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July 18, 2011

History For All

How Earth Made Us is a documentary series produced by the BBC. Because it is available on YouTube, there are many options available to an ESL instructor who wants to use the series in the classroom. Continue reading →

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May 22, 2011

Interacting With Video

Online discussion boards / sticky notes can now be annotated directly onto YouTube videos, providing an opportunity to integrate the discussion of the video directly into the video. Continue reading →

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April 13, 2011

Kinect-Based IWB

The Kinect-Based Interactive Whiteboard is coming. Someone just has to put the pieces together. Continue reading →

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March 2, 2011

Group Work

Working in small groups is a natural choice for the language classroom. But does group work work? Some suggestions that can make group work more engaging. Continue reading →

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December 9, 2010

Open and Kinect

Some examples of some interesting Kinect-based projects that hackers and tinkerers have come up with, now that the Kinect hardware has been released into the wild. Continue reading →

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August 27, 2010

Quality Matters in Online Learning

Quality Matters is an organization dedicated to promoting and improving the quality of online education. The QM rubric is a good guide to best practices in online education and online course components. Continue reading →

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June 25, 2010

Se un perdedor

Part of the chorus in Loser by Beck, above, is soy un perdedor, which translates to I am a loser. The title of this post is se un perdedor which translates to Be a loser, an important distinction. After reading … Continue reading →

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June 12, 2010

Augmented Reality Games

I’ve been thinking about digital games for language learning quite a bit lately and a number of questions have come up, the biggest of which is: Why are so many educational games so lame? I love the idea of learning … Continue reading →

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