Before we broke for the Winter Break, I was lucky enough to converse with language and technology colleagues from Case Western Reserve University. Case has a large and growing presence in Second Life, and when I received an email from my colleague Tina at Case that she worked with a Spanish instructor who wanted to [...]

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So sorry we dropped off the planet there for about 10 days. Somewhere around the 15th of December LLU was hacked. Oh my.

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Many thanks to our faithful readers who noticed something was wrong and let us know. Many thanks and snaps to Ryan for several days [...]

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My place of employment has begun a new marketing campaign in which people from our community are invited to tell their stories — “quick (ish) anecdotes that illustrate how unique this place is, and should be written in the first-person.” These stories, it is hoped, will form a collective narrative about [...]

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During the second semester I am teaching a Spanish Conversation course. This time through I have decided I am going to blog (here) about my experiences getting this course set up and put into place…and then blog about what happens as the course unfolds throughout the semester.
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[NOTE: On October 17th, I was supposed to gve the opening keynote at the MWALLT conference at Case Western Reserve University, but alas, I ended up having to spend the night before my talk in a local emergency room with abdominal pains. The good news was that the emergency room had the really [...]

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