My dear colleague and comrade/comadre in blogging, Barbara Ganley, has been chiding me via Twitter about how long it has been since I have been here on the blog. She is the queen of slow blogging (borrowing the term from the slow food movement.)Her posts emerge as multimedia feasts to savor and to ponder [...]

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September 6, 8 p.m. EDT LLU #21: Language Learners and Anxiety:
Elaine Horwitz, University of Texas-Austin, on anxiety and second language learning as well as her recent book “Becoming a Language Teacher:A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching” Dr Horwitz’ work was recently highlighted in Inside Higher Ed as well as [...]

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One of the many tensions that is present in a classroom that encourages experimentation and growth and reaching outside vs hiding inside is that of THE CALENDAR. It would be so wonderful if we did not have to be put in the position of altering the flow of learning and the shape of a [...]

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The Changing Role of the Teacher-Technologist: How connected learning, meaningful collaborations and reciprocal apprenticeships are changing the FL teaching/learning experience (Barbara Sawhill, Oberlin College)
Tensions
Social software / collaborative technologies are now safe to use for teaching / learning / exploring without worrying about their expiration. These tools (blogs, wikis, Twitter, etc) allow many voices to come [...]

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UPDATED! I just figured out how to add [annoying] music to the slideshow! Turn down your sound!

With thanks to my (now former) student Ariana, I learned about this nifty little slide show program called, appropriately enough, Slide. I am playing with it here to show some the pictures of my drive [...]

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