This entry is part 6 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work with creative and talented people who value not only the need to create tools that facilitate learning, but tools that also are open, available for sharing, and heck, are(…)
Last month, I had the extraordinarily good fortune to be able attend the EUROCALL Open Educational Resources SIG Conference hosted by the Centro Interfacoltà di Linguisitica Teorica ed Applicata (CILTA) at the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). The title of the conference was “Learning Through Sharing: Open Resources, Open Practices, Open Communication.” The venue(…)
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Teaching what you thought you knewOne of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures is baseball. Growing up in a family of baseball enthusiasts and long-suffering Red Sox fans, listening to baseball games was something that put me to sleep, and going to games was something to pass(…)
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Teaching what you thought you knew Foto of a sign in a buseta in Bogotá used with permission from Andreuchis I have to admit it. Prior to this past semester, when I thought of Colombian Music the only things that sprang to mind was the(…)
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Teaching what you thought you knewA thousand years ago, I studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I went during college and then back again for a year after I graduated. Those were important years in my life and in my growth(…)
This entry is part 9 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently We are at the end of the first half of the semester, and what an extraordinary 7 weeks this has been. Outside of our small town there have been wars and tsunamis and earthquakes and nuclear reactors melting down. Oh and Liz Taylor(…)
This entry is part 10 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently Part of my rationale behind asking my students to blog sometimes has to do with the blogging platform itself. I want them to have the opportunity to see how a blog works, and more importantly perhaps, how commenting on a blog works. And(…)
This entry is part 11 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyA few people have asked to have a peek at the blogging tool that I use for my Spanish conversation class. Knowing that, I had great plans to make a photochop images with arrows and numbers and what nots….and then gave up and just(…)
This entry is part 20 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently In our shop we have WordPress MU installed and available for anyone (in the languages and elsewhere) who would like to use blogs for teaching. I am just now beginning to think of how I will use blogs in my “spring” semester class,(…)
This entry is part 22 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyAs I mentioned here, I am a center director first and a teacher second. As a center director I teach faculty and students how to use technology for teaching/learning. (Well that and when they need to stay farrrr away from it.) Like many of(…)
How lovely… LLU just found out it has been nominated as one of the top 100 Language Blogs of 2009 (in the category of Language Technology) by the folks over at Lexiophiles.com Public voting will begin July 8 through the 27th. Here is a bit more info on the process. And yes, I have already(…)
This entry is part 25 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently Lesson #3: Marc Prensky got it all wrong Marc Prensky’s famous and yet false binary that says our students are digital natives and the rest of us are digital immigrants has addled me for years. As -if- we needed to create any more(…)