Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Top 100 Language Blogs of 2009

The Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 is the largest language blog competition and is hosted annually by bab.la and Lexiophiles. It is aimed at finding the best blogs related to languages and awarding language-loving bloggers. This year there were 473 nominated blogs from 26 different countries in four categories.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Gateway Drug to Textual Analysis

Using Wordles seems to be on many people's minds lately.
This post from ProfHacker offers a fresh and thoughtful perspective.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The five minute twitter verb crunch drill

Just saying the name makes you want to try it out. This is a pretty creative technology-based language exercise - a good example of where thinking differently about teaching tools can lead...

Monday, October 12, 2009

The end of the email era

An article in today's Wall Street Journal has just announced the end of the email era.
Actually, I think it's been on life support for some time already.
This leads me to ask, "Has 'the end of email' happened yet in your life, your classroom, your department, your campus or your college?"

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Integrating Technology for Teaching and Learning




This is a truly international online course designed to help ESL instructors share ways of integrating technology into face-to-face and online classes.

The course uses Moodle as its CMS and Ning as its social space.

It starts on November 1, 2009, runs for 4 weeks... and it is free. It is sponsored by TESOL, our leading professional association for Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages.

Even if your field is not ESL, you might wish to simply take a look and see how a course like this is organized, AND how it feels to be working together with teachers from around the world in a common space.

Creating a Socratic style classroom

Making a change in your comfort zone can be the true technology revolution in education...

See it in action at BYU - Idaho
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