When someone asks me what I do, I have a hard time answering them. My job title is Educational Technology Specialist, and I do sometimes call myself a technologist. But what do either of those labels mean? The latter is a catch-all term that accurately matches the vagary of what I do on any given [...]

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This summer, interspersed between our experimentations with Moodle for language learning, the Summer Leadership Meeting for IALLT, a workshop at Middlebury on using social software for language teaching, and BG, GeekyMom and my presentation at BlogHer, I have been helping my sister and my brother keep an eye on my parents in Maine as they [...]

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