Conference with Michael Coghlan
January 27, 2007 by joseantoniook
The BaW07 (Becoming a Webhead) experience has been a great opportunity to learn about new tools for using in the language classroom. This morning, as part of the presentations in BaW07, we had a conference with Michael Coghlan. The subject was voice tools and its applications in education. It was a really interesting event. For more an hour Mr. Coghlan spoke to an enthusistic audience. While he spoke, he also carried out a very instructive powerpoint presentation on the topic. Participants were also istening to Mr. Coghlan and exchanging text messages about relevant issues concerning the topics being presented. He reviewed some voice tools that can be useful in a language classroom. One them was hipcast, which he used to record a message in his blog. He also gave us participants very sound advice in dealing with technology. One that is worth mentioning is the one of trying to use/understand just some of the tools reviewed, due to time consuming nature of this enterprise. He is absolutely right on this because it does take a great deal of effort to get familiar with a new tool. To give an example, this is my first posting on the Yahoo 360 blog host and it took me some time to decide trying it and some time figuring out how to use it and I know that I still have a long way to go. However, to quote so many moderators and interesting people I have been learning with “learning is a lifelong process” and I am up for grabs.
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Jose – great to see that you have started this blog, and to read your positive comments about the session in Yahoo Messenger the other day. It’s always nice to read positive comments about sessions you run of course, but more important is to publish your thoughts so it can become part of the collective body of knowledge for others to discuss and benefit from. If you just think these thoughts and don’t share them they don’t have quite as much power! And it contributes to the ‘lifelong learning’ process.
Dear Jose Antonio,
You are definitely getting “hands-on” experience as your fingers never cease to create wonderful displays of your learning. Congratulations on another one and thanks so much for sharing. You are a future co-moderator in the making!!!
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I am just leaving a comment to test this feature. I would appreciate to have some comments in this area.
Cheers
Jose
Hi Michael,
It is a great plesure to have youposting onmy blog. The session, like I said was really interesting and I have gone back to the presentation to review some of its most insightful points.
Thanks a lot.
Dear Berta,
I am glad you liked my blog. This is trial for me with this blog host. About being a moderator, I have to work hard for that. All the moderators are so fluent and I still need tolaern a lot, but I would love to help.
Big hug
Jose