Archive for June 2nd, 2008
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Evolving as a blogger
I have been a blogger since 2006. Everything started when I was a Hornby School participant in Sorocaba, Brazil. I first started using my blogs as a personal diary, I guess that is what everybody does. That is how blogging begins. Next, I started teaching and saw that blogs could be a tool to guide students and share interesting resources, such as, websites, references sites like dictionaries, online corpus. Later I started to see them as place for conversations, a venue for publishing students’ work, and finally I started having my students setting up their own blogs.
The picture I used, I got it in taggalaxy at my friend Carla Arena´s suggestion. I just typed the word blog and got this wonderful picture.
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
About me
My name is José Antônio da Silva. I am an English teacher in Brazil. At the moment I am based in Brasília. I have been teaching for over 15 years now. I like teaching all the four skills. I think all of them are challenging in their own ways. I hold a BA in psychology from the Universidade Católica de Goiás and an MA in TESOL from the Oklahoma City University in the United States. I think I am the kind person who is always interested in learning new things and I always try to work hard to improve my performance as a teacher and my knowledge of myself and of those around me. My dream project is to find a way of looking at global phenomena and use the insights from those far away realities to improve the lives of those in my community and my country. It may sound dreamy and unrealistic, but my psychology background tells that dreams are a serious matter.
