Middlebury College’s Department of History made headlines at the end of January when they announced a ban on the use of Wikipedia as a reference. Later in February, a Classics course at Oberlin College was required to use Wikipedia for a research assignment. These stories are but two of many that have prompted educators across [...]

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Barbara is teaching this semester, Erin is watching servers blow up (jes kiddin’), the finches and the fish in the lab are multiplying like…like…well, finches and fish…and we are planning a few webcasts for the Spring. We know what we might like to talk about, and we are putting some things together…but what would [...]

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[ 14 December 2006 8:00 pm to 12 January 2007 9:00 pm. ] For our final broadcast of 2006, we were delighted to (finally) get the chance to talk with Dawn Skorczewski, Director of University Writing and Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University and author of “Teaching One Moment a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom” (UMass Press, 2005).

You are also welcome to [...]

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[ 7 December 2006; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] We were joined this evening by Amanda Blasko of Oberlin College who spoke about her experiences using Moodle for creating materials in her 300 level Russian class. Amanda talked about why this tool has worked for her in the context of her classroom.

As we were beginning to talk about the social constructivist educational theory [...]

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[ 30 November 2006; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thanks to all who joined us on Thursday (November 30th) for Language Lab Unleashed #16a … the podcast and the chat room archive are now available!

Phil Wolff, Editor-in-Chief of SkypeJournal, Steve Sloan of San Jose State University, Cal Frye Networking Guy from Oberlin College, Doug Worsham from the University of Wisconsin, and Ed Dente from [...]

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