By many measures of variety, the first session of our 10-minute Tech Talks for Fall ’14 was a great success: it brought together lectors and graduate students, faculty from Yale and beyond, and presenters from 6 time zones apart for…
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Courses on Language at Yale this Fall
Yale offers about 50 languages for study in the classroom, and many more through the DILS program at the CLS. With classes starting tomorrow, Aug. 27, and shopping period underway for the next two weeks, it’s a great time to decide…
Notes on distance teaching and learning from UW-Madison
[updated 8-19 10:00am] [updated 8-18 9:00am] I’ve arrived and settled in at UW’s annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, from today to Thursday (Aug 12-14). I’ve come with a few hats on: at a general level, trying to glean…
Images from the May 12 Distance Education Symposium
How does blogging fit in to L2 learning…today?
Summer professional development opportunity roundup
It’s hard to believe spring is right around the corner with the cold weather we’ve been having in New Haven and across the East Coast. Yet, a steady stream of announcements about professional development opportunities for language educators during summer…
Irreducible differences and legitimacy gaps: Observations from the BLC colloquium
On Friday I had the pleasure of joining many colleagues and friends at UC Berkeley for the first and last sessions of a one-day colloquium organized by Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang, entitled “The legitimacy gap: Multilingual native language teachers…
10m Tech Talks: Vocabulary, forums, and an A–>Z list
International Mother Language Day 2/21
As a number of language faculty and CLS staff prepare to participate in the upcoming Conference on Heritage/Community Languages at UCLA–which focuses primarily on the situation of language learners in the United States–another day of significance for heritage and community language…
The classroom sublime—In search of “the magic beyond the MOOCs”
Feb. 5 Tech Talks: A few keywords & issues to run with
Several brave souls trudged through the snow and sleet on Wednesday, Feb. 5, for our inaugural 10-minute Tech Talks event. They were rewarded by three inspiring presentations–Anna Iacovella on using Facebook to extend learning in her Italian classes, Dinny Aletheiani…
How do you teach language with film?: Next steps from the Brown Bag (& LFLFC workshop)
Chicago Language Symposium CfP until 2/1
The organizers of the April 25-26 Chicago Language Symposium, “Bridges to Everywhere: Language Learning Collaborations”, are soliciting proposals from Yale language faculty, as well as other members of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, the Committee on Institutional Collaboration,…
CLS on Twitter, 2013 Edition
Edublogs awards voting underway
Edublogs, a popular educational blogging service, has its annual Edublogs awards underway. I found out about it from Edutopia on Twitter, one of my favorites for insights into ed-tech trends in K-12 education in the U.S. Although voting procedures and…
10m Tech Talks #3: DIALANG, OWL…BINGO!
10-min. Tech Talks #2: MoPad, Facebook, WordPress
Ten-Minute Tech Talks #1: Twiddla, Diigo, Classes*v2
Language teaching with art: Ideas from yesterday’s YUAG visit
CULTURA here, there, and there: Thoughts after the Brown workshop
After this past weekend’s Language and Culture Workshop at Brown, my head is still full of thoughts about teaching culture in the language classroom, using technologies new and old. In a full day of presentations and small-group discussions, about 40…
Glenn Levine on Americans studying abroad in Germany: Lingering questions of technology
Last Wednesday, UC Irvine Professor of German and German Language Program Director Glenn Levine gave the first in a series of lunchtime lectures at the CLS, raising more questions about the quality of U.S. university students’ German study abroad experiences…