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Guatemala Goes Global: K’iche’ Language Now Taught Online
We are launching lessons in K’iche’, which is an indigenous language in Guatemala… View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: global goes) We are now offering one-to-one lessons in K’iche’ and...
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3D Virtual Tourism for Language Learning: The Forbidden City
The Forbidden Palace in Beijing has been rebuilt as a 3D mini-virtual world by IBM and could be used not just for virtual tourism, but for language learning too. The Virtual Forbidden City is, of...
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Twiddla: collaborative graffiti in a language lesson!
How about drawing all over a website in class – web 2.0 style? Twiddla is an odd concept, but one that is proving useful in language lessons. It is a free website that combines a whiteboard with other...
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Are Textbooks Still Relevant in a Web 2.0 World?
Jane Petring of Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Longueuil, Québec) asks this very question in an article and forthcoming discussion at TESOL 2009. She notes that “materials writers need to take an honest...
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Relevance, Motivation and Communication: Connecting Dogme and Web 2.0
The previous blog post on Dogme 2.0 sketches out how the web is becoming increasingly a normal part of our lives as well as an enormous source of both language learning content and opportunities to...
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Wikitravel and other wikis – students as authors
I intended to write this blog as a follow up to the one on students writing for Wikipedia – and I checked back to see when it was written – almost exactly a year ago. Since then quite a few articles...
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Augmented Reality Language Learning – Discussion in Second Life
Last Thursday I met with other language educators in Second Life to discuss Augmented Reality Language Learning and in particular the ideas and suggestions I presented in the “Augmented Reality...
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Skype has Screen Sharing
The new Skype (4.1) has a screen sharing facility that allows one of the participants to show his/her screen to the other. So far it is limited to just one user (not both sharing at the same time)....
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Exploring out-of-class learning, mobile devices and Dogme language learning
Language classes account for a relatively limited amount of the student’s learning – and much (perhaps most) of the learning is done informally, out-of-class. So, how can we as teachers change what we...
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Dictionaries, Phrases and Language Learning
Are dictionaries changing to become more phrase-based rather than word based? There are now a number of ways to look up the meaning of phrases online that make me to think that the very nature of...
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