Barbara Lindsey | April 10, 2011
In the early nineties a blind student enrolled in my beginning level German course. In addition to her guide dog, she also had a student assistant who would help by describing to her the texts and graphics he saw displayed during class and tell her what I and the other students were doing. Since I [...]
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 [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 1, 2011
Kevin and I will be co-presenting at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages this weekend. We hope to give language educators an opportunity to explore the ways in which some of the currently experimental google lab projects could be used to support our language learners. What’s particularly intriguing is the way in [...]
Barbara Lindsey | December 6, 2010
Just under an hour ago, Tom Barrett, originator of the Interesting Ways series, started a new series on Google Forms in the Classroom. He used Twitter to invite educators to join him in creating this Creative Commons licensed work. In less than one hour (!) contributors from all over the world built this document from [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 31, 2010
The other day Wesley Fryer had some wonderful comments on his blog about my thoughts on the iPad. I figured I would repost his ideas here along with my response. How do you feel about Apple’s gated model of distribution? Will it ultimately imped access to information and consequently teaching and learning? Wesley Fryer: I [...]