When I was browsing through the APPI (Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês) Newsletter (year 25, no. 2 2010) some time ago, I came across this short article about a teacher in Anadia who set up an English club with her 3rd cycle students. I voraciously read the 2-page long text and felt both exhilarated and frustrated to feel that I was on the right path, no doubt about that, but I was struggling to get a simple English club up and running at higher education! Led by curiosity, I peeked at their blog and was amazed to see how many texts, videos, images and projects they had already posted.
Later this week, I found a podcast-interview with Dave Sterling (author of ESL's Café) and he was reporting his long-time relationship with computers and the web when he mentioned his first website, dating from 1995 (!!!), which he mainly used for posting his students' texts! Because of that, students started o get in contact with each other, exchanging emails and getting highly motivated. This happened back in 1995!
This is what I would like to see on our blog, as well as the typical childish engagement and enthusiasm that so strangely flows out of our young adults.
CM
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