Describe below your interaction with classes or students of other webheads, e.g., reading/commenting on their blogs or chatting with them.
Ronaldo Lima Jr (Brazil):
Advanced Brazilian EFL students created a voicethread (they chose the pics, wrote and recorded their scripts) talking about the cities that, according to them, best represent Brazil. Webheads collaborated leaving comments and having their students comment as well. So far (Sep. 2, 2008) the thread has been viewed 1,947 times and has 92 comments (and I hope it keeps growing!). Here is the thread:
Vance Stevens (UAE)
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com
Rita Zeinstejer (Argentina)
SHARING CULTURE: PROJECT WORK WITH STUDENTS IN ROSARIO, ARGENTINA, AND 10 WEBHEADS
April-May 2008
Stages of the Project
What the project with ten members of WIA from nine different countries implied for the students involved:
* honing listening and speaking skills
* expanding vocabulary
* using the language in authentic situations
* using English with native/non-native teachers of the language
* communicating safely
* learning about other cultures
* boosting their self-confidence
* raising awareness on the importance of learning English
Berta Leiva (Venezuela):
1, The most recent was one of José Antonio´s groups (two days ago,
even if I am still in Toronto. It is a blog,
http://thomastg.blogspot.com/ he did not really ask for
collaboration, he just mentioned it in his Facebook and I decided to
have a look and made comments to all his kids because they had made
very nice drawings and had written about their imaginary friends,
and this is what he wrote to me:
Re: Hi from Berta
Hi Bertha,
You are wonderful. I loved the comments you have left. Thank you so
much for the kind words. My students are great. They are really
great; I am sure they will love your comments. I will take them to
the computer lab and they will reply to your comments.
Thanks a million
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So now I will visit the blog again to check on what they wrote ;-)
2. I had a collaboration with Sergio Mazzarelli (from EVO-Video) in
Nagasaki Japan which is at: http://writingatusb.wikispaces.com/
His 19 students participated in our wiki for almost a month.
3. Another project was the Sisterclasses
http://esleflsisterclasses.edublogs.org
with Larry Ferlazzo where we produced a Voicethread about Venezuela
and many students made comments to it (written and recorded) and we
made comments about the presentations of students in Sacramento,
Hungary, Romania and Brazil. The student showcase is at
http://esleflstudents.edublogs.org/2008/05/16/venezuela/
4. I made a presentation for Cora Chen´s students in San Francisco
on comparing and contrasting places in the world. It is at:
http://places.podomatic.com/ There is one by Michael and another by
Cris in the same page. I have also made comments for the students of
a number of Webheads such as Erika, Jane Petring, Susana Canelo and
Ronaldo, and you too, ha, ha (not this year, though).
Saša Sirk (Slovenia):
- have been part of Vance's Writingmatrix (http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com) together with Rita, Doris and Nelba and their students
- was interviewed by Rita's students in the project she mentiones above http://caeb2008.pbwiki.com/
- chatted with Doris Molero's students via YM http://rostilj.blogspot.com/2007/07/chat-with-students-from-venezuela.html
- talked to Dafne's architecture students about a local bridge http://id3124-parallel.pbwiki.com/Bridges_part2#SashaSirk/SolkenBridge , http://www.slideshare.net/sasasirk/the-solkan-bridge
- dropped comments to various student blogs