EditaSaluzzo

welcome back!

editasaluzzo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:42:12 +0000

I re-welcome myself to wordpress…

I’ve re-read my first post about twitter. I needed time, and still need. However, twitter is the app. I’m using most. I’ve found really interesting people to follow there. Although I don’t have time to follow all the links they offer daily, I can grasp an idea of what’s going on.

As regards podcasts, I’ve undestood the concept better, but haven’t tried podcasting yet. I guess I should start by podcast scripts first. Undoubtely a new text-type, which will soon appear in EFL text-books.

Posted in Social Media in ELT Tagged: welcome 2009

Back from reflection

editasaluzzo — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:33:47 +0000

Back from reflection, into action, real life, real connections, real classrooms. This is like a Twitter entry! Anyway…let´s go on and see if I can find how to put RSS in my blogs.

Technical problems enhance reflection?

editasaluzzo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:26:15 +0000

Social media is about connecting, commenting, blogging. Technical problems, like no telephone line at home have isolated me. I feel like an island, but have decided to take this time for reflecting. I just hope that when the workshop is over, all the links and reading will be here for me to follow. Overcoming frustration, I keep on reflecting on how to use this tools in my lessons. I fear the technical problems that will surely frustrate my students, so this realistic time in Argentina is helping me after all. I´ve read many posts about the teacher as a learner, connected with a community of teacher-learners, who then enthusiastically comes into the classroom to share “the connected world “with his/her students. Experiencing this temporary disconnection is preparing me to come back to my Argentinian classrooms where the “connected world” is still a science fiction movie.

Learning about RSS

editasaluzzo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:31:14 +0000

Really simple syndication. I have just started my duties for the second week at SMielt. I found out that my feed url is the same as my weblog url + the word feed. Then I typed it at the News aggregator and saw part of my first post there.

Today I also learned a bit more about dotSub, which looks really juicy!

I liked this video about RSS. Watch it!

SOCIAL MEDIA in ELT

editasaluzzo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:46:28 +0000

I am attending the workshop at EVO TESOL2008. I´m opening all the accounts to get acquainted with applications to explore social media tools. It´s a tedious process but I realise that it´s the way to get familiarized to applications. I opened my Flick and Googlereader last year. I´ve read about how useful del.icio.us is. and now that I´ve opened my own account I can see it´s great cooperative bookmarking. I think it´s going to be very useful for teacher training workshops.

I´ve also read about “the wonders of Twitter”, but can´t still think of uses for it. Just socializing could be a good reason to use it. Anyway, it´s easy to update, but I have not yet set it to my IM.

Definitely I can grasp Communitywalk usefulness, but find it a bit complicated for my skills at the moment.

Thanks to the forums in SMielts I´m learning useful tips to manage this blog in WordPress. Definitely blogger is easier to use but WP is more complete. I have still to open my account at dotSub, which I guess will be useful to manipulate videos and film for EFL. Let´s see.