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  • Drive – From Pawns to Players

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    Funny thing is never have I been so motivated to exercise! As I press the next page button on Kindle (thanks, my dear friend Dennis) and keep moving my feet on the ellyptical, my eyes are glued to the many concepts and theories in Daniel Pink’s Drive. I’m in the part he explore in more…

  • Still on Drive

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    Daniel Pink states “Greatness and nearsightedeness are incompatible”. He was making a point that in many cases, a carrots and sticks system leads to a short-sighted view of the world. People start focusing more on the rewards than in a broader sense of reality. You are into that addictive cycle of getting something back than…

  • Education Futures Open Course

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    How many times have  I failed for lack of time, work overload, my eyes being bigger than what I could accomplish? How many times have I promised myself to go until the end when I join some online endeavour? How many times have I failed to keep my promises and my wishes of professional development…

  • Our Drives

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    I´ve just started reading Daniel Pink´s latest book, now better than ever with the wonderful little gadget my dear friend Dennis Oliver gave me. During my 45-minute workout I can easily flip pages in my Kindle. Never has it been so pleasant to exercise in two such good companies, the book and my new digital…

  • Presentation Skills

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    Our brains are networks of information. We like to get information from multiple modes. We like to see materials in different ways. Presentations are related to activating senses. In good presentations, the audience has a sense where we are going, a sense of structure. Four Signposts of Presentation Skills Mastery (Jeary, 2004) Unconscious Incompetence –…

  • The Reading Brain

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    Thinking outside the box from our own disciplines. Children need to read their own thoughts while they read. They have to reach their potential. There’s no such thing as an ideal reading brain. How does the brain learn something new? Ability to form new connections – neuroplasticity; taking older structures and making new arrangement; each…

  • TESOL 2010 – Howard Gardner’s Five Minds For the Future

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    Intelligence – multiple, rather than singularThe mind is better thought of  as eight or nine different computers in your brain. The fourth or fifth country of the world is the country of immigrants. What kinds of minds do we need to cultivate in the 21st century?Globalization – global brands, electronic money transferThe biological revolution –…

  • Leadership – Attending a Certificate Program in TESOL 2010

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    Murphy’s 8 roles for Intelligent Leadership: Selector Connector Problem Solver Evaluator Negotiator Healer Protector Synergizer The first 7 roles are worked on in order to have the synergy of a group in which the parts work best together than when they do it separately. Consider this communication ladder that we find in any organization: contempt…

  • Google Swirl

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    I was just playing with Google’s swirl, a nice way to visualize images. It goes after the trend of more dynamic ways of visualization. Not that it is tremendously innovative, but it certainly adds a swirl fun to it. Have you tried it? What are your impressions?

  • 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…