Entangled

What a day!!!

I have been looking at technologies to introduce in my teaching. Came across Moodle which seems to answer (theoretically) to many of my questions and intentions. Someone from Hawai got in touch and gave me wonderful feedback on the uses of Moodle in language teaching. I have spent hours looking at it. But....got completely lost at the installation stage!!! How frustrating and how exhausting. I am giving up for the moment.

Tomorrow is another day! Who knows? I might get a surprise and everything will be clear (as mud?) and I will be asking myself the question: What was all the fuss about?

Things to be done

Never before have I slept so soundly!!! I must have needed it.

Off to the Botanic Garden to collect leaves, multicoloured autumn leaves for our current project at the Botanics. We are to produce a library page of leaves, that will give us the opportunity to examine different structures, shapes and venation, which we will then paint. The whole process is so much fun. The drawing, that becoming familiar with the subject, the colour analysis, the mixing of colours to get the right hue and tone!!!. The fruits of our labour will be exhibited at the Images of the Garden Exhibition which takes place every year in January. Put it in your diary!!

Reaching out

I have just been to a workshop on Blogs and here I am, blogging!

I am a Languages teacher, very excited at the possibilities offered by new technologies and social tools in Education. I want to find new ways of engaging my students in the use of Spanish outside the classroom. We have formed some exchange groups taking advantage of the fact that at the college where I work there are lots of Spanish speakers learning English. The problem is that some of my students are shy and don't feel confident enough to make "face to face" contact.

This is where the blogs come in, they could start using this tool to reach out for Spanish speakers in the virtual world and...who knows, there might be someone out there willing to talk.

Any comments, ideas, suggestions would be appreciated!!