FEBRUARY 13TH, 2012: DAY 1

Today, Monday 13th February, 2012 I started the Argentina Summer School organized by the British Council in San Isidro, Buenos Aires. I was really looking forward to it, psecially after the welcome dinner that we had the night before and where I met participants and presenters to the course. It was really interesting to meet people who share such a passion for IT and EFL as I do! Anyway, the morning session was started by Nicky Hockly, an interesting and kind expert who wrote the technolgy book I always use!! She started her class with very interesting ice breakers (gropu work with 3 things we had in common, 3 positive adjectives about myself and 3 things I always carry) great ice-breaker! I'm definitely using them for my first day at university!!! Then, Nicky showed us a tool called Wordle, I am really happy I could learn about it and I don't know how come I didn't know about it before!! (Needless to say, I will use this great tool for my classes at university!!). Coffee break, great time to keep on getting to know new people. The second morning session was started by Silvia Rettardi, another authority in the field who introduced a new concept (to most of us , I guess): microblogging! Through the Edmodo we started doing different activities to explore the microblog. Lucnh break, delicious! In the afternoon session we had an insightful talk delevered by Leonor Corradi, the director of the English language Department at the Ministry of Education. Aftr the talk I felt that there ar emany things i can do to help achieve one of the goal of the New Law of Education: enforece the link between schools and universities. Coffee break!! The last session helped me learn how to use blogs and how to open up the blog I am posting right now!! sorry, time is up, I have to publish thisn now!! c.u. tomorrow!!!