By Aaron Campbell · April 30, 2005
High school EFL students from Poland and Malta are taking part in the Blog Project at the European Center of Modern Languages. Using blogging tools developed specifically for the project, these learners are expressing themselves with text, color, photos, emoticons, and even original artwork. Project team leaders Mario Camilleri, Peter Ford, and Valerie Sollars have created an online community that brings together the work of these young EFL learners with that of French language students and other international guests to create an intercultural, peer-to-peer language community. Please visit the main site and join in the conversation.
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Peter Ford
wrote on April 30, 2005:
Congratulations on a great looking site! I’m sure it will a great sure of information and inspiration for many!
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Blinger
wrote on May 01, 2005:
Just for the record your RSS feeds are not set up with auto-discovery – I had to manually add them to bloglines.
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Rudolf
wrote on May 01, 2005:
Hi there—thanks and welcome to Dekita!
Blinger—thanks also for the heads-up. There are lots of loose ends that still need to be tied down—we’re working on them and will get to the feeds as soon as we can.
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Magdalena
wrote on May 01, 2005:
This is a very useful site. I will visit it again as soon as my classes are over. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your thoughts and projects.
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James
wrote on May 01, 2005:
Good stuff guys, beautiful design!!!
Does textpattern have a subscribe to comments (by email) feature… reckon it’d seriously help with p2p stuff!
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Rudolf
wrote on May 01, 2005:
Hi Magdalena and James,
Bee, Aaron and I put this site together within a few weeks, without any resources except for a mailing list—no programmers, no designers, no nothing. At one point we decided that we won’t be able to launch with any fancy trappings and that, in fact, we’re going for a bare-minimum approach, period.
We do have a Coveted Bells and Whistles list that’s as long as Miraculix’s beard—and comment subscription is pretty high on that list—but I’m afraid we’ll have to take our time implementing it.
Textpattern, as you might know, has a wide-open architecture that allows anyone with sufficient PHP chops to write their own plugins. I think a comment subscription plugin doesn’t exist yet—maybe we’ll hire a programmer once we get to the Bells and the Whistles.
Hang in there!
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MarÃa Irene
wrote on May 02, 2005:
Great work!! I’m sure this will help many of us with our work.
Greetings,
María Irene
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Mario
wrote on May 02, 2005:
Hi Bee and friends! Marvelous site – well done, keep it up. Your work is sure to be an inspiration to many.
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Blinger
wrote on May 02, 2005:
I agree with James in that wordpress is a far superior opensource system and it was subscribe to comments as well as captchas to help with spam.
If you want to spend money buy expression engine, it kicks but and powers three of my web sites.
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Bee
wrote on May 02, 2005:
Thank you Maria Irene and Mario for your very encouraging posts, James and Blinger for your suggestions and comments, which are always very welcome. I cannot say much about the technical merits of WordPress versus Textpattern as this is Rudolf’s department, but I am sure he will give you a follow up on this soon :-)
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