Barbara Lindsey | December 31, 2008
CC License: Old Man Time by Mr. Greenjeans As the Gregorian calendar year of 2008 draws to a close, I wanted to share with all of you my baker’s dozen list of educators who have made an impact on me. These are folks whose online contributions have stretched my thinking, informed my teaching and contributed [...]
Kevin Gaugler | December 28, 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, I wish to present a list of my top ten tools for language educators in 2008. These are tools that have become part of my regular routine as a technology-oriented language educator. I might even venture to say that these tools have been indispensable to me in 2008. Lingro [...]
Barbara Lindsey | December 21, 2008
In today’s episode Kevin and I connected via Skype with Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Although the target audience for Liz’s book is those involved in the K-12 realm, an examination of the table of contents quickly makes clear that this book is for [...]
Barbara Lindsey | December 17, 2008
CC License: Confusing Signals by Luis Argerich In a previous post, Kevin spoke about copyright and Creative Commons from the perspective of a faculty member. Just ten years ago a significant amount of my time as a language lab director involved enforcing and documenting compliance with various media copyright requirements. In some languages, for example, [...]
Kevin Gaugler | December 13, 2008
In a previous post Barbara described the power of social networks to create real change in the world. In this post I would like to discuss how, as instructors, many of us view social networks as silly, foreign and time consuming. It’s no wonder that we so quickly shy away from participating in online social [...]
