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Recent Posts:- Giving up on Google Reader January 2, 2012
- There are no words. January 2, 2012
- A few shout outs and a woof December 15, 2011
- Mid semester evaluation: Do it. November 3, 2011
- Remain calm November 3, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 4): El beísbol August 11, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 3): Colombian Music, or how I learned to appreciate Hip Hop after 40 August 9, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 2): Colombian Film July 27, 2011
- Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 1): Colombia July 9, 2011
- Equating a Knowledge of English with Intelligence March 28, 2011
Recent Posts:- An Open Letter to Joshua Kim January 11, 2010
- Has the Sage on the Stage Run Amok? Banning Technology in Class March 7, 2009
- Which conference session would you go to, and why? February 20, 2009
- Blogging from CALICO: CALL Needs a Disciplinary Track Record (a.k.a. "Don't fear the Metadata") March 21, 2008
- Is CALL a subset of Applied Linguistics? March 21, 2008
- Prensky – Redefining Literacy OR Is the Print Culture Going the Way of the Oral Culture? March 19, 2008
- Doodle…Sloodle…Moodle March 4, 2008
- Back to "addled"… January 14, 2008
- What (or Who) is "In the Flow"? November 30, 2007
- "Real Life" Live webcasting into Second Life November 15, 2007
Recent Posts:- Air Sketch – a Smartboard Alternative? July 27, 2010
- Scheduling Meetings with Students: Tungle July 22, 2010
- Flowgram November 14, 2008
- Great Little Application July 13, 2008
- Language Technology Boot Camp December 10, 2007
- Introduction to German Media and Film November 5, 2007
- We built this city… October 27, 2007
- Live from SWALLT 2007 October 27, 2007
- Skype and MySpace October 17, 2007
- Comic Life for Windows October 16, 2007
Recent Posts:- How to do EdTech right? October 26, 2011
- What every lab manager needs to know about the App Store October 22, 2011
- Preparing to travel abroad? Don’t forget to watch these videos. January 3, 2011
- My resolution: creating, sharing, and connecting in 2011 December 31, 2010
- The toughest lecture December 30, 2010
- YouTube + Disney = language learning gold December 29, 2010
- Artisanal education and the illusion of support. November 21, 2010
- Creating community: a new proof-of-concept. August 14, 2010
- Conference as learning environment: we can do better. July 25, 2010
- The return of the podcast: LLU #24 May 12, 2009
Recent Posts:- Makin’ It January 27, 2012
- Reviewing the Situation December 16, 2011
- ‘Tis the Season December 9, 2011
- Refreshing October 28, 2011
- Talking Out of Both Sides of My Mouth April 11, 2011
- Au Début February 1, 2011
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RT @LangLabUnleashd: [New Post on LLU] Makin’ It http://t.co/s1X5w7yd // I writed something.
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Has anyone else noticed that Ron Paul /Endorse Liberty ads have taken over the Lady Gaga channel on YouTube?
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WLTools Tech Scoop is out! http://t.co/7YEYpffV ▸ Top stories today via @langlabunleashd @fraususi @anamlarr @jenwaak @just_education
3 weeks agoRT @lindseybp: Anybody checking how lang learning/study abroad correlates w/this? Curiosity as a Learning Outcome http://t.co/J5WNy9rA
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Makin’ It
I’m starting to feel a difference between my new gig in general instructional technology and my previous one in language technology as concerns the position of potential collaborators along the…
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The Backwards Syllabus
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 1 CommentThis semester I did not create a planned, hyper-managed “if it is Tuesday we will be doing this” sort of syllabus. And yes,as in the past I was worried that... -
Testing the wordpress plug in for the ipod touch
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsSo this is a test of the WordPress 2.2 app for the IPod touch and whether I can post to the blog from the device… With a picture from my... -
To the whiteboard!
Posted on March 1, 2010 | No CommentsI am lucky to work with some pretty amazing people. I am also lucky that these same people are tolerant of my “what would happen if we did this?” or... -
Outsourcing, Learning Virtually and Fear
Posted on March 1, 2010 | No CommentsAs I mentioned in previous posts, when the economy goes sour, that is often a time when language educators and language technologists are at their most vulnerable…not because of anything... -
Low hanging fruit
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 O’er the past few days there has been a kerfluffle brewing over at Inside Higher Ed in their Blog U section. As my colleague and... -
An Open Letter to Joshua Kim
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsHi 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... -
VoiceThread as Final Exam
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments(Original FotoZach Hawkins on Flickr) The end of the semester has come and gone. Grades have been tallied and entered. The VoicesThreads as Final Exams were completed, viewed and reviewed.... -
Reflections from the winter shutdown
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsFoto Credit: lizawithaz on Flickr Winter is upon us, as was my college’s requisite “Winter Shutdown,” where we all go home and hibernate between terms. Apparently the college does this... -
Flickrpoet and the Language Classroom
Posted on December 28, 2009 | No CommentsI became aware of FlickrPoet via a tweet on Twitter, and have been playing around with it a bit. Here is how it works: you type in a poem or... -
What English sounds like to non-English speakers
Posted on December 19, 2009 | No Comments[Snaps and thanks to Ryan and his RSS feeds for finding this gem.] Explanation: It’s a 1972 song written by the Italian Adriano Celentano called “Prisencolinensinainciusol.” According to the Wikipedia...
