July 2013 – Language Lab Unleashed

The OpenLIVES Project

OpenLIVES (Learning Insights from the Voices of Emigrés from Spain) is an open, accessible, digitized collection of important life history interviews…

Posted on: July 21, 2013
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An Open Assignment Bank… for Languages

LLU is a big fan of the creative work that happens at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies…

Posted on: July 19, 2013
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A not so gentle reminder about technology & teaching

Posted on: July 17, 2013
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Class Blogging vs the Academic Calendar

Blogging takes time: It takes time to write, time to comment, time to research other blogs and bloggers and read/…

Posted on: July 15, 2013
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Unused NordicTracks and Babies: Thoughts about Rosetta Stone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckp/2571595965/ Alternative Uses For A NordicTrack (Photo by ChuckP on Flickr) I receive at least one call every month from…

Posted on: July 12, 2013
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SpinTX: Open and Authentic Spanish language videos for teaching and learning

I am constantly on the look-out for resources of authentic Spanish language. As I mentioned before Radio Ambulante is a…

Posted on: July 10, 2013
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Improvisational teaching

I still have draft posts in the hopper from the June 2010 nmc summer meeting (yes, June 2010...yes, this post…

Posted on: July 8, 2013
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Fear, Motivation, Social Consciousness and Language Learning: the graph

As I started to put away papers from the last semester, I found this graph that one of my students…

Posted on: July 5, 2013
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Using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language classroom

This semester I discovered an astonishingly awesome audio resource: Radio Ambulante. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language radio program showcasing compelling…

Posted on: July 3, 2013
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Creating, Uploading, Commenting and Sharing Audio via SoundCloud

Thanks to the folks over is ds106-land, I have been introduced to the wonders of SoundCloud, a web-based sound recording…

Posted on: July 1, 2013
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