Hi all I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. At the SIG committee meeting we discussed this group and possible ways to encourage more activity and provide a...
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Evan Frendo
evanfrendo
Apr 30, 2010 6:40 am
Hi Duncan I would agree - a blog / forum tends to be much better. BESIG also uses Ning and discussion groups on Linked In, which might also be worth looking...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Apr 30, 2010 6:57 am
Ning is no longer free, so I don't think it's an option for us poor SIGs anymore, especially seen as there are better, free platforms around, i.e. BuddyPress....
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Apr 30, 2010 7:36 am
Sorry, I wanted to provide a link for those who are interested.... BuddyPress.org If you are *really* interested, sign up to the demo and give it a try! ... --...
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Hodgson, Graeme (Braz...
graeme.hodgson@...
Apr 30, 2010 12:17 pm
I think using a forum on the website is a great idea, provided there is the option of receiving alerts (weekly digest). Otherwise, the likelihood of members...
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Landerific
lklandry2002
Apr 30, 2010 1:31 pm
subscribing to a blog is a good way to find out about updates. use something like bloglines and just add the rss feed and whenever the blog is updated you are...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Apr 30, 2010 1:40 pm
I've dutifully clicked on BuddyPress.org, but can see no indication of where I should look for either a demo or a TDSIG group. Pauline...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Apr 30, 2010 1:50 pm
If you are really interested in a demo of BuddyPress, you need to create an account with buddypress.org <http://buddypress.org/register/>. The link was ...
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Maria Nilce
mnil@...
Apr 30, 2010 2:55 pm
It might be a good change! Things are chaging so quickly. Keep me posted. Maria Nilce ... From: Pauline Johnson To: TDSIG@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
May 1, 2010 5:03 am
OTOH, I can say from experience that once you have got a mailing list together, if you lose all the e-mail addresses, it's hard to get the collection back...
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Wendy
wendyahk
May 1, 2010 8:48 am
Hi there . the YLT Sig now has 700 odd members but when there is a discussion only about 6-18 people are ever active participants . the vast majority are...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
May 1, 2010 5:20 pm
Hi, Wendy is right that many groups have 100s of non-participants and a very small accidental bunch (half a percent) who carry forward some discussion. Some of...
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Wendy
wendyahk
May 2, 2010 7:53 am
Hi all . Bill I can talk to you (and anyone else who wants) about Michael Fullan!!! He came to Hong Kong to help the ESF (English Schools Foundation) and the...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
May 2, 2010 6:27 pm
Yes, I think there is quite a bit to be taken from what both Wendy and Bill have written. I must admit to feeling unmotivated to engage in a whole new process...
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Wendy
wendyahk
May 2, 2010 6:58 pm
The dogme group has recently gone thru the same process and it was amazing to see how many bods popped up . and it will remain open . but Scott has handed over...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
May 3, 2010 1:43 pm
Thanks Juliet, true that many of us are a long way from UK and never get to any such IATEFL get-togethers. We have no models for online groups and their...
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Wendy
wendyahk
May 3, 2010 3:35 pm
Hi Bill That isolation was something that the ESF realized in HK … teachers actually felt that they were being de-skilled after a few years of no CPD and...
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dominic mccabe
dominicxx2002
May 4, 2010 6:01 am
Hello Bill I used to contribute a lot but nowadays I feel so busy in my family and work life that I often feel too tired to contribute anything worthwhile. I...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
May 4, 2010 7:36 am
... It always seemed to me that in Malaysia there was an abundance of language, LT and education conferences, and this is how the people who taught and...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
May 4, 2010 12:15 pm
Yes, Splendid Isolation (Disraeli?) . . . not so splendid in our case, spread across the world! This is where on-line groups really become remarkably central...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
May 5, 2010 9:22 am
Malaysia has umpteen conferences but teachers here barely talk to one another in schools, at universities. This is a fact we can document nebbich. As one...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
May 6, 2010 1:41 am
... Yes, that is , well, depressing, isn't it? Sounds like Japan. About the only reason a department meets is to choose people to deal with the powers above,...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Jun 18, 2010 5:29 am
Dear TD-siggers Committee member and TDSIG.org editor, Barbara Roosken, has gotten our new website off to a great start with a multi-part reflection on the ...
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Alexander Sokol
thinkingappr...
Jul 15, 2010 9:03 am
Dear Colleagues We are about to start a Nordic-Baltic project on supporting teachers interested in introducing a thinking dimension in their work. A part of...
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Ray Parker
raymondo_p
Jul 15, 2010 12:32 pm
Hi - I don't know how helpful this will be or, indeed, if you're miles ahead of this level of research already but if I were you I'd be looking up Kathleen...
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Ray Parker
raymondo_p
Jul 15, 2010 12:34 pm
P.S. I think it would also be useful to contact Cambridgeesol and find out a) if, as far as they are aware, anyone has been using their eportfolio facility for...
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elba debat
elbadebat
Jul 15, 2010 12:47 pm
Dear Alexander, Kathy Bailey has done research on reflective journals. She has published them in various books and journal articles. One of the books is...
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thinkingapproach
thinkingappr...
Jul 17, 2010 6:41 am
Dear Ray and Elba Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I've already got in touch with Prof Bailey. Alexander...
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Saeed Al mubarak
control902
Jul 21, 2010 1:19 pm
hello welcome I made ablog Ineed readers who read and post comments This is my blog link http://learningstep.wordpress.com/...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Sep 8, 2010 7:36 am
This issue has 4 articles. I would like to save the pronunciation-related material that I had talked about earlier for a themed issue at the end of the year. ...
