A colleague of ours, Joe Dale, from the Isle of Wight, posted this video clip to his blog, and it has been making its rounds throughout the language-learning related blogosphere.
As we here in the US savor what for some is the last weekend of summer and calm before the fall semester frenzy [...]

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We are snowed in here, unable to go anywhere, so I am reading my students blogs and watching their explorations in the Spanish language. My husband is wandering around the internet. He was googling his old high school and found this little gem…the 1970 Holy Family High School Xerox Club.
This is what student [...]

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[cross-posted on tech-o tuesday]
If you haven’t heard of the 1962 book that predicts (or, tries to predict) what technology will look like thirteen short years from the date of publication, please check out the Flickr photoset recently posted by Derrick Bostrom. I’m most frightened interested by the obsession with punch-card systems for language translation, making [...]

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