Friday, April 15, 2011

The Link is Dead. Long Live the Link!

The Link died a death this year, not least, I think, because I've taken a back seat and hoped the conversations would carry on themselves. It hasn't happened. The Link is as quiet as a ghost town. Also, I haven't put much time into 'The Link' or even StudentZone as I've been concentrating so much on the British Council Porto Facebook page - and if you're not following that, you should be!

I think it would be a shame for 'The Link' to be closed down, though, and I keep getting warnings from 'Lefora' about lack of activity. It also struck me the other day, that I often find interesting things in my online work which are not suitable for our Facebook page, but would be of general interest.

So I'm going to try something new. I'll post occasional posts of interest, comments, links, whatever on 'The Link', and you can comment on them if you want to. My posts should be enough to keep 'The Link' ticking over. Of course, you're welcome, as ever, to post new things yourself.

All of my adult students reading this should have a password - if you've forgotten it, you can ask lefora to email you a new one. If you haven't got a password for some reason, you can always ask me to invite you on if you want to post or comment, but that should be the minority. Students under 18 (eg my YB2.2 class) can't join to comment, but you can see the links and info on the site.

Ex-students, feel free to join in too!

Mark