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 [...]
Barbara Lindsey | September 21, 2009
For many of us, these past few weeks marked the beginning of a new academic year. As students returned to campus they brought with them their mobile phones, those ever-present, always-on devices that have become the bane of many an instructor. A few of our faculty, not unlike elsewhere, have suggested an outright ban on [...]
Barbara Lindsey | August 20, 2009
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 [...]
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In spite of all the talk about Twitter in connection with the Iranian elections and all things international as of late, I doubt that many of my university colleagues will be including Twitter on a syllabus this fall. I’ve talked before about the “Twitter Cycle” or the fact that, at first glance, Twitter appears trivial, and even, [...]
Kevin Gaugler | June 13, 2009
I just finished watching the 1 hour and 20 minute demo of Google’s new product, WAVE, to be released to the general public later this year. What might speak volumes about the product is that the video held my attention for that long. The Google team that developed this application set out to move organizational communication beyond [...]