Prior to coming to my current job in higher ed and language learning technology, I taught in a grade school. Grades 7-12 to be exact. The wonder years. (I now realize how wonderful they are, and how awesome my colleagues were then, now that I have kids of my own in that age [...]

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[ 18 May 2006; 9:00 pm; ] [audio:LanguageLabUnleashed9.mp3]
Thursday, 18 May 2006: LLU #9 features a conversation about how or why K-12 institutions and higher ed can/can’t/should/won’t work together to promote language learning in the US. Participants included Frank Kruger-Robbins of Pine Crest Preparatory School, and Rachida Primov from the University of Miami.

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This afternoon my husband and I attended a funeral for someone we had never met: Jim Gould. Well, at least, we had never met him physically. We met and collaborated and shared ideas with Jim through the wonders of technology… through Skype and blogs and wikis and chatrooms at a place called EducationBridges.
EducationBridges… a [...]

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[ 9 February 2006; 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] (click here to listen!)
Thursday, 9 February 2006: Technical problems continue for LLU as Barbara talks with Ewan McIntosh, Marianne Zemil, and Barbara Dieu about language learning and technology at the K-12 level.

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