Kevin Gaugler | April 3, 2011
Last year, for the first time, I taught an intensive two-week pre-college Spanish summer course at Marist College. In designing the course I set out to produce a 21st century Spanish composition and conversation course. In the class students discussed global issues, enhanced their media and information literacy skills, explored Hispanic culture in their local [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 2, 2011
I’ve included here the audiovisuals for my recent presentation at NECTFL 2011. The idea for the talk is the result of my own observations about my students’ inability (even my best students’ inability) to say numbers beyond 1000. Apparently, speaking about numbers and with numbers constituted a low-frequency activity in the language courses with these [...]
Kevin Gaugler | March 13, 2010
On March 12th I presented a plenary session at the MAALLT-SEALLT 2010 joint conference, in which I shared my thoughts on the concept of thirdspace, the university and teaching as we know it. I first began thinking about thirdness in the context of Spain’s transition from a dictatorship to a democracy and the fiction it [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 27, 2010
Before Apple’s big announcement today, I made a prediction that Apple’s device would disrupt the textbook industry and consequently education, particularly language education, as we know it. Apple has built its iPad on the same popular platform that runs both the iPod Touch and the iPhone and has added a bookstore to its iTunes application [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 23, 2009
At the ACTFL09 conference I gave a talk entitled “The Technology of Classroom 007: Mobile Computing and Language Instruction”. In it I described a classroom at Marist College, room 007, where I occasionally teach. The irony of its number lies in the fact that it is a basement room, underground with no windows. I therefore [...]