E-Toys.ar: blogging4educators

Once again, starting on January 14th, TESOL is sponsoring a new round of free six-week online workshops for language teachers all over the world. This year there are over a dozen different and appealing sessions for you to choose from:

I joined EVO sessions for the first time in 2006 and have been involved in online communities of practice since then. I discovered a new motivating way of improving my teaching and gaining innovative ideas. I can’t stress enough the helpfulness and humility of every participant and moderator that I came across on the first sessions I took. In 2007, after a steep learning curve I was invited to moderate Blogging for Beginners, which was a tough but rewarding job. It taught me how to design an online course, anticipate potential pitfalls and prepare material to cope with participants’ needs. And above all, how teamwork can ease off anxieties and bring out a better outcome.

This year I’ll be collaborating with the blogging session (Blogging for Educators) once again. I hope to learn a lot under the leadership of Carla Arena, and an intercontinental team of experts: Carla Raguseo, Erika Cruvinel, Mary Hillis, Nina Lyulkun, Ana Maria Menezes, Cristina Costa and my dear friend Gladys Baya, who have put together a first-rate syllabus and a whole lot of rich and state-of-the-art material.

I’ll focus on two topics mainly: aggregators and tagging on the one hand and microblogging, which is still a mystery for me.
What I find engaging in these sessions?