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 [...]
Barbara Lindsey | July 6, 2010
For Travis Allen the gift of an iPhone for Christmas in 2009 quickly became much more than the increasingly common rite of passage coveted by many American tweens and teens. As you’ll hear in this interview, the iPhone profoundly changed how Travis experienced himself as a learner. At the time, Travis was just seventeen. We [...]
The wATw Podcast: An Interview with Travis Allen [ 36:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1906)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 [...]
The wATw Podcast: An Interview with Jon Pennington [ 52:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2253)Barbara Lindsey | May 25, 2009
On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey. You’ll notice some issues with the recording in a few sections, but we hope they won’t detract from the quality of [...]
The wATw Podcast: An Interview with Enza Antenos-Conforti [ 53:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1157)