I just played back the faces of my PLN network. Hello Little World Skypers and Global Classroom rose to the top.
Katherine Zablatnik has been quite helpful and has done her bit. She has already spent hours interacting with students in Kerala at the last Nanma Skype conference at Trichur. Besides, she has also spent quite some time helping my learners work with Skype on Sept 14, the Childrens Day in India.
Childrens' Day Festival 2011 MTHSS, Kaloor
Michael Graffin too has already made his contribution. He had co-inaugurated my Learn English Online Wiki project.
Inauguration of Learn English Online from Sebastian Panakal on Vimeo.
Michael Graffin on Skype with our Finance Minister Mr. K M Mani
The function is on a Saturday; we all know about Saturday night fever. Time conflict and Saturday being a holiday dissuaded me from offering an expert trainer from abroad.
Luckily, Anne Mirtschin, came online. I made a plea for help. A warm digital hug to her grandson, (superman William) and I clinched the deal. Thanks are due to Lincy and Dominic who made it a cordial family chat. I always knew I could count on Anne. She really is, to borrow Steve Hargadon, a global collaborator extraordinaire. Yes, I too had a lucky chance to teach her students.
Sebastian, I am so glad that I happened to be online then. We have just returned to school after a long summer break. During that time I have spent a lot of time with my family who were visiting from London and Sth Africa and I have not been on skype much at all over January.
ReplyDeleteThank you for inviting me to speak with the students. I loved meeting them, learning about them, seeing their uniform and loved hearing them sing to me. I wish my video camera would have worked as seeing each other makes it even more special. Thanks for sharing such a special occasion with me, Sebastian
Anne, you are a wonder. You have induced so many teachers and learners to embrace Web 3.0 technologies. Thank you for sharing your experience (and your superman) with us.
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