Over the past ten days, I’ve spent a half-dozen hours on the phone with my ISP’s customer service line, trying to figure out why my intarwebs aren’t working. I politely described my issue to several different reps, answered the same Level 1 troubleshooting questions multiple times over (yes, in fact, I -have- checked to make [...]

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If you’re interested in following the goings-on at CALICO w/ IALLT 2008, there are several options:
1) The #iallt tweme, both at Hashtags and Twemes
2) Felix, Barbara, Doug and I will might be taking turns live-blogging here on the site.
3) The IALLT Learning Ning.
Are you at CALICO w/ IALLT and taking notes somewhere? Let us know [...]

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I was just checking my students’ blogs before calling it a night and discovered this extraordinary exchange between my student Jonah, and a Spaniard named Morgan.
Look at the time, and the care, and the detail that Morgan took to help Jonah with his Spanish. No one is paying or insisting that Morgan do this…he [...]

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This week we have changed gears slightly in my class and have moved from “Secuestro Express” and the kidnappings in Venezuela to “María llena de gracia” and the story of women who act as “mulas” and transport drugs from Colombia to the United States.
With each class and each topic we address, the lines between [...]

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