This entry is part 2 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyOne of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or the people who come to our class… every semester I acquire new knowledge, ideas, and perspectives thanks to what happens in the classroom. As(…)
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 7 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyBefore the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted to get out at least one more post here on LLU to thank the people whose incredible work with technology has made my job(…)
The last two or three weeks of a semester are hard. Teachers are making the big, final push to the end, covering those last little bits of the content and getting students ready for the final exam. Students are getting sick (or are just coming back from being sick), their brains are feeling bloated and(…)
Each winter, I use part of my holiday break for various projects I don’t normally have time to do, including stocking my freezer with homemade meals, running batches of errands that require a car (which I don’t own), and performing maintenance and upgrades (beyond the basic security updates, which I do throughout the year) for(…)
Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to spend two days asking “I wonder what THIS button does?” and “Gee, I wonder how I could make THAT happen?” in the (virtual) company of two of my favorite people – the Right Rev Jim Groom, and LLU’s own Barbara Sawhill. Our official task was to re-imagine a fully-online language(…)
As I mentioned above, I had the very good fortune to be invited to Japan by the organizers of the LET as a former president of IALLT in order to celebrate their 50th anniversary/conference at the Yokohama, Japan hosted by the brand new Yokohama City Municipal Yokohama Science Frontier High School (a school that has(…)
This entry is part 18 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyThe lesson: Understand how to form and use comparisons of equality and comparisons of inequality. Figure out the superlative and how to use it. Learn all of the irregular forms. Make it make sense. Make it work. Have fun. Go. The semester is winding(…)
It has taken more than 7 years, and Ryan blogged about it two years ago… but it looks like non english domain names are coming in 2010. Over half of the users of the internet do not use English as their native language, and yet it is currently the primary language for domain names and(…)
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 35 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyJanuary 3, 2009: Before we broke for the Winter Break, I was lucky enough to converse with language and technology colleagues from Case Western Reserve University. Case has a large and growing presence in Second Life, and when I received an email from my(…)