Minsk State Linguistic University hosted the 6th International
BelNATE-IATEFL Conference 'Teaching English as a
World Language in the Information Age'. LearningTimes was pleased
to provide an online home for these live sessions, which benefitted EFL
instructors and specialists from all over Belarus and abroad. The
recording of this session can be found at:
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Session 4
Text Chat Log
Session 1
2004-11-03 01:01:42
Chair: Going to begin 2 mins
NoraDm: NoraD. The weather in Monsk is sunny and worderful.
Chair: Hi Nelly and Miguro
Chair: thank you, Alexander
Miguro: Hello everybody
Chair: Me too, Bee, but short sleeves T.S..:)
Chair: Sergei...we are ready
Chair: Good morning, Sergei! :-)
Chair: It is the Weekend here, so I'm glad I slept enough at last..7 hrs, :-)
SusNyrop: Hello Teresa
Chair: Yes, hear Alexander and Bee
Chair: Hi Sus
jchaupart: Hi everybody from Colombia
Chair: please let us know immediately...yes
Chair: Hi, Sus
Chair: bonjour JM
jchaupart: fine
SusNyrop: Hello from Denmark!!
jchaupart: and you?
Chair: fine!
Nelly: Hello everyone!
Chair: JMichael, Bon jour
NoraDm: NoraD. Hello to all newcomers.
jchaupart: bonjour tout le monde
Chair: Very clear, Sergei
SusNyrop: Sergei I hear you well, too
Nelly: bonjour! Ca va?
Chair: ca va bien, Nelly
Chair: Merci , Nelly
norbellam: Hi everyone
Chair: Welcome Norbella
SusNyrop: Bonjour Nelly, ici, ?a va bien, et toi?
Chair: Hi, Norbella, Happy to see you here
SusNyrop: Hola Norbella, i'm so happy you could join us today
Nelly: Manifique!
Chair: me too
norbellam: thanks
NoraDm: NoraD. Welcome Norbella..
jchaupart: Hola Norbella,
norbellam: bon jour
norbellam: Oui, tres bien
NataliaL: My name is Irina. I`m teaching English for speacial
purposes
Chair: hi norbella! Teresa in Lisbon. welcome!
norbellam: hi Teresa
SusNyrop: Hello Natalia.
SusNyrop: are you in Minsk?
Chair: i like the title very much, sergei
Chair: wonderful picture
helenz: Hi!!! I am Helen Zabello, a teacher of ESP in Minsk, State Linguistic University
Chair: Irina, hi..I am Buth, I also teach ESP in Kuwait University
ElizabethHa: good sound, Bee
SusNyrop: yes, wonderfully clear voice Bee!
Chair: Hello Helen, glad to meet you here today
MayaB: We hope to be able to blog after this session
Darya: Glad to join you in the work
MayaB: Hi Teresa
MayaB: How nice is to see the pictures of our interlocuters
norbellam: yes
Chair: I've always taught in a state school
SusNyrop: this is really cool
Chair: Kuwait University is the only State University in Kuwait. It was established in the early 1960s.
Chair: you are all so cute.Wow, you are fast learners.You managed to use the drawing facility available in this room..Cool
Chair: Just like me Darya!
SusNyrop: Hi Darya I hear you well (a bit loud perhaps)
Chair: Hi, Nora
Chair: thank you, nora! :-)
Chair: Nora is an Arabic name too
norbellam: Nice picture, Alexander
Chair: Hi Alexander..
SusNyrop: I agree Nora! This is a
absolutely wonderful way to learn
Chair: Welcome Alexander
ElizabethHa: Good earphones, Alexander
SusNyrop: Miguro, your microphone was a bit too loud
Chair: Could you tone down your mic miguro?
Chair: Alina, the mic, pls
Alexander: Thank you for complemeting my picture. I did my best.
Chair: What happened to the slide? I lost everything
ElizabethHa: Oops--no eraser--takes everything out.
SusNyrop: oops, did someone use the eraser tool?
Alexander: Nice to meet everyone today on-line.
SusNyrop: we all saw your faces
Chair: The eraser is not a good idea, bec. we always think it's for individual objects as in RL
MayaB: Avery rough idea
Nelly: Not really
Chair: wow! great, Nora!
Chair: mic, Nora
Chair: audio please
Miguro: FA blog is a web page , practically that is all I know
Darya: I have no imagination, I'm a newcomer here
SusNyrop: After this session, you will know more about blogs, Nora.
Chair: mic please, nora
Chair: Nora, no sound
Chair: Release the touch nora
Alexander: Alexander: it`s a kind of a journal on the net, I think.
Chair: slow connection speed in Minsk
Chair: That's the kind of audience we need for today with very little knowledge about blogs. good
MayaB: a log book = a journal?
Chair: yes, maya
helenz: It's my first experience of blogging.
MayaB: These words made their way into dictionaries last year
Chair: So we are all bloggers right now
Chair: May i add a word bee?
norbellam: log provider-
norbellam: ok, thanks
ElizabethHa: Blog provider
norbellam: missed the 'b' it makes a huge diffrence
Chair: it's here
MayaB: We got the page
Chair: have you got it?
Chair: I call it Blog Creators
Chair: I got it Bee
Chair: are you all on the page?
Chair: it's uploading
Alexander: Alexander: Not yet
Chair: right, buth
norbellam: yes
MayaB: The next one is loading
ElizabethHa: Bee--could you make a narrow Whiteboard for all?
ElizabethHa: Window > Tall, narrow
ElizabethHa: Click on Window icon above
Chair: have you got it now?
Chair: We got it
Chair: I made it narrow here
Chair: Proceed!
Chair: RSS
Chair: notice the time, uncover when a student posted an assignment, so no student can cheat , time is recorded in case their is a deadline for an assignment
Chair: XML format
SusNyrop: A handful of Webheads will join us soon
Chair: Great, Sus..:-)
ElizabethHa: Does it come to your e-mail?
Chair: Yes, it does, elizabeth
vances: narrowed the whiteboard?
SusNyrop: Bee, look at the view
ElizabethHa: Bee--click on Window icon
Chair: Hi, Vance
ElizabethHa: to left of Participants
MayaB: Can hear you well
SusNyrop: everyone, if you changed to minimam window layout, please change back to default window from the view menu
vances: lost audio
vances: back now
SusNyrop: I hear you well Tere
Chair: We can hear you in Minsk
chenyaodong: hello,all!
SusNyrop: Hi Anne - so good to see another Danish face ;-)
SusNyrop: Hi yaodong in South China
venny: How do you deal with Ads?
AnneFox: Hi all
SusNyrop: and Venny in Taiwan
Chair: Welcome Anne and Venny!
chenyaodong: Hi,Sus.Thank you a zillion. May I record the session?
Chair: Hi, Venny; is this our Venny? the Venny?
SusNyrop: the session will be recorded, Yaodong
venny: Hello, Buth
Chair: Hello, glad to see you..Venny
SusNyrop: Sergei will know where we can get the recording later.
Alexander: I do agree with what you suggest and find it extremely interesting.
SusNyrop: Karen - you're here now, we're now a lot of Webheads here!
Chair: you go beyond the classroom walls
ElizabethHa: lots of free writing, and authentic writing
venny: is there a seat limit?
Chair: No
SusNyrop: and world citizens
venny: Jeff has some prob to log in.
Chair: You are welcome, Venny
Chair: any comments so far?
Chair: Who owns the blog and for how long?
venny: Jeff is coming
MayaB: Welcome, latecomers
Chair: Hi, Karen..
AnneFox: Hi Teresa
Chair: What will be the best place to start a blog?
Chair: Hola Karen
Chair: Karen, can we meet today, please?
ElizabethHa: individual students can open their own.
chenyaodong: hi
ElizabethHa: Or the teacher can start one for students to use
kgarcia: Glad to be here!
Chair: Hello Everyne, Thanks for joining us today in Minsk
MayaB: Motivation is always a topical issue, true
Chair: hello jeff!
Chair: waves to Jeff
venny: Hello, Jeff!
Chair: waves to jeff from Lisbon
Chair: Hello Dong. Nice to meet you!
chenyaodong: most students in our college study english in order to pass exams.
Anatoli: how do I start blogging in class
Chair: Can I comment on this slide too, Bee?
SusNyrop: Hi Jeff - another Webhead!
chenyaodong: grid, i found my way in at last.
Chair: They are going to explain it
venny: Jeff just gets audo but not the window
jbcoops: got it
ElizabethHa: Chen--global practice is always a good way to enhance language proficiency
ElizabethHa: So it applies to improving for exams too.
Chair: Bee, can I show a page; an online Handout for my students on blogs
Darya: Unfortunately we have no opportunity to use it, but it would be really great
Chair: Hi Elizabeth!
ElizabethHa: Darya--do you have no Internet connection?
jbcoops: This topic is exactly like what I did with my students in Richmond 10 years ago. They were published internationally.
Chair: I started two blogs with my university students in Minsk
ElizabethHa: Be sure to minimize the window again, Bee
Darya: in my class - no!
Chair: i have it, bee
Chair: still loading
Chair: yes, we got it
ElizabethHa: Darya--you don't use it in class
venny: I have two questions? is it right time
to ask now?
ElizabethHa: It's like journal writing--done at home
Chair: yes
SusNyrop: many schools would have a school library where they have access to computers, too
Chair: Good remark Elizabeth
SusNyrop: hahah
SusNyrop: having fun!! That's not allowed
Chair: In my clases, creating blogs is a hands-on activity, we create them together
MayaB: And how about the trendy idea of edu-tainment?
kgarcia: Ho do we learn the technical requirements of the blog?
Chair: mine is small, liz
kgarcia: like how to have postings mail to you?
kgarcia: add linkages?
kgarcia: and all the potential features of the blog?
ElizabethHa: Trial and error is good?
Chair: the technical requirements Karen? What do you mean?
kgarcia: how to use the features available.
kgarcia: customizing it...
Chair: we will be doing this the second workshop
kgarcia: ahh, I see.
SusNyrop: Dear Karen - you missed part of the introduction , and we're getting to the details later
Chair: how much time do we still have?
Chair: What would be the best place to go blogging?
ElizabethHa: Bee--most of the middle of the page is blank.
ElizabethHa: Is that supposed to be?
Chair: 30 mins, I think
Chair: blank?
Darya: do you mean we can use it separately at home without any connection to the internet?
SusNyrop: I had to scroll down to find the postings Elizabeth
Chair: you can post to your blog by mail
Chair: no, we need a connection, Darya
SusNyrop: Darya, you might write in a text document at home, and save it to a disk you bring to school
SusNyrop: but that's risky because of virus infection perhaps
MayaB: Are blogs virus-protected?
Chair: I cannot project the page!
Darya: thanks for the explanation
venny: How do yo project a webpage here?
Chair: No, Maya, they're not
Chair: ok , Buth. let's proceed then
SusNyrop: they're online, this means you don't save anything on your PC. But I hane not heard about virus problems with blog tools.
Chair: venny: tools>web>send participants to...
kgarcia: Yes... in fact that is an interesting case....
ElizabethHa: You might get a spammer who sends to your e-mail.
SusNyrop: Only moderators can project Venny
kgarcia: Blogs are scary to many administrators
Chair: Tere, can we project actually, or is it only Bee who can?
Chair: we can Buth, I think
kgarcia: because speech is free and not controlled
ElizabethHa: The e-mail send is optional, however.
SusNyrop: moderators can project URLs
jbcoops: I taught 9th graders who read at 3rd grade level.... and had them write autobiographical incident papers using Bay Area Writing Project guidelines.
chenyaodong: my classes have started to post their movie comments/reviews on www.imdb.com. is that a kind of
blog, too?
Chair: thanks, Tere and Sus
SusNyrop: but please warn anytime you project a page
SusNyrop: it stops all I'm doing ecah time you project
Chair: we have 20 min to go
Chair: Sus, we need to project a few. sorry. close them as we go, pls
Chair: thank you Sergei...
norbellam: Yes, I can see both blogs
jbcoops: Buthaina... you misspelled "definitions"
Chair: Thanks, Jeff..will fix that later
venny: why do you use blogger?
Chair: yes
jbcoops: I wrote an article explaining the process in my article "Building 21st Century Collaborative Learning Communities" at http://snurl.com/netc1 ... students were published around the world, and it really led to higher motivation for writing.
kgarcia: course given in Learnintg Times... the Learning Classroom
SusNyrop: I now have 6 browser windows open, so I will bookmark them and close again to avoid overload
MayaB: Learner blogs is probably what most of us are interested in
ElizabethHa: The teacher-student blog might be used to help with grammar problems, corrections, etc.
ElizabethHa: Also brainstorm for a group project.
SusNyrop: How come that grownups are always asking for children's age, but kids are not supposed to know how old WE are?
jbcoops: You could also incorporate another program like Inspiration to help them brainstorm, organize, create their blogs.
Chair: Sus, they can know my age in my web page. i just want to aoruse their curiosity, or guess, and have F.U.N.
Chair: in class, I mean
MayaB: How about publishing highlighted Ss' mistakes? We don't want to be unethical. How can we make notes individually?
chenyaodong: Hi, Grid. How many of your colleagues from Belnate are now with us here
right now?
venny: How do you evaluate studets' works?
chenyaodong: Venny, that is a good question.
chenyaodong: i have over 100 students and I find it hard to correct their writing online.
Chair: What would be the best place to start a blog?
MayaB: Wouldn't some of the students prefer to stay anonymous while giving feedback on what was done at the lesson and how it was done?
Chair: I only made comments on mistakes once, bec. they were incredible. i make comments in private. i'm more worried about students writing and become as fluent as possible, not so much in mistakes. this is for maya
Chair: Venny, I give bonus points, since Ss are not required to do this kind of work online.
ElizabethHa: Sergei--they'll get to that
MayaB: Thanx, Tere
venny: how do you know their efforts?
therink: Hi all, just come in from teaching my grammar class.
ElizabethHa: Alex--have you noticed what?
Chair: bee, we have about 15 mins
Chair: please release the audio alexander...thank you
Chair: However, Venny, this semester in one class supported , i.e., for the Remedial class, so I give 5% on the Students all over work online, throughout the semester; I hope this answers your question, Venny
Chair: ok now
ElizabethHa: Maya--with freewriting, mistakes should not be corrected
ElizabethHa: Instead you want to comment on content/meanings
therink: It's Stephan, Yes I am in the far West of Germany
ElizabethHa: Mistakes/errors are an indication of where a student is in the language acquistion process.
ElizabethHa: So you want to address them in the class.
ElizabethHa: Instructed SLA
Chair: Hi Stephan!
MayaB: Elizabeth, I had portfolios of academic papers in mind
chenyaodong: to the point, Ha.
therink: Hi there, I hope I haven't mnissed too much
ElizabethHa: The academic papers would probably not go in a blog
jbcoops: I had a special education student who I started a dialectic journal with her mother via email. Within two weeks her sentence length doubled.
venny: yep, portfolio can do somethign like blog
venny: if paper can do, why blog?
Chair: Stephan, you have missed a lot!!! ;-)
SusNyrop: Welcome Stephan, I'm in Denmark, north of Copenhagen - is almost over, and then we have another soon after
Chair: But you can hear it later
MayaB: I was thinking of portfolios of academic papers, Elisabeth
ElizabethHa: You could have students post their writing in a wiki instead
therink: cool, how can I listen to it later
ElizabethHa: where you can comment point by point
Chair: the link will be posted later in the BelNATE YG, I think,
Stephan
ElizabethHa: Academic papers wouldn't go in a blog, I would think.
therink: Brilliant
venny: blog guest!
MayaB: I see, Elizabeth
SusNyrop: Stephan, I guess the recording will be available from the LearningTImes page
venny: why not live gust but blog guest?
jbcoops: I'm off to bed... past 5a.m. here... need at least a few hours sleep.
Chair: we got it!
SusNyrop: see you soon again Jeff
Chair: Goodnight, Jeff, and thanks for coming
Chair: bye, jeff! thanks fro coming
ElizabethHa: Maya--students could work on drafts of an academic paper--for content purposes, not grammar work.
Chair: Bye jeff. Thanks for coming
ElizabethHa: So teams might discuss the ideas
Chair: Interesting! Good Idea!
jbcoops: G'nite all... please take a look at the first couple paragraphs of http://snurl.com/netc1 if you get the chance.
ElizabethHa: Blogs are perfect for global comments, wikis for grammar comments
Chair: Yes, we have 12 mins
ElizabethHa: It's a good paper, Jeff
chenyaodong: http://beeonline.blogspot.com/2003/08/hello-everyone-i-am-new-mystery-weblog.html doesn't work here for me.
ElizabethHa: Blogspot is slow
ElizabethHa: And it shows up with weird windows for me today
ElizabethHa: I think we talked about that yesterday in session 1
Chair: www.handybits.com
therink: Sorry I forgot
Chair: www.audblog.com
AnneFox: Apologies I have to go. I promised faithfully to pick up my girls in 20 mins.
AnneFox: Bye
Chair: thank you for coming anne
AnneFox: Thank you
MayaB: Bye B. Many-many thanks.
Chair: bye, Anne. nice to have you here :-)
kgarcia: There is an audio blog here in Learning Times with the Puerto RIcan Studies Association...
Chair: Wow!!!
Chair: Bye, Anne, and thanks for coming
kgarcia: you could just record voice with your computer, make a wav file and attach it to the blog..
MayaB: Sorry B, I meant to say good-bye to A (Anne)
venny: you can upload pic file to a blog.
SusNyrop: see you very soon Anne!!
chenyaodong: I met Vance while he was in China in July.
kgarcia: yes, with pictures and sound you can make a wonderful ethnography
Chair: for stories she has written, Renata, i mean
Chair: is this Yaodong?
SusNyrop: adn I'm going to meet Anne in ten days!!
ElizabethHa: Yes, chen--we saw the pictures that Vance sent while with you.
ElizabethHa: It was great!
SusNyrop: yes - Yaodong Chen is with us here!
chenyaodong: Sus, Anne is in Danmark ?
SusNyrop: yes
norbellam: Sorry I have to leave. I have a class in ten minutes-
Chair: is chenyaodong Yadong in China?
Chair: it's worth taking a look at renata's photo blog
ElizabethHa: Bye Nora--good talking to you
therink: have fun, norbellam
SusNyrop: Bye Norbella!
norbellam: It was very interesting
Chair: i don't think so
chenyaodong: Eli, did you see vance eating vegetarian food with us?
MayaB: 5 min
kgarcia: Yes project it Bee.....
ElizabethHa: yes indeed
ElizabethHa: Tere--it may load very slowly, but try it
Chair: oh, ok..it's Eli..hi
kgarcia: YEAH show renata's work!!!1
Chair: http://infodesign.no/artikler/Videoblog_with_Blogger_211004.html
chenyaodong: thx, Bdieu.
SusNyrop: a Pod is a handheld player
chenyaodong: great!
therink: Pods are still quite expensive though...
NataliaL: disadvantages of blogs?
SusNyrop: sounds like an exciting toy - I think I will need one when they get cheaper
Chair: you decide! ;-)
kgarcia: that is a good idea, to have an overall plan for the blog!
SusNyrop: Disadvantages of blogs, a good question Natalia
MayaB: Great slides, Barbara!
Chair: Irina, after what we have shown, what do you think may be disadvantages?
venny: time consuming
Nelly: Don't you think that using blogs might distract students from learning english? What if students get so envolved with creating blogs, visual images that they forget about their primary goal, english?
Chair: i don't think so, nelly
Darya: rather exciting
jchaupart: Bravo Barbara, Teresa and Buth
Chair: voice please
kgarcia: hey, where is the comments sheet!!!
Chair: Thank you, Sergei and all the EFL instructors in Minsk for
listening and sharing
Chair: they *are* learning English through blogs, nelly
chenyaodong: very successful,Grid!
Chair: thank you, Sergei, Bee and Buth, and all participants
ElizabethHa: Nelly, If they are writing in English, they are learning.
Chair: Thanks, Bee and Tere
ElizabethHa: Nelly--you can require the writing part if it is not coming up naturally.
SusNyrop: who says learning English language would be their primary goal,
Nelly - if blogs give them a voice they will use it with the language they prefer :-)
Chair: Please, some one stop a recording in a couple of mins
Chair: ok
ElizabethHa: What is a board system?
chenyaodong: good question,venny!
Chair: yes...these are great
Chair: but you need more technical competence there
SusNyrop: who attacks, venny?
Chair: Someone forgot the Hands icon on!!
SusNyrop: advertisers?
chenyaodong: ads attack?
ElizabethHa: there is a lot of advertising.
Chair: venny, i'd like to give my opinion, but no time, sorry!
venny: OK
BobZwick: that may be a big problem with public blogging
chenyaodong: who controls the timing here?
therink: I think advertising is the necessary evil till we are funded well enough for systems without advertising
ElizabethHa: The moderators control the whiteboard Yaodong
chenyaodong: Barbara, this is a beautiful page.
therink: Or till we are all trained to set it all up ourselves
ElizabethHa: Or we pay for the blog
jchaupart: Tu es brillante, Barbara!
SusNyrop: well, we have ads everywhere, even students need to learn how to deal with them and not click on things th
ey don't need
Chair: venny, yes, do send your comments to our blog
SusNyrop: see you in room 4
therink: I agree Sus
therink: See u there
SusNyrop: bye for now
jchaupart: je te fais une grosse bise de fpelicitatiojns
Chair: merci JM
Chair: see you next room!!! nice trip! ;-)
venny: how can I get a room in LT? at least you have 3 rooms?
therink: I always knew the French were real cha
rmers
Exit: 2004-11-04 03:23:16
Session 2
Join: 2004-11-04 03:43:04
MayaB: I have some yahoogroups running - mslu, teflpark
Moderator: an the one we'll be using today
ElizabethHa: Are these mainly for discussion, Maya?
Moderator: and
SusNyrop: Ludmila, I think you will enjoy working with blogs
MayaB: Not only, info sharing as well, providing with interesting materials to review and boost voc, etc
Moderator: http://www.blogger.com
ElizabethHa: Copying and pasting address doesn't work
Moderator: CTRL+C
SusNyrop: not so many letters to type
therink: Yes it does, use Ctrl + C for copying
Moderator: Highlight it first and then CTRL+C
Moderator: yes
Moderator: probably
Moderator: and ctrl +V in your browser bar
SusNyrop: my Mac does not like copy & paste in here either
Moderator: We started creating a blog
Moderator: We've just started
Moderator: We are in Blogger.com
Moderator: great, miskies :-)
SusNyrop: will each of you start a blog?
Moderator: Minskies, i meant
Moderator: yes, sus
Moderator: Yes, Sus
SusNyrop: Minskies - how do people from Minsk call themselves?
Moderator: your nickname yesterday was very sweet, sus. I love it!
Moderator: great!
Moderator: ok
Moderator: I did a similar hands-on activity with my EFI-Study.com students in summer, and they liked it.
mrossetti: Just finished publishing my log, no problem and it was great!
Moderator: Right, Tere
ElizabethHa: http://ehansonsmi.blogspot.com is my blog
Moderator: wonderful Elizabeth
ElizabethHa: But I wanted to have a photoblog
ElizabethHa: I'll work on it.
mrossetti: http://projectnewsletter.blogspot.com/
Moderator: we are creating our blogs
Moderator: Are you copying Tere, or shall I do that?
Moderator: www.buzznet.com Elizabeth
Moderator: Very busy
Moderator: blogger.com/start
Moderator: yes
Moderator: no Tere, these are URLs of their blogs
Moderator: this is something else
mrossetti: marossetti@prodigy.net.mx Mercedes Rossetti
Chair: My question, is are we to create a page to show that?
Chair: A community
ElizabethHa: http://ElizabethHa.buzznet.com
Chair: I wasn't thinking of doing that, Buth
Chair: I know that it just came to my mind
Chair: no problem Tere
Chair: We are having lots of fun
Alexander: http://saalex.blogspot.com ( if I am not mistaken )
Chair: Great Sergei
Chair: Great, Minskies!
Chair: Thanks the Webheads!
Chair: Wow! I'm very happy!
Chair: Mercedes, how are you?
Chair: Alexander, your blog cannot be viewed!
Chair: Could you please check it out, Alexander?
Chair: OK
Chair: Sometimes you have to refresh the page Buth
ElizabethHa: You have two of my blog addresses above also.
SusNyrop: Mine is at nyrop.blogspot.com
ElizabethHa: My problem is in subsequent editing.
Chair: done
ElizabethHa: Pls check the Buzznet photo blog
ElizabethHa: When you have a chance--it's pretty.
Chair: I need the email addresses from Minsk
SusNyrop: my fastest email is at ....
Chair: Buth...your turn
therink: Sorry, guys. got to go and teach again. I have started my blog and will get my head round the more complicated things such as including sound and pics.
therink: It's been very interesting and motivating and I will keep at it.
SusNyrop: Please let us know about your progress, Stephan!
ElizabethHa: Alex--I couldn't find your blog from that address--could you give it
again?
Chair: Thanks, Stephan
therink: Will do. Thanks to the Minskies and the contributors.
Alexander: I `ll try.
Chair: Tere could you post the URL of the main blog please, here..
therink: CU all soon. My address is....
Chair: Congrats, Alexander
Chair: Congratulations!
therink: Take care ;-)
Chair: Buth, our Belnate Blog is http://belnate04.blogspot.com/
Chair: Stephan? How about you?
Chair: I have just invited Vance
therink: My blog is therinksblog.blogspot.com
Chair: OK
Chair: Great idea, Buth!
Chair: Wonderful!
Chair: Great!
therink: As you can see I have just figured out how to include pics. This is me after a hard days work!
therink: I'll give it another 5 mins. Can afford to be a little late...
Chair: OK
Chair: This is going quite well, bee and Buth! :-)
MayaB: Hi, we are all busy creating blogs
Chair: Good, Maya!
Chair: Any questions?
Chair: lol, Alexander
ElizabethHa: Alex--I tried your blogspot, but didn't get it open.
MayaB: What do we call people - blog members? Subscribers?
ElizabethHa: Is it new?
Chair: Alexander, could you please post the URL of your new blog?
Nelly: I did it!
MayaB: Bloggers? Blog moderators - any difference?
Chair: Nelly, URL, please
Chair: and email :-)
ElizabethHa: Maya--Blogger = someone who blogs
ElizabethHa: Blog moderator I am not familiar with maybe = Blog owner?
Chair: I like Stephan's blog!
ElizabethHa: Maybe it takes a while for the new blogs to show up?
Chair: yes we are
Chair: Stephan, I missed your link!
Chair: We are writing right now.
vances: Got my email from blogger...
Chair: Going to post in a few mins
ElizabethHa: What is Stephan's blog address??
Chair: http://therinksblog.blogspot.com/
Chair: OK
Chair: Wonderful...Give me a sign!
Chair: very loud Sus
chenyaodong: Hello,again!
MayaB: URL: busyheads.blogspot.com
Nelly: www.talkwithnell.blogspot.com
Chair: too loud, Sus
Chair: with lots of interfering sound
Chair: yes
Chair: yes, too, loud
Chair: no
Chair: please give me your email addresses Minsk
MayaB: Thank you for the invitation. My pleasure
Chair: done
ElizabethHa: Stephan---I invited you to Webheads on Sunday
Chair: yes?
Nelly: Sure,....
Anatoli: I have just created my blog!
Chair: We are doing fine
MayaB: Looking forward to it
Nelly: No, sorry
Chair: Nelly, check your email
Nelly: oops!
Chair: it's done
Anatoli: it's ....
Chair: OK
ElizabethHa: Maya--I left a post at your blog just now.
Nelly: Yeah, thanks
Chair: Please, proceed
MayaB: Elizabeth, how do I get it?
Darya: .....
ElizabethHa: Maya--You will need to go back and look at it.
ElizabethHa: I think Bee will explain that next.
Chair: We are back
Chair: Please, go ahead
Chair: Bee, have you added Darya?
Chair: I will
chenyaodong: Hello, Ludmila. Glad to meet you here!
Chair: I've just added you
Chair: Darya
ElizabethHa: Yaodong--do you have a blog already?
ElizabethHa: We have just been creating them.
Chair: Hello folks !
Chair: Pointer, Bee
Chair: welcome :-)
ElizabethHa: Sorry, do you have to re-log in with your PW first, Bee?
Chair: www.blogger.com
SusNyrop: If you forgot username and PW, they will mail it to you.
Chair: yes!
Chair: Clarify the task, please
Chair: are you all in the start page?
Chair: Ok
Chair: Congrats, Sergei :-)
Chair: www.blogger.com/star?
Chair: URL Sergei, please
Chair: www.blogger.com to sign in to your blog again
Chair: I 've been busy helping the folks in the lab
Chair: All right, Sergei
Chair: OK
Chair: Inviting members. Please continue
Chair: They are BusyHeads, Aren't they?
vances: I like that one
ElizabethHa: This busyhead updated her blog--yeah!
Chair: The name of Maya's Collaboration Blog, she just created
MayaB: busyheads
SusNyrop: when I now type www.blogger.com, I will get a new page at www.blogger.com/start where I see a link to my blog and the workshop blog
vances: I can hear you
Chair: good
Chair: yes,
SusNyrop: Hear you SO well
Chair: No i am not, I am also a Busyhead and a Webhead creating a page on this occasion
Chair: heheh
Chair: nice to hear you vance
SusNyrop: a BusyButh?
chenyaodong: yeah,clear voice.
Alexander: htpp://saalex.blogspot.com
SusNyrop: the Yes! feeling
anna: http://mslu.blogspot.com
Chair: yes. it happened when i opened my first successfully, Liz! :-)
ElizabethHa: Exactly! the YES! feeling
Chair: echo...echo
helenz: www.dreamerhz.blogspot.com
Chair: we hear Vance and Teresa
ElizabethHa: I'm doing my own blog--I have a couple.
vances: ahhh
Chair: Are you both talking?
ElizabethHa: This is ehansonsmi.blogspot.com
Chair: heheh, a bushead or a busy webhead Vance, or both?
vances: There are lots of posts at http://belnate04.blogspot.com/
chenyaodong: my email is ....
Chair: Now OK
SusNyrop: busy Vance, the newbies have opened their first blogs and posted their emails so that they get an invitation for the Belnate workshop blog list
ElizabethHa: Why do you need the e-mail addresses?
Chair: Elizabeth is echoing
SusNyrop: where did you get into trouble, Helen?
Chair: to invite people to participate in the collective Belnate blog
vances: Susanne, why not make your xanga link clickable?
Chair: Nice, blog Helen, congrats!
Chair: Nice blog! Good
SusNyrop: oops Vance, I need to find out how to create a clickble link then.
Alexander: Have you seen my blog ?
Chair: Sergei...please tell me when I can resume
MayaB: Alex, please, give your address again, I missed it
Chair: we got your Dashboard Slide
Chair: Please, proceed
Alexander: htpp://saalex.blogspot.com
Chair: Are you all on your own dashboard
helenz: It's a nice idea to create the collective Belnate blog! I am for it !!!
ElizabethHa: Alex--I got to it this time and left a comment.
SusNyrop: Hm - where do I find back to our
collaborative blog page?
ElizabethHa: Vance--how do you leave a picture comment??
Alexander: Thanks
Chair: Great, Helena, and hope you post there
ElizabethHa: Sus--is that belnate04l.blogspot.com
ElizabethHa: Sergei--can't hear
ElizabethHa: turn up the mike!
vances: Find a picture on the Internet
ElizabethHa: Let go of the key
vances: right click on it
SusNyrop: Sergei has been too busy teaching to learn how to blog himself
vances: get its properties
SusNyrop: busy
Chair: later, Sergei, when you have time, let us know your URL, pls
vances: post as follows
ElizabethHa: So copy and paste in the comment, Vance?
ElizabethHa: (No right click on Mac)
SusNyrop: SERGEI, release the mic
vances: <IMG SRC="picturelink.jpg">
ElizabethHa: aha
LudmilaL: I have created the blog and found everything with some help
Chair: yes, Bee
vances: Get the URL of the picture in the mac way
chenyaodong: yah
kgarcia: how can I resist you BEE?
vances: 13
SusNyrop: you need a silver bell teacher
Chair: just like in class, bee!!!
vances: 14
vances: 15
ElizabethHa: So I could transfer it from my Webpage or other blog?
SusNyrop: Anna was no. 14 to wake up
ElizabethHa: Give 'em the gong, Bee
jchaupart: tout va bien!
kgarcia: I am here....
kgarcia: keep at it BEE...
Chair: Yes!
kgarcia: a first in Learning Times!
kgarcia: everyone attending without multitasking...
ElizabethHa: Why are some comments on the main page and others are only linked through "comments"?
Chair: I believe it has to do with settings options, Liz. not sure
ElizabethHa: Oh--I'm not a team member, so I post a comment.
ElizabethHa: But any of you guys can add a post.
Chair: as long as we are members of blogger
ElizabethHa: Or maybe I just need to be a member of your particular blog?
Chair: I guess, liz
ElizabethHa: I am a member of blogger, but not of your belnate04 blog
SusNyrop: You can have more memberships
ElizabethHa: Bee--I don't think that is how it will work??
Chair: but Ii added you, Liz. You should have a message from blogger now
SusNyrop: you need to open your email and open the link to accept the invitation!
Chair: I've just added Sergei
Chair: Great!
Chair: Thank you!
MayaB: Thanks for promts, Susan
Anatoli: Thanks indeed!
Chair: I've also added alexK
Nelly: Not yet but I will
Chair: OK
MayaB: If I find s.o's blog of interest, can I sign up?
SusNyrop: You should do so now and we can see everyone on the collaborative blogroll
SusNyrop: accept the invitation I eman
chenyaodong: Here is my email : ......
jchaupart: .....
Chair: yadong, just added you :-)
helenz: It's my e-mail: .....
chenyaodong: thanks:)
Chair: same with jean michel, mon cher ami :-)
jchaupart: it's OK Teresa. I have just received the invitation
Chair: Helen, I have also added you :-)
NataliaA: Latecomer: You are great, you are heroes
chenyaodong: invitation hasn't arrived yet.
SusNyrop: Big surprise!
Chair: fabulous Bee!
Chair: thank you, natalia! very sweet of you :-)
Chair: yadong, you should be receiving it. you're in the list
SusNyrop: spread the good news - we blog!
Chair: Go back
Chair: 'Comments' Slide
NataliaA: Yes, to blog or not to blog?
Chair: that is the question! natalia
Chair: no sound, maya
Chair: thank you all! without you this wouldn't have been possible! let's all stay in touch!
Chair: yes! I hear you now!
SusNyrop: Great Maya! Your voice is clear now
ElizabethHa: I think if we work together on the blog, we can develop and expand on those ideas from the previous slide--how best to use blogs with our students.
ElizabethHa: Thanks so much, Webheads!
Chair: absolutely, Liz
NataliaA: It's definitely not only fun but it is very stimulating
Chair: Great, Natalia
SusNyrop: the famous TESOL EVONline workshop!!
Chair: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weblogging/
SergeiG: Thanks. It was great.
SergeiG: We are going to meet in 5 min. Room 5
NataliaA: Thanx a lot
ElizabethHa: We will put the announcement of the EVO session onto the blog.
Chair: sound went away
SusNyrop: These workshops are free of charge and very helpful - and all online
Chair: no sound again
jchaupart: no sound Maya
Nelly: Thanks a lot! It was great!
SergeiG: Dave is going to give a presentation. Motivation on and offline
SusNyrop: Maya - we missed you again
SergeiG: See you there
jchaupart: MERCI BEAUCOUP Barbara, Teresa & Buth!
Alexander: We `ll try to share the experince we ` ve got with others
SusNyrop: Yes, see you in room 5 soon for Dave's presentation!!!
kgarcia: Thank you, great presentation...
Chair: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_2005/ URL for the EVOnline sessions
jchaupart: Thanks for Sergei for inviting us in this workshop
LudmilaL: How can I contect you if I have forgotten my e-mail?
Chair: Thank you...must run to school...classes start in half an hour
Chair: thank you, everyone!
Chair: no sound sergei
ElizabethHa: Tere--that is still just the Call for Proposals
Chair: It was great to be here with you and share what we know
jchaupart: bravo Barbara
jchaupart: bravo
Chair: true, Liz
Chair: merci JM
SusNyrop: thanks a lot to Bee, Buth and Tere, what a great collaborative workshop!!
Chair: I must run
Alexander: Lots of thanks to blogteachers
chenyaodong: thanks again for the two sessions today.
Chair: :-)
ElizabethHa: blogteachers are good--we are creating the language for what we do, as we do it.
MayaB: I just wanted to repeat the info about our plans to publish proceedings of the conference. Our key note speakers are welcome to contribute. We promise to send the book as soon as it is published
SusNyrop: greetings to Jana!
Chair: http://alothman-b.tripod.com/webheads_belnate_blogwshop.htm
ElizabethHa: Maya--that is so good.
MayaB: Say hi to Yana
chenyaodong: good day!
ElizabethHa: Buth and Aiden and I will send you something.
ElizabethHa: (It's hard to publish a slide show, I think.)
Chair: i will, maya. thank you!
Chair: goodbye and thank you for your attention
ElizabethHa: Please e-mail me at .....
Chair: hope to read you in the Belnate blog
chenyaodong: when is the next workshop,Buth?
MayaB: The deadline is the end of the year, forgot to mention it. You can post your papers either to my email or Sergey's
Chair: Thanks
Chair: Thanks
Chair: Still underconstruction
ElizabethHa: Yaodong--immediately--you will need to exit and re-enter in session 5 from the homepage.
MayaB: XXX
Chair: XXX to you too, maya :-)
Chair: And Please Maya, and the other EFL instructors in Minsk, post me your pictures to my
email....
Chair: Yadong, is your Geo.com is working now?
Chair: thank you for that slide
Chair: bye, have to go to my parents now
SusNyrop: In certainly need a break too
SusNyrop: See you later!
Chair: In need of a short break, too
Chair: See you next door
Exit: 2004-11-04 04:57:54
