Watching Back
Cory Doctorow posted this on his blog today
Vernacular Video by Howard Rheingold
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Howard Rheingold posted this video to YouTube
“Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture — and a hint of changes to come in education.”
Wii like to be under the sea!
Just read a great post on the Consolarium blog about how Mrs Bullivant, a teacher in Stirling, Scotland, and her class of P.6 children are using a game on the Wii in the classroom. Check it out here.
IN.FORMAT
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/1953704]
IN.FORMAT is a blog created by Eugeni Catalán and Jesus Mañosas to explore new ways of giving information within an office context. Tired of the traditional training formats and their poor results, the creators of IN.FORMAT hope to provide useful material in a user-friendly format. Check the blog out here (in Catalan)
Scratch Palleja
Click on the image to watch
After visiting Citilab to attend UrbanLabs, I told Eugeni Catalán about some of the things they do there - including the project using Scratch to introduce programming to kids. Eugeni checked it out and is setting up a course in his town. Read more here (in Catalan).
One Minute Catalan in the press
One Minute Catalan has recieved some very good press in Catalonia, from both El Punt and vilaweb. Click here for El Punt pdf and here for Vilaweb
Read what Mark Pentleton of Radio Lingua Network has to say about the coverage here
VirtualLingua extras
The virtuallingua extras webpage is now live. We have created this site so that the students of virtuallingua can have easy access to real material according to their level of English. The site takes advantage of all the great material out there on the web to give interesting, real language content to learners. Check it out here
Where we’ve been
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What 2008 has in store
Well it’s been a crazy start to 2008 - as you can see from the image above, we’re working away on various projects (& suffering from the flu) - Montse Guitar Sessions (now live), Better Your English Online, the Spanish sauce Spanish food& drink resource & Ana’s resource site for her new Spanish classes. The next couple of weeks will see the launch of our entry level English course for Spanish/Catalan speakers and we’ve a couple of more projects to put the final touches to. Keep watching this space…
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The countdown has started
The countdown has started to the new project - Better Your English Online. This is a collaborative project between cataspanglish and virtuaLingua
We’ll be going live on January 1st, 2008. In the next few days we’ll be explaining all about the new project. Bookmark Better Your English Online or subscribe to the RSS feed as all will be revealed soon.