Thanks for Your Participation - Recording of Week 3 Live Informal Group-Meeting Is Here!

Hi! We'd like to thank you so much for your participation in our third live group-meeting that was carried out in the Webheads LearningTimes vOffice (Link), on Sunday. Debby, Jen, and I, Buthaina, would like to thank, especially Sylwia (Link), Mona, (Link) Mark (Link), Lorena (Link), and Hala (Link) for their great contribution to the live discussion through sharing ideas on ways to integrate RSS technology in their ESP classes. It was, indeed, such an informative and fun session.

For those of you who couldn't make it to our live meeting of Week 3, the recording of the live discussion can be found at Recordings wiki page.

After you finish viewing and listening to the recording, please share your ideas on ways you plan to use RSS technology for your ESP classes. You could do that either by adding your ideas to this wiki page, or through a post to your blog. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your collaboration and cooperation!

EVO 08 Web 2.0 for ESP Team
PS This draft entry was saved and will be published when connection is restored here at my end in the Gulf Region! Thank you for your patience. (Buth)

Using Elluminate Live for Your Blended Classes!

This entry made particularly to answer a question, by Lori in New York, on using the vRoom by Elluminate live! Lori and everyone interested, I did use the virtual room by Elluminate for one of my ESP, Business English blended classes. I found it very helpful as it allows high quality of participation through audio, video, and text. It also has breakout rooms that made group-activities so easy to do online. Also, allowing power point files to be uploaded helped me prepare lessons on the fly. The Whiteboard tools are so useful and effective in terms of participation or adding information and questions quickly. So, my experience using Elluminate was very successful.

Hope this is helpful, Lori! Please let me know if you have other questions about the Elluminate vRoom.

All the best :)

Recording of Vance Stevens' on Blogging & Tagging for ESP/EAP

Hi all,

We'd like to thank our guest speaker for this week 2, Vance Stevens for the useful information on blogging, tagging, and using technorati, which he shared with us at the live presentation, on Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008. We'd also like to thank our group members, Sylwia, Mark, Toni, and Janet for their participation in this session.

We're sorry that other participants couldn't make it to the live session this time and hope they'd be able to join us in other future live meetings.

For your convenience, the recording of the presentation, created courtesy of LearningTimes.org support team, can be found at Recordings page on our wiki.

Kindest regards,
Buth,
for the evo 08 Web 2.0 for ESP team

Live Session with Vance Stevens, on Blogging & Tagging for ESP/EAP Class, Tue, Jan 22 at 12:00 - 13:00 UTC /GMT

For more information about this event please go to Guest Speakers wiki page!

Looking forward to meeting most of the participants of the EVO 08 Web 2.0 for ESP!


Best!

I Am Not a Blogger!!

Yes, I am a blog reader and blog user, but I am not a blogger! I am only a teacher who likes and tries to use blogs for her classes. I may become a blogger one day, but at the moment I like to use bloggs for my classes.

A blog is a very practical tool that is easy to use by students and teachers, this is why I always integrate blogs in my classes, and encourage students, especially those enrolled in ESP, Science English or Engineering courses that required students to write search papers to present by the end of a semester. I ask my students to create their group-blogs so that they can help one another learn and improve their research and writing skills. In addition to that they learn how to learn collaboratively they also learn new skills on how to work on a project cooperatively and collaboratively.

I believe a blog is an essential tool for ESP classes since it really helps prepare lour students for their future jobs or careers. Most International Enterprises or businesses in any industry in general have integrated blogs to be used by employees. So, having our students use blogs for research or assignment or any other educational purposes would definitively support their learning process during their education years and later in their workplaces.

It's be great to hear your feedback or comment on this entry, folks!

Week 2: Blogging and Tagging for ESP

Dear Participants,

I'd like to welcome you to week 2 when we will explore and learn
together more about the world of tags and blogs.

Please go to Week 2 to
start working on the activities of week 2.

Please read one or two articles required or recommended for Week 2 at
Resources page here.

Kindly visit the Guest Speakers page for information about this week's event.

Finally, I'd like to inform you that most of our communication and interaction for this week take place on this blog; so, please post your questions or comments to this blog. It'd be also great if you could share your thoughts or experience using blogs.

Happy Blogging and Tagging to all :)

EVO 08 Web 2.0 for ESP team