During this week, we will have more synchronous (real time) events to explore virtual classrooms. Check our week 3 Web page:
http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/week3.htm

On Thursday, at 16:00 GMT (check the world calendar for your local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html ), join Jonathan Finkelstein of LTC at the Meeting Room in Learning Times (http://www.learningtimes.org/ ) for a presentation/tour of the Elluminate vClass (virtual classroom) and its potential for language learning. See the details on our chat sessions page: http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/chatsessions#JF

Please, write your name in the database table of our YG to tell us that you are attending this session. You will have to register for free in Learning Times. It is a great community with many resources I you won't regret joining it. Jonathan will be sending a message giving more information.

We will also have Andrew Pincon of Alado, you can check the details on our chat sessions page
http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/chatsessions#AP

As for asyncronous means, we will be discussing blogs. Well, we have already started this discussion and some of you have created your own blogs or have tried our BaW Weblog at:
http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/weblog.html

This week we would like you to think about the differences in the various tools we have been exploring and send your comments to the list, or post them on our Weblog, or use a new tool that we are introducing this week: a webboard, or discussion board at
http://dafnegon.tripod.com/discussionboard.html where I have started a thread: "Virtual Classrooms. What are they good for?" . As you can see you can select the mode that best fits your learning style ;-)

We are planning to create a comparison/contrast table of the different tools (features, advantages, disadvantages, etc) with the comments you post at any of the places mentioned above. Have your say!!

This is all for now, enough, right?

Have a great week, and keep in touch,
Daf