Kevin Gaugler | December 20, 2012
The recent addition of Communities to Google+ has really won me over. I have always been a bit enamored with the service since it debuted and my crush grew deeper even more with the addition of HangOuts which allows up to 10 people to have a video chat. That HangOut can even be broadcasted, recorded and [...]
Kevin Gaugler | December 19, 2012
It has been quite a while since I blogged. There are several reasons for this. 1. I tweeted, favorited, liked, blogged, uploaded, starred, shared, poked, +1ed, subscribed, tagged, clipped and even downloaded constantly. I didn’t have time to think about any of it. Well, I’ve given it all some thought. 2. I felt too [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 21, 2011
Every Thursday night (8-9 p.m. EST: Time zone converter) for the past four months language educators across the United States have been meeting online to discuss and share ways to improve their professional practice. They do this using Twitter, the free online service that allows you to send out public or private messages of 140 [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 20, 2011
In March I spoke at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenneesee about the future of language education and post-secondary education as a whole. Particularly, I set out to speak about the ACTFL map for 21st Century Skills and how I designed and have been teaching for nearly a decade a course that attempts to fosters 21st century skills [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 14, 2011
A great session I attended at NECTFL 2011 was The Impact of the National Standards on Language Education & National Initiatives with Marty Abbott, Eileen Glisan and June Phillips. Shared in this session were the results of a national (U.S.) survey of world language teachers on how and to what extent the Standards for Foreign [...]