For all you windows users out there, the wonderful Comic Life by Plasq is no longer Mac-only. What a great program for language learning and creating teaching materials. If you haven’t used it, make sure to download the 30-day trial version. Enjoy!
By the way, as an introductory offer they give out this $5 coupon.

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Modern technology is great for language learning and teaching, no doubt. And it saves time. But sometimes we spend more than in the good ol’ days. I’m talking about computers answering your phone calls.
I’ve spent quite a few hours on the job trying to talk to the delivery company, the online retailer, or the airline […]

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I have recently written about online karaoke. Well that site got an update (read=”was taken over”) and now features a lot more than online karaoke. Loosely based on the Sims, a language learning and technology classic, the site (called”Sims On Stage“) allows users to write or record stories, poetry pr comedy clips. Standard web 2.0 […]

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Yesterday Erin and I presented several Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call it…) resources. One of of my favorite sites, VoiceThread, is great for simple narrated photo stories. If you’re creative, you can create games with the drawing feature (Where’s Waldo, What am I, Picture Guess - you get the idea.) But it’s […]

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Language learning can be so great because you will learn by doing things that would otherwise be considered un- or even counterproductive. Say going to a bar during a study abroad stay, playing a good computer game in a foreign language, mindlessly surfing the web, or of course watching TV.
This has been a difficult thing […]

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