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Learning to ask hard questions in another language

February 28th, 2008 · Barbara · 2 Comments ·

Week four of my Spanish conversation class has just finished. I am teaching 2X a week vs 3X a week…my hope was that we would have more time on task if we met for an hour and 15 minutes (vs 3X a week @ 50 minutes). The class meets at night. [...]

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Planning for the spring semester

February 6th, 2008 · Barbara · 4 Comments ·

Dry Erase Planning

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Fear 2.0: the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Digidramas

January 31st, 2008 · Barbara · 1 Comment ·

This week I had the honor to make a presentation at ELI in San Antonio with 4 remarkable women: Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Laura Blankenship, Barbara Ganley and Martha Burtis…”The Fear 2.0 Dream Team Bloghers” as Brian Lamb reportedly referred to us later in the week.

Our topic was Fear…the fear that we as educators, technologists, individuals [...]

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Fear 2.0, Web 2.0, Life 2.0 & Language Learning: Why “stranger danger” isn’t.

January 8th, 2008 · Barbara · 12 Comments ·

In a few weeks, I will have the pleasure and the privilege of presenting at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), with 4 other women teachers/technologists. I am honored to be a part of this extraordinary group of women, thinkers, and troublemakers (heh heh). The conference title and theme is “Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing [...]

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LLU-EdTech Talk Reunion and videofest: December 6th 8 p.m. EST

December 3rd, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·

Exactly two years ago (really!) this blog began. My first blog post was about what I was cooking for dinner for my parents. Gritty stuff (yawn)
This blog began on the edublogs site (thank you James Farmer) and then lived for a little while with the Edtech talk guys and then eventually got housed closer to [...]

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