I just had my birthday. Yup, May 9 is the day I was born. Well, I'm not one of those fun party people, so I usually celebrate it with my close friends and family. Eating out or going to the mall :D

However this year I feel like I'm having a huge celebration! Cause aside from the wonderful wishes, the beatiful presents I'm getting from people around me plus millions of kisses from my students , I've got 2 beautiful gifts!

1 . The ETAS journal with my article in it has finally arrived! Thanks to Vicky Loras ( @vickyloras ), Ceres Pioquinto and James Taylor ( @theteacherjames ). It was my first time ever to have something I wrote printed anywhere, so not only was I thrilled, I was flying to the moon! The feeling of seeing my name written there is pretty awesome. It wasn't that easy actually. Ceres had me rewrite and put more information in it. I was so glad that she as well as Vicky were very patient toward me. I couldn't do it without them!

http://eltchatpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2012-05-16T01_59_03-07_00

I honestly thought I sounded squeaky and kind of (excuse my language) smart ass by saying 'you know' all the time, but I was seriously nervous when Vicky called me that day. I remember I was just coming back to school from swimming activity. I did have an appointment with Vicky but I was a bit late because one of my student needed to be accompannied as her parents were late. So I wasn't really ready for it. But hearing my voice like that, especially after James has put his great mind on it, is incredible.

This year I feel very lucky and blessed! Having -finally- learnt how to dive in the open water, spending a great holiday in Sri Lanka. Planning a trip to see the Emirates stadium and touring London (if my visa is accepted-crossing my fingers) and this 50 years reunion of my highschool. I have so much to look forward to. Thank you everyone for all the Birthday wishes on my FB, twitter, YM, Gtalk, Whatsapp, Skype, the messaging and the call. I'm beyond happy to have you all in my life! Here's to another year of beautiful moments!

Aza Aza Optimistic!

Introducing our kids to our national heroine 

Raden Ajeng Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904) is one of the Indonesian national heroine in Indonesia. She was a prominent Javanese and was a pioneer in the area of women's rights for Indonesians. The book of the letters that Kartini had sent to her friends in Europe titled Door Duisternis tot Licht (Out of Dark Comes Light) was published in 1911.In 1964, President Sukarno declared R.A. Kartini's birth date, 21 April, as 'Kartini Day' - an Indonesian national day.

Though it’s originally celebrated as female’s emancipation day, nowadays Kartini’s day is more about celebration of Indonesian culture and heritage. It has become very common for schools, state’s offices or even private offices to celebrate the day. The common way to celebrate the day is by using Indonesian traditional costumes. Back in the day people would just use Javanese traditional outfit but as the day become more nationally celebrated, everything extends, from the outfit to how people celebrate it.

This year my school celebrate this day too. There are 3 agendas to be done this year; singing Kartini’s song, fashion show and riding traditional javanese horse carriage called ‘Delman’.

As we had already introduced Kartini’s song in the classroom, our students could sing the song together, though the older class (K1) had a better prononciation and memory towards the lyric than the younger ones, but many parents who joined the event sang it too.

The fashion show is one of the highlight of the event. Parents had planned their children’s outfit for days by making, buying or renting the outfit. The children came with variety of Indonesian traditional costume, all looking lovely and amazing. Parents took a day off just to come to school to see their children’s performing on stage. To them and the children it has become some sort of family day too. One by one, the children will walk on the run way, showing their incredible outfit to the audience and judges. Though it may looked like a beauty contest, but this kind of activity will develop our children’s confidence and love to our country as they need to know and state the origin of their outfit during the show. I feel so proud watching them looking great on the stage and getting to know their root. Seeing their efforts on coming up with the beautiful traditional costumes clearly has shown their support on carrying our national legacy. At the end of the day we chose the best performance from each class and gave them presents, but everyone participating was also rewarded with a goodie bag.

The ‘Delman’ ride was one of the thing that was waited curiously by all as not many had the chance to take a ride on it yet. We hired one traditional javanese delman to come to school and got our children to ride it in turns. Though some of them were afraid of the horse, many were so excited and wanted to ride it again and again. Even in the hot sunny day, they still had fun riding it around the housing area. I mean, where else could they do this (riding a delman with their classmates in a traditional costume) if not at this kind of celebration?

In the end, everyone had fun! Parents, students and teachers shared memorable time and more than just an annual event, Kartini’s day has become one of our way to build our love to this country, Indonesia. 

Recently, during  Parents / Teachers’ meeting s, I have been asked by a mother about how Montessori can be a based on curriculum. She seems to think that it is a bit strange to have an educational system based on everyday life. I smiled at her thought, but I could relate to that. It’s exactly how I used to think so too. Maybe it’s the culture thing too, to believe that education should be something serious and far from home. That it is something to be done in a special place, certainly not at home. 

Montessori is relatively new for parents in Indonesia. We are very accustomed to the classical environment of teaching where teacher is the central to the lesson. And most are still believe that the learning process is supposed to involve sitting in a classroom, workbook, test etc. That is why when it parents seeing children doing practical life activity in a classroom and actually being observed on it, it can be a bit strange sometimes, and I do understand that.

Strangely, we have been said that education should start at home, yet not many realize that it is more than just a saying. More than just moral lesson, the introduction to writing, reading and math can be easily performed at home. And that is why in Montessori we have a Practical Life section. 

Children like to play, and they absolutely love to copy what their parents are doing around the house. This could be a great way to teach them the basics of writing and math. 

Cleaning a table is a fun way to teach them to draw a circle for the basis of writing letters like 'C', 'O' ,'P' etc. By making circular moves, we have taught them the core of their writing skills. Or during cleaning windows, the line pattern we make using the rubber squeegee on the window can help them in making straight lines.

Pouring water from a jug to a glass  can also be a good exercise for concentration and early math. Because when we ask them to pour it to a certain point on the glass, they will start to grasp the concept of measuring. Having a rote counting when you ask them to take something from the table like spoons or napkins are also good way to introduce math. 

The thing is we should not limit the chance for them to learn. Because more than just the introduction to reading, writing or math, having our children to perform variety of practical life around the house is also a good way for parents to bond with their kids and produce a happy environment for them. Make our house as a place for practical life and our children shall be bright ones.

ps: I shall write more about learning at home here soon :)

I have to admit I was very disappointed to have missed #teachmeet, but I do know that it was inevitable with the whole poor connection and my tight schedule. So supposed I had performed my micro presentation, this is what it would look like J 

Children are visual. It is easier for them to learn when they can see the real object, to feel and to touch. And that has been our motto; To teach from concrete to abstract concept. That way they can grasp the lesson more than just memorizing them. That is why we use things like short beads stairs, golden beads or small number rods to count in math or sand paper letters and small moveable and Large movable alphabet to learn to read and write and so on.

One thing we’ve been doing here is having a topic on our teaching. As English is the language that we use here, we are obliged to teach new vocabulary to our children each week. But introducing them to new vocabulary can be a challenging one cause not only they have to be introduced to new words in English , they need to know the things too as most of them sometimes aren’t familiar with the words nor the things, for example when we’re talking about Fire Station, most of my students have never seen a fire extinguisher or seeing a fireman before. Or during our Train topic. I found out that most of them have never ridden one. So it can made the introducing part a bit difficult. So what we are trying to do here is wrapping the topic with a theme, surrounding ourselves with the theme during our teaching in hope that by the end of the week, they have learnt more than just new vocabulary , they have learnt new experience.

One of the thing we can work on is the art project. We try to make our art project to be related to our theme, like making hot air balloon for our Airport topic or Fire extinguisher for our Fire station topic.

Other thing that I have always loved doing is the drama play thing. I believe the whole experience over the topic can be taught here. So I’ve always planned the drama play to at least match the whole experience. Like during the Bank topic, I had them going to a Bank, fill in the saving form, lining up to meet the teller then had their saving book stamped by the teller. We even made our own passport and aeroplane tickets for our airport drama play. Or during the fire station topic, I dressed them in fireman’s outfit and with the fire extinguisher that they have made on their own before, tried to put out a fire. This also has given them the idea on what is the purpose of a fire extinguisher.

During math, we use objects from our topic to count, like using matches box for them to count during Fire station week or small toy bus during our bus station topic. Or here we have shells to be used on explaining tens and units during seaport topic.

All in all, I’ve found that the theme is working when I see them playing arounf the playground. My class usually has a theme for they playtime too. After we had fire drill as our drama during the fire station week, I found them playing it over and over again, to the point that it got one parent a bit shocked cause they were all shouting ‘Fire’ but also remembering to walk out the building in order and not running. That parent told me that he thought they were for real! Or lately I’ve noticed they like to have hospital as their playground theme, complete with having ambulance , injection and a worried mother taking the child to the doctor! (this one, i didn’t teach them though). So I’m so happy to see that not only they are introduced to new vocabulary that they can use very well in their playtime, they also have got the idea on the topic given. And to me this is rewarding

A tale of my journey in learning (my take on the challenge)

Know what? I’ve never wondered about my history in learning English. Not until of course Brad ( @brad5patterson) set yet another jaw dropping pondering on his new challenge; How and Why we learned foreign language.

I was raised in a house where 2 languages are spoken; bahasa Indonesia and Javanese language. I was pretty much heard those language being used among my big family. Though I’m not a fluent Javanese speaker, I do understand and ocassionaly speak it.

My beloved late grandfathers were both fluent in foreign language. One was fluent in Japanese and the other was fluent in Dutch. Both were also good in English, as well as my father. Til now I have always regretted the fact that I used  to refuse being taught to speak Japanese and Dutch. Because I was already mesmerized by the beauty of English.

Well, not the language itself at first actually. Since I was a child, I have loved music! My father collects a lot of cassettes because he loves listening to them at home. One of the first song that I really love was “Born to love you” by Queen. I was so eager to sing it but I didn’t know the lyric. And as I was (and still) a very clumsy girl, my father has always told me not to mess with his collection, so what I did was I tried to listen to the lyric then sang it based on what I’ve heard. You can bet I made tons of mistakes when I finally get my hands on the lyrics! But that was actually the drive that got me doing it again and again! I was determined to sing all my favorite songs.

One of my late grandfather who was a columnist for a women’s magazine here in Indonesia found out that I love singing and talking in English so he used to get me, my sis and my cousins to record ourselves talking , singing and reading poems though not all were done in English. But it got me love English more! This time cause I had found my first love! He is none other than Gordon summer or Sting. When i was a child, technology wasn’t like now, so of course I couldn’t google his lyrics everytime I heard his new song on the radio. But it pushed me to try to listen better to his words.

But as much as I love using english, I had never had the guts to use it outside my house. Until our school went to the biggest Islamic exhibiton here in Jakarta. We were trying to find out where one of the artifact was exhibited and there was nobody to ask but an old foreign woman, So I collected my nerves and asked her. When she understood my question and answered it, that was the moment when I knew I have to learn more about this language.

So there I was. Eager to learn more. My father asked me to listen to English songs and then tried to capture them then wrote down the words, later on I got to check what I’ve heard on the real lyrics. It was such a fun game for me! I also watched a lot of TV show like “Mork and Mindy” , “ Bonanza”, “The Cosby show”,  “Perfect stranger” and “Little house by the prairie” and tried to understand the story without looking at the subtitle. I  think what got me falling in love with English is the variety and diversity of the language that is so different from bahasa Indonesia.

When I was 14, my grandfather gave me my other love: Charles dickens’ “A tale of two cities”. It was hard for me to understand the whole sentences in the book, but once I got a hold on the story, I learnt that you don’t really need to know all the words to understand the story. And of course got me wanting to read more.

When I was young I had never learnt English other than what I’ve got in school actually. I had never taken any course or lesson. You see, my house was far away from the city. I had to travel around to the other side of the city just to get to school, and back then there wasn’t many good courses except in the centre of Jakarta. But then again, my late grandpa didn’t think I need to, since he believed that he could provide the lesson that I need, and I had great teachers in school too. In fact the course that I’d finally taken was French! It didn’t last long since the French culture office where I took the lesson was far away from my house. I had to sleep over at my aunty’s house whenever I attended the lesson! Yup! That far away J 

But I am lucky now that not only that I get to use English every single day, I get to learn a lot to from my PLN here. So though my English isn’t as fluent as many of those who take this challenge, but I’m still able to communicate with you guys and have got you to actually (hopefully) understand what I’m saying.

 I am proud to say that I am still learning and will never stop. Oh, and sometimes soon, I’m going to try to take that French lesson again ;) . So thanks a lot Brad for taking me back to those good old days!

Ps: I actually cried typing this as I miss my grandfathers so much now, but happy to have them in my life too.

Recently I did a guest post on Elinda Gjondedaj's blog ( http://magicineducation.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/schools-from-around-the-world-education-in-indonesia-via-yitza_sarwono/ )  that got me realize something, that my beloved country has got more than what I’ve written! So, here I try to pour what’s more on my mind about it.

Indonesia is a multicultural country. We are made of many ethnics, cultures, races and religions. Our government here embraces all the differences as we celebrate many special days. From the religious ones, all the way to the national days.

Our school is embracing the tradition on celebrating almost all the big holiday. Since our students are also come from various backgrounds, we like to introduce our rich culture to our students. This will be a one of a good education for them too. To respect others and making them feel like they are belong to this one beautiful community.

The two biggest religions festive seasons in Indonesia are Lebaran or Eid Mubarak and Christmas. And of course we celebrate those two events in school. It is amazing how parents and students are excited to celebrate them even when it’s not their own religious holiday. We will introduce them to the holiday but without trying to push them on one belief. This is exactly what we want them to learn, that no matter their beliefs are, they are part of his school and we don’t see any of them by where they go to pray.

Aside from that we also celebrate their difference in the richness of their culture and races. That’s why we also celebrate Chinese lunar new year and Kartini’s day (which is a celebration of our heritage). In Kartini day, children dress in our traditional costume from their native land. I love this day as all parents will try so hard to make their children look their best! And then we’re going to sing Indonesian traditional and national songs.

Whenever I see my students playing together in the indoor or outdoor playground or during Gym time, I can’t help myself but feeling so proud and happy that they are able to appreciate their differences and seem not to notice that they come from different background. The last time we went on a field trip to Sea World Indonesia, my class walked together through all the journey; talking, chatting, seeing the sea creatures and even taking the boat ride on the open sea together as one unit!

I know that all school in Indonesia are embracing this way too, to teach their students to love our country and all the people in it no matter what their backgrounds are. And our government even has put the character building as one of the main aspect in our teaching plan.

So there it is; Indonesia, one big box of colorful crayons! And I’m so proud to be a part of what makes the next generation proud of our diversity.

Aza aza Colorful!

my Life in 365 days

Wow! I cannot believe that 2011 is almost over! This year brings me one of the greatest roller coaster ride in my life! and if you know me, you know that I love roller coaster, as well as my life!

I have grown so much as a person as well as a teacher this year, as I experienced many things.

1. I started to regularly join #eltchat this year which has given me so much to make me always want to learn more and be a better teacher.
2. I started this blog; Gotta thank #eltchat too for that, because really if it hasn't been for it, I would never have the courage to start writing.
3. Joining the iTDi's family. this has been one of the greatest highlight of not only my career but also my life! Still cannot believe they see me as worthy enough to be involved!
4. Knowing and networking with great PLN I meet on Twitter and Facebook. Some of them even become my good friends now! Wow! Isn't technology rocks?
5. Embracing the challenge of trying out dogme in my Montessori Kindergarten classroom. 
6. Taking part of #TeachMeet Webinar. I was nervous to the bone! Good thing it was only 3 minutes, If it were 30 minutes, I'd probably got a heart attack! lol

I can't say that it's all always been a fun ride, as in roller coaster you need to go sliding down and feel the fall. I had few down moments too; mostly in my personal life; Losing a family member, experiencing my heart broken to pieces in the most awful way, the accident of my Papa and dear sister and my health issues in early 2011. Those has caused lots of griefs and tears but thankfully they didn't take my aza aza fighthing way! ^_^

And as in any storm, I discover a rainbow in form of many good friends all around the world who have kept me sane and helped me make it through . I have no idea why I deserve them but so glad I have them. I guess my karma is working nicely after all. ;-)

So, I'd like to thank great ELT people like Barbara, Marisa, Vicky, Ania, Anna, Ken, Cherry, Noor, Arjana, James, my iTDi's family and David W along with some personal friends of mine; David S, Shane, Graham, Allan, Farzana, Vi, Xandra, Uline, Marlene and many more who have made my 2011's smiles stay still through it all. So blessed to have you in my life!

And guess what? I'm so not afraid of 2012 with all the rumors around it! Cause I know I can always count on my 'aza aza' spirit to make it shines!

Happy New Year guys! Keep on rocking!

 #ELTchat Summary 07/12/201

Image from http://dlccc.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/webinar-big.jpg?w=150&h=112

A webinar, or web seminar, is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the web with the internet as the ‘magic’ making it all happen. This means that no matter where you live or work, you can attend this from your PC or laptop in your own home. Of course this gives freedom as you can join any chosen Webinar that suits your needs; professional development is simply a click away.

So, what is it about webinar that appeals to them to join?

What is left from my guest post about dogme teaching in Montessori Kindergarten classroom.

Recently I wrote 3 blog posts for someone I proudly call a friend ; James taylor (@theteacherjames) about my project on applying the dogme teaching in my Kindergarten Montessori classroom.

• http://theteacherjames.blogspot.com/2011/12/guest-post-loving-greens-montessori-and_15.html
• http://theteacherjames.blogspot.com/2011/12/guest-post-loving-greens-montessori-and_14.html
• http://theteacherjames.blogspot.com/2011/12/guest-post-loving-greens-montessori-and.html

I recently also talked about this on TeachMeet International  which was hosted by the beautiful Arjana Blazic (@abfromz) who is a fellow iTDi associates and the fabulous Bart Verswijvel (@BartVerswijvel)

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What you might not know is that I owe the idea to James, Shaun Wilden (@Shaunwilden) and Barb sakamoto (@barbsaka) along with the rest of the #eltchat participants who kind of doctrinized me on what is the benefit on applying dogme teaching in a language classroom.

One thing I didn’t really mention on my guest posts on the teacher James’s blog was how to apply them. There are 3 things needed to be done to have dogme collaborating with Montessori’s way in my classroom.

1. Prepared environment: As Dogme is about teaching unplugged; I made sure that everything was prepared along with my lessons. As I chose to apply it during my Vegetables lesson, I set up my classroom to support it. I brought all fresh vegetables in classroom, having booths for my students to explore during discovery time and basically used vegetables as my teaching tools.
2. Personalized worksheet : We all know that in Dogme, workbooks are never the highlight, so this was what I did too. We didn’t use books but as I still had to give them some sort of written exercise, I made my own worksheet based on the vegetables topic.
3. Interactivity: This is the main course actually as Dogme teaching is about communicative learning. So I tried to engage in as many two ways conversation with my students as I can during presentation time. Because usually they would just watch me present my material, but this time I included them in the process as I let them commented or asking questions in the middle of the presentations.

So, those were my basic points on having Dogme in my Montessori classroom.  I’d sure like to try to apply it again in my class because I could see that it can work well with the right preparation. But then again, all lesson needs to be prepared well, right?

Thanks again for everyone who has been my inspiration on doing this. It's been fun and this is what I love from #Eltchat and what PLN is all about. 

Aza aza Growing! 

How can we create them for learners’ and make the most of them for their own CPD

This Wednesday 26/10/2011 #ELTChat was moderated by Shaun wilden (@shaunwilden) , Bernadette Wall (@rliberni) and Marisa Constatinides (@Marisa_C) . And the topic was E-Portfolios. Many of the participants – including myself – were very excited to learn more about this topic.

An electronic portfolio/e-portfolio: a collection of electronic evidence assembled, usually on the web.

E-portfolos are ways of storing a students’ work etc throughout their education and on into the workplace .

An e-portfolio can be a page, a glogster, or even a whole website.

The idea of an e-portfolio is that it should include representative samples (best really) of a student’s output, such as text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog  entries, and hyperlinks .

E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user’s abilities and platforms for self-expression.

An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement. The advantage is that students build these as they go along and take them forward from stage to stage – it’s a personal document. A key thing is that the students become accountable and also more responsible for their own evaluation of their growth .

Aside from the benefits to the student, an e-portfolio is also a great help for teachers/institutions who like to keep track on the progress of their students and can provide an efficient means to reinforce shared visions and commitments to its mission.

Here are some of the benefits:

A major use of e-portfolios is for the assessment. The e-portfolio does not make the learning process easier especially if you aren’t a tech savvy, but it does make the whole process much more cost-effective. Plus it’s very friendly for our mother earth.

Many participants agree that on the idea of repository (e.g. posterous) and then another blog to be used as a showcase for best work, though surely your blog is a reflective diary – where E-portfolio is more a showcase of the best of what you do However E-Portfolio has to be maintained over the years to keep track on what has been done and how the progress are.

But of course it is only fair to say n everyone has the opportunity to create online works due to tech availability, willingness, skills, etc

Nevertheless E-Portfolio is a good material to showcase not only to certain community but also to the world of what you have done.

Some memorable tweets

@esolcourses:   Best advice I can offer to anyone considering using e-portfolios, is to agree outcomes first with everyone involved  #ELTChat

@Marisa_C    : Well you all know what portfolios are – #ELTchat, so let’s talk about how they can become e- 

@esolcourses:  My understanding of e-portfolios is that they are an online body of work that can be used to supplement or replace paper-based mats #ELTChat

@Marisa_C    :  An e-portfolio can be a page, a glogster, a whole website #ELTchat

@tefltech        : I think it’s important to remember who the student will show the portfolio to an for what purpose; job/uni etc? #eltchat

@ rliberni       : They are ways of storing a students’ work etc throughout their education and on into the workplace #eltchat

Marisa_C        : The idea of an e-portfolio is that it should include representative samples (best really) of a student’s output #ELTchat

@NikPeachey : I use http://t.co/8qewkJHJ a lot with trainee teachers. very easy as they just email in their wok and  formatting is done for them  #eltchat

@rliberni        : The advantage is that ss build these as they go along and take them forward from stage to stage – it’s a personal document #eltchat

@grahamstanley: #eltchat problem being when idea launched, VLEs were used and now examples in the eportfolio literature are mainly dead links

@Marisa_C    :  An e- portfolio can be created within a wiki tho  #eltchat

@Marisa_C    : I am encouraging teachers to use Ning or similar e,g. groups to turn their ‘page’ into their e-portfolio  #eltchat

@rliberni        : A key thing is that the ss becomes accountable and also more responsible for their own evaluation of their growth #eltchat

@NikPeachey :  Really, you can use any tool for e-portfolio -even .doc power is in encouraging reflection  #eltchat

@mmgrinberg :  Sorry for my ignorance, but how’s an e-portfolio different from just a bunch of stuff online? Is there a set structure? #eltchat

@PrettyButWise: Can e-portfolios measure the progressing of the learner language ?#eltchat

@grahamstanley: problem using Moodle or any non learner-owned site for E-portfolio = when learner leaves your organisation #eltchat

@tefltech         :  it comes back to who the Students will show it to and for what purpose.  We’re looking at helping Students build linkedin profiles as an E-portfolio #eltchat

@grahamstanley : I think eportfolio idea is a perfect opportunity to promote learner autonomy #eltchat

@mmgrinberg: Looks like I’m a bit stubborn today. Why is an e-portfolio better than a well-organized notebook + folder with files? #eltchat

@Marisa_C:  I think it would be nice to try livebinders for an e-portfolio – I am practicing now #ELTchat

@cherrymp: if E-portfolio extends over years then it becomes dynamic #eltchat

@iTDipro:  anyone ever tried using Facebook for Students portfolios? The new-ish closed list possibilities might make this feasible.  #eltchat

@grahamstanley :CEFR model is interesting to look at: eportfolio = 1) dossier (i.e. a repository) 2) passport 3) biography #eltchat

@grahamstanley: #eltchat another good tool to use for an eportfolio is a wiki – put all there and easily choose what you decide to showcase on front page

Some great resources:

• From Cambridge esol  http://t.co/i3DWEYyX #ELTchat
• My E-Portfolio page by @cybraryman1:  http://t.co/nU0tPIaH
• About teacher e-portfolios by @ozge http://t.co/4iPnEE18 
• All kinds of e-Portfolios for discussion purposes - http://t.co/QDeZOkgZ
• IfL Reflect resource, document of CPD http://t.co/sZcZHrjY
• @isilboy’s  article on eportfolios http://t.co/3PQe4HCY
• Ray Tolley’s research on e-portfolios http://t.co/HoLCASOv
• E-portfolios http://t.co/R0fdsD8X
• Link to British Council CPD framework: http://t.co/jKrbTovF
• Intersting post on bPortfolios (Blog as Portfolio) http://t.co/90ddsRJmand
• bPortfolios:Blogging for Reflective Practice http://t.co/nhRrfsXl
• by @mike08 ;a presentation on E-portfolios at #istek in 2010 -http://t.co/uuLKcMSO 
• Teacher E-portfolio http://t.co/xXDNy1aW 
• Another interesting link to explore http://t.co/U3n7yHS1
• By @yearinthelifeof A day in the life of an ELT conference presenter http://t.co/cS5CD9l9
• by @ozge ‘s wiki – places to explore  http://t.co/5EcXdbED
• Virtual CV http://t.co/fdGw1ic9
• By @CeciELT’s blogpost on e-portfolios http://t.co/wqo2yNFD 
• E-Portfolios Back on the Agenda Again” – useful links to sites for hosting themhttp://t.co/wm02PzwU
• @CeciELT’s #RSCON3 presentation “Alternative Assessment and Eletronic Portfolios” http://t.co/8g9YQnSO

With all these great links and great explanation, I believe that there’s a chance that  E-Portfolio can play an important role our education system. Thanks so much to the fabulous moderators; Shaun Wilden (@shaunwilden), Bernadette wall (@rliberni) and Marisa constantinides (@Marisa_C) for another great Wednesday and as always I’d like to end it with the tweet of the day:

@janetbianchini: I see Portfolios as a living embodiment of so’s work – almost like an eternally evolving CV in fact #ELTchat

See you guys next Wednesday!

Aza aza Fighting! ^_^

Icha

@yitzha_sarwono