On Monday last week, my colleague Dave Malinowski and I were able to sit in on Yale’s first Online Education Open Forum of the year. The event was live-tweeted by @Yale_Online (scroll down to Jan. 27 tweets), and videos of the presentations, such as those by…
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
With all the year-end reflections, New Year’s prognostications, and two-week check-ins on how you’re doing with your resolutions anyway, it seemed like a perfect time and place to think out loud about where the CLS has come on its primary…
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…
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…
CLS Instructional Innovation Workshop to Be Held on May 14 & 15
Please make plans to attend the Instructional Innovation Workshop on Testing and Assessment in Language Learning Two days of workshops and lectures presented by Meg Malone, Senior Testing Associate, Center for Applied Linguistics and Cathy Baumann, Director of Assessment and…