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 [...]

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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 (or [...]

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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 recent [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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