My name is not Teacher

Although the TEFL Conference ended last week, I haven’t posted on the final day. I desperately needed a break to think about everything. So after 6 days of thinking, here I go.

On the last morning, I was shocked by Barbara Dieu’s workshop on Blogging. I shouldn’t have been so shocked, since Barbara is well known for her class blogging. She had some really great tips and insights as to how to make a blog project possible. Many thanks go to her for a wonderful experience. We actually created blogs here in wordpress and posted messages and created a page. Very important for teachers! I would like to continue this training for teachers at Alumni as a way to get more familiar with this possibility. You can see some of the things here:

www.alumni07.wikispaces.com
www.dekita.org
www.43places.com

After this workshop, it was on to Tony and Marilena and the second half of their 4 hour workshop “Going Cyber: Without Going Bananas”. Our group created a blog project for high intermediate students to work on critical thinking. It was a great experience to get together and actually plan a project. Even though we didn’t have a lot of time to plan everything, it was a chance to start the planning process, which got some of us thinking. Hopefully this wave will continue for others, as I am sure it will continue with me.