Carla Arena

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  • e-Learning – Don’t do This to your Online Students

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    More and more I find myself looking for ways, activities, resources that will help me connect with my online students in meaningful ways. It’s always a challenge, but when you hit it, the results are extremely rewarding. When you get your students to respond to a challenging, extra activity, heaven. Just like in any classroom,…

  • Teachers as Architects – Reshaping the Classroom

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    ” Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism via kwout “ I’ve been reading with interest what George Siemens (Via Joe Evans) has to say and we already know. However, it is always reinforcing to listen to what we feel is happening, but still don’t grasp how to tackle with the new realities. In…

  • Join #edchats

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    There are many educators and people in general who think Twitter is just for nonsense personal types of things. However, I must say that since 2007, it has provided me with insights, connections, resources that go much beyond “in the bathroom”, “at the airport”, “at home” types of prepositional tweets. If you start following the…

  • Organizing Books

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    Organizing Books Originally uploaded by carlaarena Interesting to notice how much the books represent who we are, what our drives, interests are, and still there are empty spaces for much more, for rethinking, regearing, redisigning ourselves every single day…Which books shoul we Hair pull works ridiculous http://www.santinelli.com/yie/mountain-west-apothecary-viagra.php something excited dollars products, viagra buy online perfect…

  • Happy Xmas 2009

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    Happy Xmas 2009 Originally uploaded by carlaarena I hope for a Xmas with more laughs and gathering than ostentationI hope for a true Xmas spirit with children running around the house and laughingI hope for a Xmas that unitesI hope for Santa’s generous spirit for all I wish you all a wonderful holiday season.

  • Testing Scribblar

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  • Online

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    This topic is certainly dear to me. Just making a retrospective of my own blogging, I can see how many times the words connections, interconnected, relationship, connectivity appear in my writing, not to mention my talk. I can see how connectivity is part of my life in every sense of the word. In the past,…

  • WooHoo! Surfing Google Wave

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    The wave is huge, here to stay and to change the way we communicate. I was glued from the start. when I got there, of course there was a Webhead Wave! More than expected from this wonderful group of international educators who are always taking the lead when it comes to what’s emergent, new…I had…

  • Rewarding Networks

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    Yesterday was delightfully exciting. Never have I worked so hard and intensively in different projects for the school I work for and my volunteer work in the communities I’m part of . No complaints. All the effort has been paying off. First, I got to know that our proposal to present in the TESOL international…

  • Very Talented Co-Workers

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    Day 273 – Very Talented Co-Workers Originally uploaded by carlaarena Jazz it up Event. My friends at work, besides being great teachers, are amazingly talented. They sang for a full auditorium of EFL adult students, entertained them, engaged them and told them a bit about the history of jazz. Amazing guys!I am proud to work…

  • Cool Tool of the Week – DeepZoomPix

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    http://bit.ly/BBd8Y Microsoft is testing an online tool called DeepZoomPix, which gives us an interesting overview to our photo albums. I chose to connect it to my Flickr account and grabbed some of my food photos. Here’s the result. Pretty neat way of visualizing images. Which of your pictures would you choose to test DeepZoomPix? Would…

  • Blogging with Students in 5 Tips

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    Much has been said, written and commented about blogging for pedagogical purposes. However, never has it been enough. There’s always more reading, more experimenting that can take blogging with students to another level. That’s exactly what a group of new educator-bloggers has been discussing in an online session, Webtools4Educators. So, if I were to give…

  • Empathizers, Educators

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    I must confess that I tend to go against the new buzz, trendy book, film, fashion. Seems even a bit paradoxical as I work with Ed Tech and am always tuned to the latest developments in my professional area. However, I try to give books, films some time after the excitement of their release to…

  • Facilitating Online 2009

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  • 7th Casa Thomas Jefferson TEFL – Driving Development

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    This year our school seminar has meant interconnectedness for me. I’ve connected to some people I follow in Twitter and some of my followers in Twitter were really kind to contact me. What a blast as it shows exactly what Erika and I were trying to present, Digital Magic in Professional Development. We could exemplify…

  • The Kind of Needed Digital Literacy

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  • Images4Education in Classroom2.0 Live

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    “ Images4Education and EVO-Special Guest: Carla Arena – via kwout “ Yesterday I had the big pleasure to be with the girls, Peggy George, Lorna Constantini, Kim Caise and Steven Hargadon in a live session of Classroom2.0. A nice crowd probably hungry at lunch time wanted to know more about the Electronic Village Online and…

  • Web 2.0 Cool Tools Presentation

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    On June 5th, I was gladly to surprise to see a nice little crowd in the Auditorium of the Binational Center I work for. I presented a Potpourri of cool tools for the classroom for the Braz-TESOL regional chapter. A very motivated audience of friends and new faces who are willing to take that step…

  • Cool Tool of the Week – My Studiyo – Creating Online Activities

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    Just tested My Studyio because a tweet from @GrahamStanley and @NikPeachey. What a great surprise as tomorrow I´ll be presenting about cool tools for the classroom for a group of Brazilian educators. I liked My Studyio because it´s user-friendly and very easy to register. You can have multiple choice questions with an attractive layout adding…

  • The Google Wave

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    I’m here watching Google’s Wave demo to be released at the end of the year. WOW. As an educator, I couldn’t help but see the applications it could have in our classrooms. It’s just like having a single platform to perform many many digital tasks we do in different online spaces. Of course we’ll have…