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 [...]
Kevin Gaugler | February 9, 2009
In a previous post Barbara and I interviewed Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Liz got me thinking about all the ways we can use cell phones in the language classroom. It’s surprising that phones are not used more in our teaching already. First, mobile phones are [...]
Barbara Lindsey | December 21, 2008
In today’s episode Kevin and I connected via Skype with Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Although the target audience for Liz’s book is those involved in the K-12 realm, an examination of the table of contents quickly makes clear that this book is for [...]
