Well, as it has turned out to be already a classical excuse for being away from blogging activities: I underwent knee surgery once again. Since Easter I had to return to physiotherapy and finally got operated the 1st July, this time to the right patella, so that I’m back to walking with crutches again, waiting [...]

All along this year, in every school belonging to the Congregation of  ”The Love of God” we are celebrating the second centenary of Father Usera‘ s birth, the founder of the sisters of our school. During our short Carnaval holidays, about 25 educational workers were invited to visit Toro, in Spain, where he settled the [...]

I have a great friend – she is an English teacher at my school too – who loves painting – whenever she gets enough free time, as she has a big family and is very often busy. This year, for Christmas, when we exchanged gifts, I found out that she had added a greetings card, [...]

Trying to come back on line again, after about six months of too many happenings and deep changes in daily life. My beloved mother died on the  21st of May, from  lung cancer; I had to take some time to learn how to live without  her warm company and accept to interpret the illuminating effect [...]

An eventful year This wonderful and demanding year has not made easy the process of learning to blog and to apply web2.0 tools in the context of the classroom; the main reasons were that I have been walking with crutches since November and that I have been dealing with serious illness in my family along [...]

My Answer to S. Wyatts            As a contribution to the  topic  Blogging safely in the big wide world  that will be presented by Sue Wyatts at an English and Literacy teachers’ conference, in Hobart, next July, I’ll try to answer some of the questions she suggests. Why did you choose the [...]

Answering A Meme      I’ve been tagged both by S. Wyatt and Bookjewel to answer this meme!  Until now it has been a pretext to so many pleasant and even fascinating readings. I think it is worthwhile to know each other better in such an informal way, where we feel  totally free about the [...]

  My Answer To Cameron  If you could describe my blog in just a few words what would they be? Some personal issues retained me from visiting Cameron’s Blog sooner, but here I am to answer her question and tell her why I have  chosen her blog to nominate, which are the features that I admire [...]

Nominations for Edublogs Awards Here are my nominations to the Edublogs Awards: Best Individual blog – Nadine Best new blog – Cameron Best Educational Tech Support – The Edublogger Best Classblog – Technology in our Classroom Best Librarian blog – (No Longer) Alone in a Library

Visit us at our Class Blog: Web.Cad.6abc      Lately my red dots have been suddenly growing although I’m not writting for a while in my personal blog. I came to knew it by my student Filipa: “- Hey teacher, red dots are spreading all over your clustr map!”      Of course, students participating in Student Blogging Competition are looking [...]