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“did -you- have anything to do with this?”

March 23rd, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

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Teaching cultural literacies with social software

March 22nd, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

Making my way through the dozens of emails I get in a day (GeekyMom you win…I think if I got as many emails as you do I think I would just cry), I found this wee gem from a language textbook publishing company:
Dear Professor:
We at (name of publisher) are very excited to extend to [...]

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DULAP and languages and blogging in the news

February 21st, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

You rock Jan Marston… indeed we should all stop believing that language learning begins and ends and is forever dependent upon the classroom. Here is a link to the article from Inside Higher Ed on their work…
Feel free to check out our interview with the DULAP folks in May 2006 in the LLU [...]

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Even college presidents do it…

November 26th, 2006 · Barbara · No Comments ·

Depending upon whether the NYTimes website will let you in or not, here is a link to an interesting article about college presidents who blog. (I love the picture of President McGuire’s office… I feel so much better now about the state of my home office).

In case you cannot get to the article, here [...]

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The messiness of it all: Assessment

October 2nd, 2006 · Barbara · 1 Comment ·

I am involved in the writing/evaluating of a grant request for a local school that would, as part of its request, consider using collaborative learning tools to promote learning inside and also outside of the classroom. There was interest from the teachers in using tools such a blogging, wikis, Skype and even [...]

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