Webheads at WorldCALL2008 Home

Nina, or Nagora, has created a wiki for webheads awarded with the scholarship to participate at WorldCALL 2008 Congress in Fukuoko, Japan. Nina put a page for each awardee, all congratulations received on webheads' mailing list and the discussion there is hot about travelling to Tokyo before the conference, and where to go and stay there, learning Japanese( never thought about it in my entire life!!) This is just FANTABULOUS!!
Did I ever mention the criteria of the selection?
Our goal was to decide on individuals who met these criteria:-People who have been active in CALL (not just language pedagogy or administration) as evidenced by recent publications, presentations or on-going projects.
-People who exhibited in their "Statements of Purpose" a clear goal for their attendance at WorldCALL and a plan to disseminate the knowledge so gained upon their return home.
-People who represent a wide spectrum of geographical areas, balanced by gender and years of experience. Geographical selection was also, to some extent, determined in proportion to the number of applications from that area of the world.

Webehads Congraulations!

As usual, as a family, we always rush into sending deep heartful congratulations on occasions like winning a scholarship!The one which made my day is Dennis from Phoenix.An elegant card from Blue Mountain With these nice words:
As-salaamu aleikum, my friend.
Congratulations on winning a scholarship to WorldCALL 2008! You richly deserve this honor, and I'm already looking forward to hearing about your experiences in Japan.
Again, CONGRATULATIONS!
Dennis in Phoenix
He sent another one for all awardees which put a BIG smile on my face!
Shukran Jazeelan my dear Dennis.
All the rest of the congratulations are on the comment area, so as not to have a looong post here.Thank you everyone!

WorldCALL 2008 Scholarship Awardees

I DID it!!!
After a long tail of emails,checking rates, bookings and re-bookings, long hours of waiting, I won another scholarship in REAL life!!Below is my email to the webheads! I am much grateful to the wings they gave me!
I with more webheads ( read the names of the awardee on the list), have been selected among WorldCALL 2008 scholarship awardees because of what I have learned here, and still learning, and because of this magic, weird spirit that urges one to pay forward what he/she learns here. It's because of you ALL that I won this scholarship!
Thank you!
I am so excited that I will meet up with you all girls!!!Congratulations! Indeed, Webehads are every where, all year round! YEESS!Viva Webehads!
http://wc3scholar. info/
Hala ( off to start packing )LOL

Valentine's Day!

Cris warm voice has made my day!
Happy Valentine's Day, BaWers!

Food for Thought!

This is shared on the baw08 list. I think I have seen it before.I tried to dig into my delicious account without success.So, I decided to put here.It is the comment section that will add to this food of thought about creativity and educators.It also reminded me of this article, that when I ever read it, it just leave me wondering how much alike is the conditions and circumstances where teachers work around the globe!

Um abracos!

Webehads love hugging!
A Webhead friend, Monica from Brazil, is known for her 'um abracos'( a hug).I asked her to send me san audio to hear how can I say it.My kids are practicing saying um abracos to me at bed time!!lol

Becoming a Webehad 2008

Oh!How long I have been away from here? Fortunately, so many GOOD things were happening around.I hope I will have the time again to keep on posting about webheads heaven world!
I have turned up a very dear invitation form my dear friend, mentor and teacher; Teres to moderate a week at baw08 session.Too much for me to manage with family, writing, work and not an easy teaching load.
A 'Fantabulous' work has been done by Dafne and Teresa!Claps for the hard work behind the scenes done by all moderators and co-moderators!
Allah know how I miss it!!
Here is a screenshot of the EVO08 Kickoff.

WiziQ Session

Yesterday I catched up with WiziQ session with Vance and the gang.It was really F.U.N.I just loved the room! The only thing which was annoying was the echo and the delay of voice.Also, I found a difficulyt in reading the font on the chat area.However, it deos hold great potentialites to be used with students.I am glad I made it there!!

A Gift from Cris!

How on earth I forgot to document Cristina Costa's gift to me for my BC presentation?
These are some photos for the card which I took the minute I got it, with a photo for the cute card with the sweet words.Thanks Crisinah!

Rita's Presentation

Wow! I have been away since May! How cruel I was !
Rita Zeinstejer , a webhead friend from Argentina , contacted me when she was preparing a f2f presentation for teachers in her city about Web 2.0 tools, to have a look at my presentation in June. After several weeks of exchanging emails, she came with a great presentation and a it was
a blast!
Although I was a guest speaker, I didn’t speak! Technology glitches. The sad thing was that I didn’t follow my instincts. My 6th sense told me earlier that day to record your speech, which was already on Word, and send it to Rita. I checked everything and went on a test for my connection and microphone thinking everything will go well It didn’t! These things happen, but when you feel that you left out something, the sense of guilt floats on !