Barbara Lindsey | November 8, 2008
I walked into our lab the morning of November 5th and found Liz, one of our student staff members, excitedly showing Jorge, her co-worker, pictures posted to Facebook of a spontaneous celebratory rally she took part in just hours before. As I stopped to look, she opened her phone to show me a picture she [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 6, 2008
I remember when videotapes “revolutionized” language education by bringing authentic films and quotidian scenes of the host culture into the classroom. Well, just the other day, JVC, the last company to make stand alone VCRs, announced that the company will no longer produce this former staple of the foreign language classroom. In spite of this [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 3, 2008
In this post, I’d like to expand upon the conversation we had with Bill Ferriter and discuss further how online social interactions between peers has shifted notions of traditional peer-review in higher education. If you have a tenure-track position or hope to have a tenure-track position at an institution of higher education, chances are you [...]