http://www.worldatways.com Around the World in A.cademic T.echnology Ways: Adventures in Education, Languages, Culture and the New Web Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Copyright © 2010 The World A.T. Ways feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) Education 1440 education, languages, CALL, international, culture Episodic adventures across the globe in education, languages, culture and the new web Twice a month Kevin and Barbara will interview the creators of cutting-edge tools for the classroom as well as educators who have developed best practices for them. The wATW podcast hopes to help you sort through a mountain of innovation so that you can keep up with the latest innovations in educational technology, particularly those related to the instruction of languages, literature and culture. Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey feedback@worldatways.com No no http://www.worldatways.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/cAsTaWays2.jpg http://www.worldatways.com 144 144 http://www.worldatways.com/2010/01/31/in-which-apple-gate-is-debated-and-discussed/ http://www.worldatways.com/2010/01/31/in-which-apple-gate-is-debated-and-discussed/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:52:10 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1726 http://www.worldatways.com/2010/01/31/in-which-apple-gate-is-debated-and-discussed/feed/ 0 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/11/23/actfl09/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/11/23/actfl09/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:28:57 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1685 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/11/23/actfl09/feed/ 0 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/09/21/in-which-we-traverse-uncharted-territories-hic-sunt-mobiles/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/09/21/in-which-we-traverse-uncharted-territories-hic-sunt-mobiles/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:54:53 +0000 Barbara Lindsey http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1641 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/09/21/in-which-we-traverse-uncharted-territories-hic-sunt-mobiles/feed/ 3 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/08/20/casta-ways-an-interview-with-jon-pennington/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/08/20/casta-ways-an-interview-with-jon-pennington/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:17:50 +0000 Barbara Lindsey http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1585 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/08/20/casta-ways-an-interview-with-jon-pennington/feed/ 2 52:25 Once again Twitter worked its networking magic and led us to Jon Pennington, who is a high school teacher of Spanish at Hunterdon Central High ... Once again Twitter worked its networking magic and led us to Jon Pennington, who is a high school teacher of Spanish at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey as well as an adjunct professor of Spanish at the College of New Jersey. What caught our attention and led to this interview is Jon's Spanish Connects Us project, an audio blog initiative connecting language learners with native speakers. Coming this fall, Jon will expand on this concept with a new undertaking called Language Connects Us, which he envisions as a network of student blogs where language learners can display and get feedback on their work. Jon's initiatives were borne out of a desire to provide his students with "personalized and authentic learning opportunities" to further their developing linguistic and intercultural skills. Jon's student-centered global undertaking has two main components: recorded audio exchanges his students conduct with native speakers via Skype or a similar free, internet telephony, and a reflective, evaluative piece students write about their experiences. Students can then bring all their work together on a digital bilingual portfolio site Jon created. For those interested in some of the practical aspects of his projects, Five Internet Tools We Use in Class to Enhance Student Language Learning gives students, their parents and other teachers the educational purpose and student learning objectives of the technology tools students use in his classes. The three sites Jon has used successfully to connect his students with native speakers are soZiety, the MIXXER and LiveMocha. Be sure to look for the forthcoming book, Web 2.0 The New Digital Literacies, edited by Michael Thomas, which will include Jon's case study of his use of Spanish Connects Us, Language Connects Us, Diigo and Twitter. In the course of our conversation Jon shared with us how he designed these projects to empower his students as life-long language learners and why he chose to make his and his students' work publicly available. We were interested to hear how these projects have re-energized Jon, both as a teacher and as a learner. We would do well to consider the powerful motivating effects these intercultural exchanges can have, not only in moving students into longer sequences of study and higher levels of linguistic and intercultural competencies, but also in keeping young teachers of Jon's caliber in the profession. As you listen to our interview with Jon and explore his sites, we hope you consider how such a simple yet powerfully effective project can function as dynamic student portfolios repositories for intercultural exchange artifacts action research projects a novel way to foster program articulation within and across institutions To find out more about Jon's work and where you can find him online, please point your browser to Jon D Pennington. As always, if you know someone who is doing great work integrating technology into the language curriculum or have a tool to share that would be of interest to our readers, please let us know! cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Jon Pennington by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,Teaching,and,Learning,,social,networks,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2009/07/10/globalmind/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/07/10/globalmind/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:46:12 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1531 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/07/10/globalmind/feed/ 2 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/06/13/wave/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/06/13/wave/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:46:51 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1511 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/06/13/wave/feed/ 4 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/31/prezi/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/31/prezi/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:13:16 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1362 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/31/prezi/feed/ 3 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/17/in-which-the-whole-world-is-all-atwitter/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/17/in-which-the-whole-world-is-all-atwitter/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:40:09 +0000 Barbara Lindsey http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1277 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/17/in-which-the-whole-world-is-all-atwitter/feed/ 6 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:49:27 +0000 Barbara Lindsey http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1238 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/feed/ 3 59:13 After a long hiatus we've started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, ... After a long hiatus we've started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, who now supports the global studies curriculum of San Jose Episcopal Day School as their technology integration specialist. Her blog, Langwitches: The Magic of Learning through Technology received two 2008 Edublogger nominations: for best tech support blog and best resource sharing blog and it's easy to see why. As we referenced in an earlier post, Silvia has generously shared carefully crafted, thoughtfully designed units that take advantage of the global, collaborative potential of a variety of technology innovations such as blogs and podcasts. In addition, she regularly posts 'how-tos' on using tools such as Google Earth, Mixbook and Wordle. If you take a look at the professional development blog Silvia created for school staff, you'll see how she has been able to leverage the impact of individual attendance at conference workshops in ways that go beyond the standard report to the department chair or departmental meeting discussion. And Silvia's Tech Connect is a great example of how we can include our students, parents and communities in our learning adventures. We had the chance to talk a bit about some of the global collaboration initiatives Silvia has fostered, in particular, her current Around the World with 80 Schools project that uses Skype to connect students at her school with students in schools all over the world. This is such an easy, inexpensive and flexible project that you can adapt for any language, any level and any curricular objective. It's well worth looking at these examples, especially as we explore new ways to connect to other discipline areas, address our students' learning preferences and develop our students' intercultural skills. Kevin and I wanted to mention Call Recorder, a nifty little program for the Mac that allows you to easily and inexpensively (~$15) record your Skype callsmdash;both audio and video, as Kevin shared with me in this podcast. Do you know someone who is doing great work integrating technology into the language curriculum? Or do you know a tool that would be of interest to our readers? Let us know! cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Silvia Tolisano by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,Teaching,,Teaching,and,Learning,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/03/marking/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/03/marking/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:15:42 +0000 Kevin Gaugler http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1194 http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/03/marking/feed/ 4