My dear colleague and comrade/comadre in blogging, Barbara Ganley, has been chiding me via Twitter about how long it has been since I have been here on the blog. She is the queen of slow blogging (borrowing the term from the slow food movement.)Her posts emerge as multimedia feasts to savor and to ponder [...]

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When someone asks me what I do, I have a hard time answering them. My job title is Educational Technology Specialist, and I do sometimes call myself a technologist. But what do either of those labels mean? The latter is a catch-all term that accurately matches the vagary of what I do on any given [...]

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This summer, interspersed between our experimentations with Moodle for language learning, the Summer Leadership Meeting for IALLT, a workshop at Middlebury on using social software for language teaching, and BG, GeekyMom and my presentation at BlogHer, I have been helping my sister and my brother keep an eye on my parents in Maine as they [...]

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