Kevin Gaugler | January 23, 2009
What I love about the new web is that I am constantly rediscovering Google tools that I knew were there all along. The other day I was digging around through Google’s Book Search feature, particularly the Advanced Book Search feature, in pursuit of Spanish grammar books that had fallen into the public domain due to [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 14, 2009
Some of you might have noticed that our site was down for a couple of days. Things went awry when I installed another program that corrupted some key WordPress files. Like any serious professional who cares deeply about what s/he does, I completely freaked out upon reading “Fatal error” in lieu of “World A.T. Ways” [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 7, 2009
If you teach a foreign language in the United States, you are probably familiar with ACTFL’s National Standards for Foreign Language Education. In all honesty, remembering the standards, also known as the five C’s, has been like remembering the seven dwarfs for me. I can usually name off all but one when pressed, but could [...]