(Subtitled: who will remember to put the tape in the VCR when they’re all watching Youtube?)
Harold H. Hendricks, BYU
There are lots of ways to get capure television and put it online. But there are a bunch of problems. For example: what about daily broadcasts? You don’t want to watch them a week late. So [...]

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Breathing a Second Life into the L2 Curriculum: Google, Gaming, and Language Learning for the GNUbie (Douglas W. Canfield, UT-Knoxville)
A disconnect exists between the academy and what students are doing. How do we reach millenials?
By age 21, students will have spent tens of thousands of hours playing video games, sending emails, watching TV, and on [...]

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Language Lab Unleashed #20
Many thanks to Todd Bryant (Language Program Administrator at Dickinson College), Felix Kronenberg (Instructor of German and Director of the Foreign Language Resource Center at Pomona College) and Doug Canfield (Coordinator of the Language Resource Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville) for participating in LLU#20.
The [...]

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Please join us Thursday May 17 at 8 p.m. (Eastern time) for a conversation about how online, multi-user “games” or MMPORGs such as Second Life and World of Warcraft can be used for second language learning.
Given the fact that one needs to pay for a license for WoW and Second Life is free, [...]

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In addition to Todd Bryant’s brilliant Mixxer tool, there are some new (okay well new to me) additions to the tools that help you find Skype partners for language exchanges.
Todd Told me about SoZiety… but I am wondering if Xlingo is SoZiety in an earlier form…comments?
SoZiety
Xlingo

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