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Recent Posts:- Giving up on Google Reader January 2, 2012
- There are no words. January 2, 2012
- A few shout outs and a woof December 15, 2011
- Mid semester evaluation: Do it. November 3, 2011
- Remain calm November 3, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 4): El beísbol August 11, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 3): Colombian Music, or how I learned to appreciate Hip Hop after 40 August 9, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 2): Colombian Film July 27, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 1): Colombia July 9, 2011
- Equating a Knowledge of English with Intelligence March 28, 2011
Recent Posts:- An Open Letter to Joshua Kim January 11, 2010
- Has the Sage on the Stage Run Amok? Banning Technology in Class March 7, 2009
- Which conference session would you go to, and why? February 20, 2009
- Blogging from CALICO: CALL Needs a Disciplinary Track Record (a.k.a. "Don't fear the Metadata") March 21, 2008
- Is CALL a subset of Applied Linguistics? March 21, 2008
- Prensky – Redefining Literacy OR Is the Print Culture Going the Way of the Oral Culture? March 19, 2008
- Doodle…Sloodle…Moodle March 4, 2008
- Back to "addled"… January 14, 2008
- What (or Who) is "In the Flow"? November 30, 2007
- "Real Life" Live webcasting into Second Life November 15, 2007
Recent Posts:- Air Sketch – a Smartboard Alternative? July 27, 2010
- Scheduling Meetings with Students: Tungle July 22, 2010
- Flowgram November 14, 2008
- Great Little Application July 13, 2008
- Language Technology Boot Camp December 10, 2007
- Introduction to German Media and Film November 5, 2007
- We built this city… October 27, 2007
- Live from SWALLT 2007 October 27, 2007
- Skype and MySpace October 17, 2007
- Comic Life for Windows October 16, 2007
Recent Posts:- How to do EdTech right? October 26, 2011
- What every lab manager needs to know about the App Store October 22, 2011
- Preparing to travel abroad? Don’t forget to watch these videos. January 3, 2011
- My resolution: creating, sharing, and connecting in 2011 December 31, 2010
- The toughest lecture December 30, 2010
- YouTube + Disney = language learning gold December 29, 2010
- Artisanal education and the illusion of support. November 21, 2010
- Creating community: a new proof-of-concept. August 14, 2010
- Conference as learning environment: we can do better. July 25, 2010
- The return of the podcast: LLU #24 May 12, 2009
Recent Posts:- Makin’ It January 27, 2012
- Reviewing the Situation December 16, 2011
- ‘Tis the Season December 9, 2011
- Refreshing October 28, 2011
- Talking Out of Both Sides of My Mouth April 11, 2011
- Au Début February 1, 2011
Other Stuff
RT @LangLabUnleashd: [New Post on LLU] Makin’ It http://t.co/s1X5w7yd // I writed something.
16 hours ago
Has anyone else noticed that Ron Paul /Endorse Liberty ads have taken over the Lady Gaga channel on YouTube?
2 weeks ago
WLTools Tech Scoop is out! http://t.co/7YEYpffV ▸ Top stories today via @langlabunleashd @fraususi @anamlarr @jenwaak @just_education
2 weeks agoRT @lindseybp: Anybody checking how lang learning/study abroad correlates w/this? Curiosity as a Learning Outcome http://t.co/J5WNy9rA
2 weeks ago
Makin’ It
I’m starting to feel a difference between my new gig in general instructional technology and my previous one in language technology as concerns the position of potential collaborators along the…
Recent Posts
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A few shout outs and a woof
Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted to get out at least one more post here on…
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‘Tis the Season
A bit like Ryan before me, I’m going to be starting a new job soon that takes me out of the intimate daily work of language technology and puts me…
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Mid semester evaluation: Do it.
We are at the 1/2 way spot in our semester. It’s midterm grading time (here the grades at midterm are pretty simple: Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, Really Unsatisfactory and Never Seen…
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Remain calm
This sign was on the door to my building the first week of class. I took the picture, I chuckled, and I stayed calm…I just forgot to post it here…
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Refreshing
(It’s appalling that I’ve been given a great opportunity — to blog here at LLU — and I haven’t taken advantage of it. It’s further appalling that I preach reflective…
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How to do EdTech right?
As an educational technologist, it’s my job to help educators make smart decisions about technology. It’s a hard job, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because doing it right…
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What every lab manager needs to know about the App Store
Ask any Apple fan why they love their desktop/laptop/iWhatever and inevitably you’ll hear that Apple Devices Just Work. It’s true that, in Cupertino, hundreds of millions of dollars each year…
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Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 4): El beísbol
One of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures is baseball. Growing up in a family of baseball enthusiasts and long-suffering Red Sox fans, listening to baseball games was something that put me…
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Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 3): Colombian Music, or how I learned to appreciate Hip Hop after 40
Foto of a sign in a buseta in Bogotá used with permission from Andreuchis I have to admit it. Prior to this past semester, when I thought of Colombian Music…
Authors' Picks
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It’s not where you land that matters.
I don’t usually write about about things that happen in my personal life in this space, but I thought it might be worth mentioning the journey our family –in particular,…
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An Open Letter to Joshua Kim
Hi Joshua! Allow me to preamble a little while to get you and I (and LLU readers) up-to-speed on my version of events that led to this open letter being…
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Why I teach.
My job is a language center director first and foremost, but the opportunity to teach language classes gives me a perspective on teaching and learning that I would not get…
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But could you do this without Ryan??
Yes it has been a while since I have blogged, I admit it. There is this pesky little thing called the end of the semester that we are dealing with…
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Language Technology Boot Camp
I wanted to inform you of an exciting project that we are currently working on: the Language Technology Boot Camp project. Everybody can join us or just use the materials…
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LLU #19: the Great Wikipedia Debate (podcast now available!)
Middlebury College’s Department of History made headlines at the end of January when they announced a ban on the use of Wikipedia as a reference. Later in February, a Classics…
