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Live from CALICALLT 2008

March 20th, 2008 · Ryan · 3 Comments ·

If you’re interested in following the goings-on at CALICO w/ IALLT 2008, there are several options:
1) The #iallt tweme, both at Hashtags and Twemes
2) Felix, Barbara, Doug and I will might be taking turns live-blogging here on the site.
3) The IALLT Learning Ning.
Are you at CALICO w/ IALLT and taking notes somewhere? Let us know [...]

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Language Lab Unleashed @ CALICO (the presentation)

May 26th, 2007 · Barbara · 3 Comments ·

–Note to all: I am back home now (after horrendous driving in the Dallas area…stories and pictures to follow) and will go through the liveblogging notes, clean things up, add more pics, and also add the LLU presentation. but first: I have to finish my final grades !!!–

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Live blogging from CALICO: The Use E-portfolios in the Language Classroom: Rationale and Implementation

May 25th, 2007 · Barbara · 1 Comment ·

Barbara Lafford, Peter Lafford and Michelle Petersen, Arizona State University
Wow…this presentation was chock-a-block with information about types of eportfolios, definitions, purposes, types of “artifacts” to be collected and selected, assessment….thankfully they had an extensive handout. I will fill in the blanks this evening over a refreshing beverage
Great quote: “We do not [...]

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Live blogging from CALICO: When good projects go bad…

May 25th, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

(updated June 3)
Sharon Scinicariello (University of Richmond) did a wonderful presentation on things we don’t often hear about at conferences: No matter how much you plan, there are projects that sometimes just don’t work. And sometimes saving those projects from the brink of disaster is more work than originally creating them
The tools being [...]

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Live blogging from CALICO: Using Instant Messaging Bots and Unsupervised Learning techniques to promote Vocabulary Acquisition

May 25th, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

(updated, or at least made a valiant attempt to do so, on June 3)
J. Scott Payne (Amherst College) Michael Lipschultz, (Penn State)
Note: Congrats to Michael who was just accepted to a PhD program in Computer Science at Pitt…
Issues: Scott talked about the need for longitudinal (Second Language Acquisition) SLA research- We are at the [...]

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