Kevin Gaugler | October 29, 2008
Have you ever been to Google’s homepage? Look to the right of the search box in the middle of your screen. Notice anything of interest to you? Every time I ask teachers to do this in a workshop I receive puzzled looks from the audience. At first, language educators feel the exercise to be a [...]
Barbara Lindsey | October 27, 2008
Underage drinking. Risqué behavior. By now most of us have heard of or even seen for ourselves inappropriate content posted to Facebook and MySpace, those online social networking sites favored by so many of today’s youth. Indeed, such excesses function as cautionary tales for our students, warning them of the academic, personal and economic consequences [...]
Kevin Gaugler | October 23, 2008
In a previous post, Barbara gave a general description of RSS and how to begin subscribing to feeds. I have to be honest, when she first told me that she wanted to write about the basics of RSS I thought it might be too elementary for our readers. RSS has become such an integral part of my [...]
Barbara Lindsey | October 21, 2008
In today’s episode Kevin and I had the honor of interviewing Nina Garrett, who recently retired from her position as the Director of the Center for Language Study at Yale University where she also served as Director of Language Study and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics. Nina has contributed significantly to the field of computer-assisted language [...]
The wATw Podcast: An Interview with Nina Garrett [ 1:16:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1810)Kevin Gaugler | October 19, 2008
Whereas once it was thought that secrecy gave you an edge over your rivals, openness now brings competitive advantage. Web companies are now opening up their networks and sharing precious code in order to become more relevant to their user base. In order to compete with Google’s move to a more open platform, Facebook began [...]