One of the many tensions that is present in a classroom that encourages experimentation and growth and reaching outside vs hiding inside is that of THE CALENDAR. It would be so wonderful if we did not have to be put in the position of altering the flow of learning and the shape of a [...]

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Language Lab Unleashed #20
Many thanks to Todd Bryant (Language Program Administrator at Dickinson College), Felix Kronenberg (Instructor of German and Director of the Foreign Language Resource Center at Pomona College) and Doug Canfield (Coordinator of the Language Resource Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville) for participating in LLU#20.
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In addition to Todd Bryant’s brilliant Mixxer tool, there are some new (okay well new to me) additions to the tools that help you find Skype partners for language exchanges.
Todd Told me about SoZiety… but I am wondering if Xlingo is SoZiety in an earlier form…comments?
SoZiety
Xlingo

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The world may or may not be flat … but from my perspective it’s becoming very small, very quickly.
A couple of weeks ago a new acquaintance suggested I read the transcribed text of a talk danah boyd gave on G/localization (the intersection of global information and local interaction, to borrow danah’s phrase). In the talk, [...]

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