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 [...]
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 [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 23, 2009
What I love about the new web is that I am constantly rediscovering Google tools that I knew were there all along. The other day I was digging around through Google’s Book Search feature, particularly the Advanced Book Search feature, in pursuit of Spanish grammar books that had fallen into the public domain due to [...]