http://lexitronics.edublogs.org Researching, teaching and learning English vocabulary Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:33:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When we set up our courses at http://lexitronics.org, we fairly classically and perhaps hopefully included a 'donate' system. We also decided to send 50% of any donations to charity, though we were a little unsure as to how to do this and who to go with. We wanted ideally to ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/lexitronics-courses-and-donations-to-esk/ Although Steve never met Hugh, he has heard a lot about him from Nilgun and John! Enough indeed to send the following: Just saw a documentary on BBC WORLD about the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hugh's untimely departure makes these two verses quite relevant, even though they were written over a ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/for-hugh-cory/ Hugh Cory, who suddenly passed away last year, was a colleague of John and Nilgun's in Cyprus. After Hugh left Cyprus he co-founded the ESK School in Burma. We're delighted to hear that Karolina Gacke, a friend and colleague of Hugh's from Poland is continuing his work there. You can find out more about this ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/esc-school-in-burma/ Mention here of Steve and Ali's BNL2709  in the new Longman Pearson Reading Series 'The World of Reading'. [caption id="attachment_158" align="alignnone" width="501" caption="WorldofReading"][/caption] http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/12/world-of-reading/ Here's a site that some of you may enjoy investigating further: http://www.valodas.com/ A student needs to register, but it is free.  You then download the software (it is PC-based, with Windows, Linux and Mac versions.) The students then indicate their native language and the target language (there is an L1 English to ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/09/valodas/ The walls of our classrooms are finite, but the walls in Web2.0 go on forever...  It made me think of a really simple Web2.0 tool called Wallwisher.  WallWisher posters can contain any media element: picture, graphic, video, audio, etc.) and, furthermore, it's free. Here is an example of a WallWisher 'project' I ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/08/wallwisher/ The Ways with Word Courses - which currently comprise Write Like an Academic and LexiCLIL are both open to individual users for no fee at present at http://lexitronics.org. More courses are in the pipeline for the new year, including, hopefully, the next in our series of eReaders.  Updates will follow! http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/06/ways-with-words-courses-2/ Will update the links shortly - but just to note that the Lexitronics Scribd account - http://www.scribd.com/lexitronics seems to be working exceptionally well as a publishing base for various Lexitronics research and articles. Really, all credit to the Scribd community for an outstanding project... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/05/lexitronics-scribd/ Now that we have opened our Write Like an Academic and LexiCLIL online courses at http://lexitronics.org a very obvious question is  what is LEXICLIL? LexiCLIL  suggests an approach to CLIL (Content and language integrated learning) that is heavily driven by a lexical focus . It is also strongly corpus-informed and as with most ... http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/10/01/143/ Take a look at the September 2009 issue of the Reading Matrix online journal at: http://www.readingmatrix.com/current.html, where you can view and download John and Steve's article on the development of eReaders. (http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/sept_2009/eldridge_neufeld.pdf). http://lexitronics.edublogs.org/2009/09/30/lexitronics-publication/