Barbara Lindsey | April 21, 2011
Every Thursday night (8-9 p.m. EST: Time zone converter) for the past four months language educators across the United States have been meeting online to discuss and share ways to improve their professional practice. They do this using Twitter, the free online service that allows you to send out public or private messages of 140 [...]
Kevin Gaugler | July 10, 2009
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, [...]
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 (1101)Barbara Lindsey | March 17, 2009
I spent November 5th, election night in the United States, with about a thousand people. I wasn’t downtown in some large convention hall with a group of my friends. In fact, I had never met any of these folks before that night. They hailed from all over the world and the one thing that connected [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 7, 2009
If you teach a foreign language in the United States, you are probably familiar with ACTFL’s National Standards for Foreign Language Education. In all honesty, remembering the standards, also known as the five C’s, has been like remembering the seven dwarfs for me. I can usually name off all but one when pressed, but could [...]