Talk to the Clouds

Tag: web 2.0

  • Precautions

    Sorry for the long radio silence here and on Twitter, etc.! I went to a convention over Memorial Day weekend, and when I came back, my place had been broken into. My beloved MacBook Pro was stolen, among other things. I hadn’t backed up as often as I should have, because too much other stuff…

  • The Twitter Divide

    (Note: This post contains lots of speculation and generalizations based on some extremely subjective observations, without any hard data to back it up. I’m not claiming I’m right about any of this! I’d love to get different points of view, so please comment. Thanks!)   I’m on Twitter as talkclouds. Since I’m currently working as…

  • New Twitter Account, Spiffing Up

    I mentioned this briefly in an earlier post, but there’s a new Twitter account tied to this blog. So please feel free to follow @talkclouds. I’m delighted to follow other English teachers back, and if you have some other people to recommend that I should follow, please let me know! Also, I’ve cleaned up and…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Delicious

    It’s the next to last day of this twelve-part series. I hope you’ve been enjoying the variety so far! I was debating whether to post about this service, since my geekier friends have been using it for years, but I checked with a couple of English-teaching friends and they weren’t familiar with it. (I’m in…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Google Voice

    On the eighth day, we’re taking a moment to focus on a service that’s mostly of use only to folks working in the US, although there are some ways in which it could be useful to people with a lot of American friends and family. If that isn’t you at all, well, happy new year…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: ProfessionalStudiesAE.org and more

    Very serious here on the sixth day, after photo fun yesterday! Is one of your New Year’s resolutions going to involve professional development? Read on for free self-guided online courses you can do from the comfort of your own computer! I’ll mostly focus on a set of courses for adult educators, but there are more…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Photojojo and more

    On the fifth day of Christmas we’ll be taking a break from education again, sort of. Photography is a favorite hobby of many EFL teachers and teachers in general, but relatively few of us have huge amounts of money to spend on our equipment or taking classes. So, how to upgrade our photo skills? Keep…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Portable Apps

    Hello, and welcome to Day Two! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) I think this one of the best things I have for you; even if it’s not something you need right now, you may make a friend’s day if you know someone who needs it. PortableApps.com lets you install small, “light” versions of free programs for…

  • Twelve Days of Christmas: Google Wave Guide and Invitations

    Day One: A couple of Lifehacker editors have written a guide to Google Wave, the amazing new still-in-progress collaboration and communication service that I think could be really fantastic for teachers, writers, people working overseas, and just about anyone. You can read a version of the guide free online: The Complete Guide to Google Wave…

  • Solving the Blogging Sword of Damocles

    Especially when living and working overseas, it’s easy to plan to blog and then fail to, whether because of too much pressure or not enough opportunities to get online or an increasing backlog of photos and excursions to write up or too many options when it comes to the actual blog itself. I think I’ve…