Greetings from the SWALLT Fall 2007 conference at Stanford University. If you couldn’t make it, please check out the SWALLT blog.

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According to Macworld, the popular social networking site MySpace will use Skype as its VOIP service. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these web 2.0 service merge in the future. iChat and Voicethread? Skype and Chinswing? Skype and …? What would be your ideal combination?

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For all you windows users out there, the wonderful Comic Life by Plasq is no longer Mac-only. What a great program for language learning and creating teaching materials. If you haven’t used it, make sure to download the 30-day trial version. Enjoy!
By the way, as an introductory offer they give out this $5 coupon.

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Modern technology is great for language learning and teaching, no doubt. And it saves time. But sometimes we spend more than in the good ol’ days. I’m talking about computers answering your phone calls.
I’ve spent quite a few hours on the job trying to talk to the delivery company, the online retailer, or the airline [...]

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I have recently written about online karaoke. Well that site got an update (read=”was taken over”) and now features a lot more than online karaoke. Loosely based on the Sims, a language learning and technology classic, the site (called”Sims On Stage“) allows users to write or record stories, poetry pr comedy clips. Standard web 2.0 [...]

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