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 electronically penned…. I have been a subscriber to Inside Higher Ed for about a year now…found out about it from Facebook, of all places. I(…)
I have debated for quite some time now how I was going to approach this blog entry, because I truly am trying to have an open mind and want people to share their opinions about this controversy, but it’s REALLY hard for me to channel any empathy for the tribe of instructors described below. In(…)
I was reading an article attempting to debunk common [mis]perceptions about study abroad, but I got sidetracked by the very first paragraph. It made me want to ask any and all willing to share: which is more interesting to you at this point in your career… conference sessions that “orient participants into the accepted language(…)
Nina Garrett, CALL doyenne par excellence, has (yet again) hit a home run with her call for practitioners and publications to “establish a disciplinary track-record that will allow old-timers and newcomers alike to understand how language pedagogy has and has not changed with changing technologies and how earlier materials and research can be recognized as(…)
I went to a very informative session this morning entitled “A Quality Analysis of CALL Journals“. One of the quickly apparent “givens” of the participants and attendees (hélas!) is that the CALL discipline is a subset of Applied Linguistics. So I’m asking the question: Which discipline(s) inform the field we lovingly refer to as CALL(…)
It’s funny how you stumble across things sometimes…. After intially hearing the news on Twitter, I was frantically searching the ‘Net for some news about Marc Prensky, who apparently may have suffered a stroke during his keynote at the NJECC conference (I hope he is well…) when I stumbled across his one of his most(…)
I thought I would share a great clip I found on YouTube from Mary Ann Mengel from a Center for Learning and Teaching in the Penn State system. It gives a great overview of educational uses of Second Life including educational locations, tools, and learning archetypes that are applicable to Second Life. This is a(…)
While Barbara was back and addled, I was in Oklahoma, with little to no time and less Internet access, but enough to read the post, only to have to sit and let it seethe until I could get back and react (after the dust of the new semester settled a bit). Frankly, Tim looks like(…)
Since I have been steeped in thought over trends and issues in instructional design and technology these past few months, I have given much thought to the notion of motivation. Many of us work in institutions where a language requirement exists, and as such a large body of students enter our beginning courses each semester(…)
Suppose I’m at a conference (ACTFL, CALICO, IALLT, etc.) and need to teach a course back at my institution while at the conference, and decide to have my students virtually attend a conference session and be able to send questions for me to ask the session panelists. You have your standard, garden-variety ways to make(…)
I had a great experience Tuesday teaching French to a group of language educators from around the world…I was using the Natural Approach to teach colors to them. I had a portable projector and we talked about the different colors briefly, practiced pronunciation, and talked about the colors we were all wearing. Then things got(…)
