Digital Technologies in Foreign Language Learning
Looking forward to this conference. I have a paper in for consideration for it. I’ll find out if it will be accepted in a couple of weeks. Here is the link to the site. Either way, I am interested in seeing James Paul Gee. It looks like a fair chunk of his work will be [...]
Schwartz and JSTOR
Here is a comment I left over on the Chronicle for Higher Education about the Schwartz case. Reading through the comments it seems like there are a few misconceptions about publishing Journal articles that people might not know. I have never met anyone who got paid by an academic journal to publish. (If those [...]
Google Plus and the classroom
So, the education push about Google Plus has started. For those who may be unfamiliar, both of you, Google Plus is a google implementation of a social network. Somewhat akin to facebook in the ability to connect to people you know and twitter to broadcast to people you may know, yet somehow not quite either [...]
The semester winds down in Japan
Hey all, The semester is finally winding down and the students are all in a panic about finals and final projects. Teachers on the other hand are furiously grading work in an attempt to have all of the grades finished and ready to turn in on the last day of classes. No one really wants [...]
Thoughts on the Tohoku Earthquake
Yeah, so last week was rough. I had felt the original quake while at home in Osaka and posted that up on twitter, then went looking around for mor info on what was going on. Then, every ten minutes, things got worse. And worse. And it wouldn’t stop. I was stuck on Twitter, Al Jazeera [...]
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