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School / Work Affiliation: Secondary school in Flanders (Belgium)

Blog: http://janien.wordpress.com

Website: http://janien.wikispaces.com

About Me: Language and literature teacher of Dutch (native language) and German (foreign language): master's degree in Germanic Philology (University of Antwerp - University of Louvain) and an academic qualification as a language teacher (University of Louvain). Since I started blogging for and with my students in January 2007, I'm exploring 2.0 applications step by step ... In Christian Long's Manifesto I find an outline for my dreams. For that's what I dream of and long for: to renew and restyle my didactics, to empower myself and my students with new interaction by 2.0 facilities.

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A Fascinating Forecast of the Future of Education

Posted on August 19, 2007 at 4:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

On The Sausage Machine I wrote (in English! - not 100% correct, I presume) about an interesting interactive map created by Knowledge Works Foundation and the Institute for the Future: Map of Future Forces Affecting Public Education. While writing, I came to the conclusion that my learning blog in Dutch has so many links to American experts, institutes and associations: the US as a trendsetter for 2.0?…

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The Bible 2.0 in a 'light' and a 'stronger' version

Posted on August 2, 2007 at 9:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes

On my learning blog The Sausage Machine I blogged in Dutch about the Bible in 2.0-presentations ... In fact I wrote two blog posts about the Bible.

1. The Bible 2.0 in a rather light version:

- as an audio book in 'Hollywood musical style' (as my source Tony Dokoupil in Newsweek uses the attributive 'chintzy') and

- as SMS-Bible, I found on an Australian website via Tony Dokoupil in his very interesting and 'light' review in…

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My 1st

Posted on July 26, 2007 at 5:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

My 1st idea was to start blogging in this Classroom2.0 about 'dropping the e in elearning'. Coming soon.
Today I replied to Connie Weber's article about her very interesting Harry Potter-link. I already blogged a several times about Harry Potter on my learning blog The Sausage Machine ...
Then I've been…

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At 12:30pm on September 5, 2007, Pamela Livingston said…: Thanks for the friend invitation, Janien! I really like that we get to share with one another internationally!

At 2:28pm on July 26, 2007, janien said…: @Connie Weber
Yes, it is indeed! Thank you and pleased to meet you!

At 10:22am on July 26, 2007, Connie Weber said…: Your profile page is really interesting! I hope to keep in touch with you, hear about what you're exploring... Really rich work, Janien! Isn't CR2.0 fun?

At 5:54pm on July 13, 2007, Sarah Mendel said…: Hello Janien,

Thanks for your comments, and for putting our site on your blogroll! If any of your students want to have their own webcam represented on the site, let me know! We would love to see your classroom represented.

Sarah