This entry is part 7 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyBefore the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted to get out at least one more post here on LLU to thank the people whose incredible work with technology has made my job(…)
Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to spend two days asking “I wonder what THIS button does?” and “Gee, I wonder how I could make THAT happen?” in the (virtual) company of two of my favorite people – the Right Rev Jim Groom, and LLU’s own Barbara Sawhill. Our official task was to re-imagine a fully-online language(…)
I became aware of FlickrPoet via a tweet on Twitter, and have been playing around with it a bit. Here is how it works: you type in a poem or a phrase and it searches Flickr’s public collection for images tagged with those words, and then voila! it constructs a series of images in a(…)
This entry is part 19 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyJust a note to sing the praises of two wonderful and simple tools for digital storytelling and to explain how they could be used in the language classroom. The first tool is Five Card Flickr Stories. People tag their fotos on Flickr with “5cardflickr”(…)
February 20, 2009: On Fridays, my students in HISP 205 have decided that we should play games…games that stimulate thinking and conversation in Spanish. They had a couple of suggestions like Taboo. I was thinking more diabolical thoughts… thanks to the games like those played at UMW Faculty Academy: aka Deck Wars(scroll to the middle(…)
Recently I’ve noticed a trend towards taking web apps and integrated them more fully into the desktop environment so they act more like normal locally-installed software. (Which seems to defeat the purpose of using web apps? But I digress.) This week’s episode is an overview of three major pieces of that trend: the $200 Walmart(…)
Note: this podcast is now available. Access the downloadable file, or stream this episode using the built-in player: Oh we are going to be so clever tonight. As listed below, Barbara Ganley and this Barbara here are going to be talking about our recent paper that was published by the Knowledge Tree e-journal tonight, beginning(…)
More and more of my work is done online – not via email or phone, but through the intartubes themselves. This week’s episode of Tech-o Tuesday focuses on some on the collaboration webapps that help me get my work done, no matter where I am, and no matter with whom I need to connect. Check(…)
My dear colleague and comrade/comadre in blogging, Barbara Ganley, has been chiding me via Twitter about how long it has been since I have been here on the blog. She is the queen of slow blogging (borrowing the term from the slow food movement.)Her posts emerge as multimedia feasts to savor and to ponder (I(…)
Okay so I have been smitten by this little thing called Twitter (thank you, I think, bg and geekymom and the folks at The Faculty Academy for starting me down this slippery path) And now that I see that I can integrate my “twitterings” into my Skype mood messages and Growl, and now even into(…)