Barbara+Dieu

=Barbara Dieu=

(a.k.a. Bee or Bee Kerouac)
I live in Sao Paulo, a huge metropolis in the southeast of Brazil and I teach EFL (English as a Foreign Language) to high school students preparing for the French baccalauréat at the [|Lycée Pasteur], a Franco-Brazilian secondary school. I am fluent in 4 languages: Polish, Portuguese, English and French and have a good understanding of Spanish. I am a passionate self-taught "geek", [|photographer] and cook.


 * media type="custom" key="190815" || I blog at [|Wide Open Spaces] and maintain social contact with professional colleagues, students and ex-students, friends and family through [|Twitter], [|Jaiku] and [|Facebook]. I also explore learning possibilities, attend conferences and love watching sunrises and sunsets on [|Second Life] when I get too fenced in the city. || media type="custom" key="190809" ||

I find the possibility of learning, networking and collaborating on the Web today as fascinating and exciting as I did in 1997, when I first connected [|my secondary classes virtually and f2f to others abroad].

Since then I have been involving my students and taking part in an [|number of collaborative projects online ,]actively learning and sharing my practice in various national and international [|communities of practice] online like for instance the [|Webheads in Action] and [|TALO] (Teach and Learn Online).

I am presently collaborating on [|Dekita.org], an open and participatory social media project which aims at hihglighting good practice in English Language Teaching classrooms and encourage networking in a learning ecology to bring learners, peers, tutors and experts together. You can find my class blog at [|Bee-blogging from the Tropics], where you will find links to the students' blogs and examples of the latest social tools and platforms we have been using to practice the language.

[|Wordpress] [|Flickr] [|43Things] [|43Places] [|43People] [|Community Walk] [|Bloglines] [|Wikispaces]

I[| have published and been interviewed] on the use of new technologies in teaching and learning, given a number of [|workshops and presentations] on social tools both f2f and online.

My main areas of professional interest nowadays are planning and organizing projects and the uses of ICT in the areas of training, interaction, knowledge acquisition and information transfer so as to promote and improve global understanding, communication and creativity.