I must mention Pachelbel's Canon in D Major which was almost my downfall this morning when I couldn't control the sound on the computer and could neither stop it nor make it quieter. I found it on a blog made by a mathematics student while I was looking for examples to use in a short talk about blogs in education to my colleagues. The only solution in the end was for the computer to have its innards spilling out while a vital connection was severed!
This was both professional development and language class in that I was asked to give my short presentation in English.
The number of online conferences seems to be growing exponentially and I have signed up to another two taking place in the next two weeks, e-Trends in Australia and SLanguages2007 in Second Life. It becomes difficult to catch up with the sessions I missed in previous conferences but I was very glad to catch up with Carla Arena's session on blogs from the WIAOC conference a month ago. Together with her colleagues, Erika Cruvinel, and Ronaldo Lima, Carla went through a wealth of examples of the use of blogs in English language teaching. The point is not to copy what Carla and her colleagues have done but to realise that the potential is enormous and that ideas should come from your own circumstances.
