In which I rediscover google-ol’-fashioned grammar books

| 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 [...]

In which language tools take their rightful place beside the oracle

| October 29, 2008


Have you ever been to Google’s homepage? Look to the right of the search box in the middle of your screen. Notice anything of interest to you? Every time I ask teachers to do this in a workshop I receive puzzled looks from the audience. At first, language educators feel the exercise to be a [...]