as I tweeted.
via @jabaldaia http://directorio.dicasparablogs.com/ http://pt.wordpress.com/tags/ General view.
via @bruxinhadepapel http://dererummundi.blogspot.com/ http://horasextraordinarias.blogs.sapo.pt/ http://universosdesfeitos-insonia.blogspot.com/ Edublogs.
via @retorta http://retorta.net/retortablog/ Edublog.
MY FAVOURITE BLOG:
via @technolanguages https://contocontigo.wordpress.com/ Edublog. (Others could have been chosen but I often use the texts of this one to work with my students. The stories are small, beautiful and very important values are shared. I used these texts for the activity “STOP, let’s read”. Students and other teachers loved them). The author is Maria do Rosário Pontes.
By Leonor Cristin@ Santos
I write in English because I love it
and like this more people will read my post.
@leocris
@technolanguages
Research.
May 23, 2010
I like collecting, researching and that begun very early when I was young. Because I am paying attention, the universe – the ideas- come to me. It feels a little like being called. Not scratching for it or digging for it, not constructing something but paying attention to the situations and trusting that what you don’t know will be available to you. It is bigger than your overt consciousness or your intelligence or even your gifts, it is out there somewhere and you have to be curious and reach out. My experience tells me that I can’t just reach some little plateau and say that’s it, this is the place. It is always a personal search, a research.
So I have been collecting research links for some time and here they are just to be shared.
Twitter search. http://search.twitter.com/
Videos search. http://newverhost.com/reports/59/40/589/owaks_com.html
The internet dictionary. http://www.netlingo.com/
By Leonor Cristin@ Santos
@edwaves
Beyond writing!
May 10, 2010
New books are being born. Spontaneity is the new art. People on social networks write in different ways and show a lot of their character when they do so. Attachment to writing orinformation never has been so immediate. Analysing the various kinds of writing is being a major work of research. Even all tweets are saved in the lib. of the congress http://ow.ly/1Jdj0 somewhat categorized as I’m writing this post. There are blogs measuring what writing reveals . So this is it. The era of being at ease and showing it. http://ow.ly/1JcAm Never before people were so spontaneous and that was mediated right away. In social networks, beyond published writing, a parallel phenomenon is happening and common writing is being followed right here, right now as never before. What does this mean? For me it means the democratization of all writings and the possibility of showing work that otherwise would be hidden or not as easily shown to all. This is very important, it is power given to the world. May we want to turn this power in our favour and transform it into something very useful to all. Through creativity, art, value and updated information.
Used this. SIMPLY AMAZING. RT @robingood Paper Rater: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More http://ff.im/-k4tYW
Two first links found through http://search.twitter.com/
Last link tweeted by @robingood as mentioned before.
How to write in social network. Research. http://ow.ly/1JcEw
Written by Leonor Cristin@ Santos
Monday, 10th May 2010
And after this tweet posted today. Get your twitter updates, favorites in a fine pdf e-book http://tweetbook.in/ via @profteresa
MY FIRST TWEET BOOK. Written by Leonor Cristin@ Santos @leocris http://ow.ly/1J7I6
MY SECOND TWEET BOOK.Written by Leonor Cristin@ Santos @technolanguages http://ow.ly/1J7GF
My content: true colours.
April 29, 2010
Really appreciate the art of giving. What comes out of our hands, what we are is going straight to everyone. Open and free to be
used as we want, when we want with whom we want to. This could be a new era of creative people being useful, helping each other
and, most of all, helping the system to develope for a better one. The new open education on the line for all. :-)
Here is a content developed by me, to use in English classes, as a reading comprehension exercise, if you wish.
Let’s just hope for the best motivation of users. Enjoy.
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1272551806
Next a quizz: daily routine.
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1272553520
Content developed by Leonor Cristin@ Santos
Song by Cyndi Lauper: “True colours”.
(Personal) @leocris
(Professional) @technolanguages
29th April 2010
Made in Portugal.
