http://www.worldatways.com Around the World in A.cademic T.echnology Ways: Adventures in Education, Languages, Culture and the New Web Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 ©Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldATwaysCast feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) feedback@worldatways.com(Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) Education 1440 education,languages,CALL,international,culture Episodic adventures across the globe in education, languages, culture and the new web Twice a month Kevin and Barbara will interview the creators of cutting-edge tools for the classroom as well as educators who have developed best practices for them. The wATW podcast hopes to help you sort through a mountain of innovation so that you can keep up with the latest in educational technology, particularly those related to the instruction of languages, literature and culture. Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey No no http://www.worldatways.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/cAsTaWays2.jpg http://www.worldatways.com 144 144 ©Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindseyeducation,languages,CALL,international,cultureEducation/Educational Technologyfeedback@worldatways.comKevin Gaugler and Barbara LindseySubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with ODEOSubscribe with Podnova http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/K-VC1rD1M40/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/08/20/casta-ways-an-interview-with-jon-pennington/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:17:50 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1585 Once again Twitter worked its networking magic and led us to Jon Pennington, who is a high school teacher of Spanish at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey as well as an adjunct professor of Spanish at the College of New Jersey. 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Once again Twitter worked its networking magic and led us to Jon Pennington, who is a high school teacher of Spanish at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey as well as an adjunct professor of Spanish at the College of New Jersey. What caught our attention and led to this interview is Jon's Spanish Connects Us project, an audio blog initiative connecting language learners with native speakers. Coming this fall, Jon will expand on this concept with a new undertaking called Language Connects Us, which he envisions as a network of student blogs where language learners can display and get feedback on their work. Jon's initiatives were borne out of a desire to provide his students with "personalized and authentic learning opportunities" to further their developing linguistic and intercultural skills. Jon's student-centered global undertaking has two main components: recorded audio exchanges his students conduct with native speakers via Skype or a similar free, internet telephony, and a reflective, evaluative piece students write about their experiences. Students can then bring all their work together on a digital bilingual portfolio site Jon created. For those interested in some of the practical aspects of his projects, Five Internet Tools We Use in Class to Enhance Student Language Learning gives students, their parents and other teachers the educational purpose and student learning objectives of the technology tools students use in his classes. The three sites Jon has used successfully to connect his students with native speakers are soZiety, the MIXXER and LiveMocha. Be sure to look for the forthcoming book, Web 2.0 The New Digital Literacies, edited by Michael Thomas, which will include Jon's case study of his use of Spanish Connects Us, Language Connects Us, Diigo and Twitter. In the course of our conversation Jon shared with us how he designed these projects to empower his students as life-long language learners and why he chose to make his and his students' work publicly available. We were interested to hear how these projects have re-energized Jon, both as a teacher and as a learner. We would do well to consider the powerful motivating effects these intercultural exchanges can have, not only in moving students into longer sequences of study and higher levels of linguistic and intercultural competencies, but also in keeping young teachers of Jon's caliber in the profession. As you listen to our interview with Jon and explore his sites, we hope you consider how such a simple yet powerfully effective project can function as dynamic student portfolios repositories for intercultural exchange artifacts action research projects a novel way to foster program articulation within and across institutions To find out more about Jon's work and where you can find him online, please point your browser to Jon D Pennington. As always, if you know someone who is doing great work integrating technology into the language curriculum or have a tool to share that would be of interest to our readers, please let us know! cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Jon Pennington by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,Teaching,and,Learning,,social,networks,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2009/08/20/casta-ways-an-interview-with-jon-pennington/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/CC-zHTNga6s/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/05/25/casta-ways-an-interview-with-enza-antenos-conforti/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 20:32:26 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1479 On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey. You&#8217;ll notice some issues with the recording in a few sections, but we hope they won&#8217;t detract from the quality of [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=CC-zHTNga6s:Y2rSkcSlZOc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/CC-zHTNga6s" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2009/05/25/casta-ways-an-interview-with-enza-antenos-conforti/feed/ 0 53:21 On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor ... On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey. You'll notice some issues with the recording in a few sections, but we hope they won't detract from the quality of the discussion. We had discussed the power of Twitter in a previous post and had listed Enza's e-twinning project with her Twitter colleague, Seth Dickens, as an example of how you could use Twitter educationally. We were eager to hear more about Enza's Twitter projects from her perspective as a seasoned classroom instructor and active researcher. Enza's research on her use of Twitter in university-level intermediate Italian classes can be found in the 2009 Calico monograph, The Next Generation: Social Networking and Online Collaboration in Foreign Language Learning and she writes frequently about her teaching and research on her blog, An Academic at Work. In this interview Enza shares with us how her use of Twitter with her students evolved through observation, feedback and reflection, the role her own Twitter community played in the construction and implementation of her projects, as well as her new iPod touch project slated for this coming fall. Enza's work shows how a transparent, accessible and collaborative approach to teaching and research, made possible through the judicious application of web 2.0 technologies, can have a profound impact on teaching and learning that extends far beyond our classroom walls. In that spirit of collaboration and sharing, here are some resources Enza mentioned in the course of our conversation that you will want to check out: Enza's inspiration for using Twitter in the classroom as described in her blog post, Twitter's "what are you doing?" is making families Enza's initial thoughts on the e-twinning project with Seth Dickens: E-Twinning: NJ Trento Seth's post project reflections: Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2 Enza's post project reflections: How We Skyped in the FL Classroom Martino Martini and Montclair University wiki for e-twinning project Crowdstatus to manage twitter groups Skype in Schools to find classes to communicate and collaborate with Enza's Twitter accounts: profeac, ivenus and profenza Research project by Professor Monica Rankin and graduate student Kim Smith of the University of Texas, Dallas that influenced Enza's upcoming iPod touch project: The Twitter Experiment: Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas Monica Rankin's follow-up conclusions: The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas Howard Rheingold's post on Twitter Literacy Twitterfone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice Learn10: Learn 10 new words a day As always, if you know someone who is doing great work integrating technology into the language curriculum or have a tool to share that would be of interest to our readers, please let us know! cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Enza Antenos-Conforti by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,Teaching,and,Learning,,Twitter,feeds,,social,networks Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2009/05/25/casta-ways-an-interview-with-enza-antenos-conforti/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/BHjoBvezQxw/ http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:49:27 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=1238 After a long hiatus we&#8217;ve started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, who now supports the global studies curriculum of San Jose Episcopal Day School as their technology integration specialist. Her blog, Langwitches: The Magic of Learning through Technology received two 2008 Edublogger [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=BHjoBvezQxw:2uYDCtmNLgA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/BHjoBvezQxw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/feed/ 2 59:13 After a long hiatus we've started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, ... After a long hiatus we've started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, who now supports the global studies curriculum of San Jose Episcopal Day School as their technology integration specialist. Her blog, Langwitches: The Magic of Learning through Technology received two 2008 Edublogger nominations: for best tech support blog and best resource sharing blog and it's easy to see why. As we referenced in an earlier post, Silvia has generously shared carefully crafted, thoughtfully designed units that take advantage of the global, collaborative potential of a variety of technology innovations such as blogs and podcasts. In addition, she regularly posts 'how-tos' on using tools such as Google Earth, Mixbook and Wordle. If you take a look at the professional development blog Silvia created for school staff, you'll see how she has been able to leverage the impact of individual attendance at conference workshops in ways that go beyond the standard report to the department chair or departmental meeting discussion. And Silvia's Tech Connect is a great example of how we can include our students, parents and communities in our learning adventures. We had the chance to talk a bit about some of the global collaboration initiatives Silvia has fostered, in particular, her current Around the World with 80 Schools project that uses Skype to connect students at her school with students in schools all over the world. This is such an easy, inexpensive and flexible project that you can adapt for any language, any level and any curricular objective. It's well worth looking at these examples, especially as we explore new ways to connect to other discipline areas, address our students' learning preferences and develop our students' intercultural skills. Kevin and I wanted to mention Call Recorder, a nifty little program for the Mac that allows you to easily and inexpensively (~$15) record your Skype callsmdash;both audio and video, as Kevin shared with me in this podcast. Do you know someone who is doing great work integrating technology into the language curriculum? Or do you know a tool that would be of interest to our readers? Let us know! cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Silvia Tolisano by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,Teaching,,Teaching,and,Learning,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2009/03/12/casta-ways-an-interview-with-silvia-tolisano/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/T7mYIdd2iLc/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/12/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-liz-kolb/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:51:49 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=750 In today&#8217;s episode Kevin and I connected via Skype with Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Although the target audience for Liz&#8217;s book is those involved in the K-12 realm, an examination of the table of contents quickly makes clear that this book is for [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=T7mYIdd2iLc:yHqXFS0k9xo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/T7mYIdd2iLc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/12/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-liz-kolb/feed/ 0 77:38 In today's episode Kevin and I connected via Skype with Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to ... In today's episode Kevin and I connected via Skype with Liz Kolb, author of the recently published Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. Although the target audience for Liz's book is those involved in the K-12 realm, an examination of the table of contents quickly makes clear that this book is for anyone who wants to understand the powerful educational potential of mobile technologies. Cell phones are arguably the most common mobile communication device owned and used by college students. In fact, while the 2008 Horizon Report predicted the adoption of mobile devices for widespread educational use within two to three years, the soon-to-be-published 2009 report has moved this time line up to one year or less. We owe it to our students to consider ways in which we can use these tools to provide additional opportunities for: skills development and refinement authentic, contextualized cultural experiences formative assessments just-in-time classroom feedback Consider, for example, what Abilene Christian University is doing with iPhones and iPods. In the course of our interview, Liz provided numerous practical examples of how language teachers could use cell phones in conjunction with the following web sites to take advantage of mobile technologies: Text Novel, an easy way to write a novel using your cell phone. See what Liz has to say about using this for education nbsp; myMiaMia, a free, text messaging and call-in information service. According to their FAQ page, myMiaMia plans to roll out Dutch and French versions by the end of this year and a Chinese version in 2009 nbsp; drop.io, a free, file sharing site that you can also use to easily create podcasts nbsp; FreeConferencePro for free conference calling for up to 200 people with recording and archiving features nbsp; HeyCosmos, an auditory phone polling system that Liz suggests could be used in language courses nbsp; Poll Everywhere, live sms or web-based polling that could easily replace those expensive clicker systems nbsp; Flagr, which allows you to set up a private or public map where you can geotag your pictures along with your messages nbsp; GeoGraffiti, which allows you to call in your oral messages and have them geotagged nbsp; GrandCentral, what Liz describes as an uuml;bervoicemail system Wesley Fryer has created a diigo group expressly for sharing resources about mobile learning. Kevin and I created a diigo group for followers of Around the World in A.T. Ways, where all of us can collect and share our finds related to language education and web 2.0 technologies. And don't forget Liz Kolb's regularly updated blog, From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learningmdash;it's a great resource for anyone interested in exploring cell phones in education. cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Liz Kolb by Barbara Lindsey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.worldatways.com/suggest-topics/. Podcast,,Teaching,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/12/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-liz-kolb/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/KIrjWPsTWxM/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/28/casta-ways-an-interview-with-artur-janc-of-lingro/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:09:24 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=581 Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today&#8217;s episode Kevin and I spoke with Artur Janc, a co-founder, along with Paul Kastner, of Lingro, an online environment that allows language learners to master vocabulary in context using a variety of innovative and learner-centric resources. The idea for Lingro germinated one summer when Artur picked up the Spanish [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=KIrjWPsTWxM:ikfpl3ysOTA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/KIrjWPsTWxM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/28/casta-ways-an-interview-with-artur-janc-of-lingro/feed/ 2 73:48 Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today's episode Kevin and I spoke with Artur Janc, a co-founder, along with Paul Kastner, of Lingro, an online environment ... Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today's episode Kevin and I spoke with Artur Janc, a co-founder, along with Paul Kastner, of Lingro, an online environment that allows language learners to master vocabulary in context using a variety of innovative and learner-centric resources. The idea for Lingro germinated one summer when Artur picked up the Spanish version of Harry Potter to practice his Spanish. Frustrated that each time he turned to look up a word in the dictionary it created a noticeable interruption in the flow of his reading, Artur developed a program that allows anyone to create personalized, contextualized vocabulary lists. His program won first prize in an annual competition at his alma mater, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He then collaborated with his colleague and friend, Paul Kastner, also a WPI graduate, to create an online, open source version, which they launched in November of 2007. There are three main components to Lingro: Translate, which offers an online dictionary in seven languages with more to come a web viewer that transposes any web page into a dynamic, clickable dictionary. What's more, you can do L1 to L2 as well as L2 to L2 searches. So if I go to a German website, as one of my options I can select German to German and have any word defined in Germanmdash;a great resource for those advanced language learners. Check out our web site using this tool. a file viewer that allows you to upload .txt, .doc or .pdf files to make those documents searchable as well Learn, where you can create word lists access your word search history as 'sentence history', keeping those vocabulary searches contextualized games, where you can have fun practicing your vocabulary lists Collaborate, which gives you the opportunity to participate in expanding the dictionary databases add lingro widgets to your own site create language learning lessons based on your web site Artur and Paul plan on launching a beta classroom version in January that will allow teachers to track what kinds of vocabulary students are learning and how well they are learning it. If you're interested in participating in this pilot and providing valuable feedback, please get in touch with them. We'll follow up in a few days with a screencast of some of these features of Lingro. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this interview with Artur Janc of Lingro. If you have a story to share about using Lingro, please let us know! Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,web,2.0 Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/28/casta-ways-an-interview-with-artur-janc-of-lingro/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/4kAFt6tL4bc/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:40:49 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=501 Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today&#8217;s episode, we had the chance to speak with Maggie Tsai, one of the co-founders of Diigo, a web-based research and knowledge-sharing environment. You could say Diigo combines all the best features of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and social networking sites like Facebook, which we discussed in a previous [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=4kAFt6tL4bc:8irxyA-9dus:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/4kAFt6tL4bc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/feed/ 3 68:53 Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today's episode, we had the chance to speak with Maggie Tsai, one of the co-founders of Diigo, a web-based research ... Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today's episode, we had the chance to speak with Maggie Tsai, one of the co-founders of Diigo, a web-based research and knowledge-sharing environment. You could say Diigo combines all the best features of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and social networking sites like Facebook, which we discussed in a previous post. But spend just fifteen minutes exploring the video tutorials, how-to guides and user-generated content over at the Diigo Help Center and you'll quickly realize that this is truly a unique and transformative tool. Diigo has the potential to change the ways in which we mentor all our students, but in particular, our graduate students and pre-service teachers, in a process that John Dewey calls 'productive inquiry', and what John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler describe as the key component to social learning: "In a traditional Cartesian educational system, students may spend years learning about a subject; only after amassing sufficient (explicit) knowledge are they expected to start acquiring the (tacit) knowledge or practice of how to be an active practitioner/professional in a field. But viewing learning as the process of joining a community of practice reverses this pattern and allows new students to engage in learning to be even as they are mastering the content of a field." If you're new to the concept of social bookmarking check out The Common Craft Show video in which they use del.icio.us as their example. Then watch the four minute overview of some of the basic functions of Diigo to see just how Diigo expands on the concept of social bookmarking. If you need any further convincing after listening to our conversation with Maggie, check out the following links and be sure to join our worldatways diigo group, where we can all share our annotated finds, ask questions and initiate discussions on topics of interest to you: Diigo: The End of Bookmarks? Three Uses of Diigo in the History and Language Arts Classroom 7 Reasons Diigo Tastes Better Than Delicious Maggie Tsai's list of examples of educational applications of Diigo In the course of our conversation with Maggie I discovered I was making use of just a small set of the many features in Diigo. We think Diigo is such a rich and innovative tool that we plan to devote several future blog posts to Diigo features that we think will really change the way we and our students can learn from and with each other in this globally interconnected world we live in. Do let us know which aspects of Diigo you'd like us to cover first and if you've used Diigo with your students and colleagues, we'd love to have you share your experiences here! Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast,,scholarship,,social,networks Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/16/diigo/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/fyToj3lTbnM/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/01/casta-ways-an-interview-with-bill-ferriter/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:22:20 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=395 When we posted our interview with Steve Muth a while back, we said we would do a follow up with Bill Ferriter, a teacher whose work really exemplifies the powerful educational possibilities of VoiceThread. This is indeed that interview, or rather collaborative dialog—the kind of conversation where, as Bill explains it, everyone involved works together [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=fyToj3lTbnM:lRHVwmAIENE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/fyToj3lTbnM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/01/casta-ways-an-interview-with-bill-ferriter/feed/ 1 51:30 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] When we posted our interview with Steve Muth a while back, we said we would do a follow up ... [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] When we posted our interview with Steve Muth a while back, we said we would do a follow up with Bill Ferriter, a teacher whose work really exemplifies the powerful educational possibilities of VoiceThread. This is indeed that interview, or rather collaborative dialogmdash;the kind of conversation where, as Bill explains it, everyone involved works together to come to some new understanding by engaging in respectful, challenging and productive discussions around a topic or idea. His approach constitutes a Socratic approach to learning that empowers students and prepares them for a future where collaborative problem-solving becomes the norm and where our students must be able to work together locally and virtually on issues that cross geographical and cultural boundaries. We have much to learn from our K-12 colleagues and while I do believe most of us would like to collaborate more closely with colleagues within, across and beyond our disciplinary boundaries, we have yet to discover how to connect in meaningful, effective and enduring ways. Over at his blog, Bill talks about "places of professional synergy where colleagues learn from each other and improve practice together" in reaction to Kevin's question about why he freely shares his work with everyone and how that is at odds with our current higher ed tenure system. Although I do agree that the tenure system, especially in the humanities, should value the collaborative, interdisciplinary work that we increasingly see in the profession, I am also convinced that we all need to do more to help our k-12 brethren break out of the isolated teaching silos I think still exist in the K-12 environment. Of course, all this is difficult to rectify, if, as a K-12 professional, you aren't given the time to engage in ongoing communities of practice and if, as a higher ed professional, your articulation efforts aren't rewarded in the all-important tenure, promotion and review process. So how can we effect lasting change? Do we need to? Want to? Can the kind of dialogic exchange Bill uses with his students be part of the answer? What are your thoughts? Please listen to this interview and let us know. Podcast Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/11/01/casta-ways-an-interview-with-bill-ferriter/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/ev50NF82u80/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-nina-garrett/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:21:02 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=343 In today&#8217;s episode Kevin and I had the honor of interviewing Nina Garrett, who recently retired from her position as the Director of the Center for Language Study at Yale University where she also served as Director of Language Study and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics. Nina has contributed significantly to the field of computer-assisted language [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=ev50NF82u80:tGnOBLUH5Hw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/ev50NF82u80" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-nina-garrett/feed/ 1 76:11 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In today's episode Kevin and I had the honor of interviewing Nina Garrett, who recently retired from her position ... [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In today's episode Kevin and I had the honor of interviewing Nina Garrett, who recently retired from her position as the Director of the Center for Language Study at Yale University where she also served as Director of Language Study and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics. Nina has contributed significantly to the field of computer-assisted language learning, guiding and informing the profession through her research and scholarly publications as well as through her leadership role in organizations such as the MLA, IALLT, CALICO, NASILP and LLT. Having been on the 'ground floor' so to speak, of the use of computer-assisted technologies in the service of language learning, Nina has a unique perspective on past and current trends and the kinds of research questions that remain unanswered. As we mention in our podcast, we view our interview with Nina as our 'cornerstone' podcast, one that anchors our explorations of these newer technologies and their impact on the teaching and learning of languages. Podcast Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/21/casta-ways-an-interview-with-nina-garrett/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/vMH_AOemx2Y/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/03/voicethread/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:47:16 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=146 In this episode we talk with Steve Muth, co-founder of VoiceThread, an online service that allows both instructors and students to upload just about any kind of file and have a discussion around it. Instructors, for example, could easily upload photographs or a PowerPoint presentation and have students comment on it orally or in writing. [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=vMH_AOemx2Y:LnjgaufVeiU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/vMH_AOemx2Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/03/voicethread/feed/ 2 68:04 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In this episode we talk with Steve Muth, co-founder of VoiceThread, an online service that allows both instructors and ... [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In this episode we talk with Steve Muth, co-founder of VoiceThread, an online service that allows both instructors and students to upload just about any kind of file and have a discussion around it. Instructors, for example, could easily upload photographs or a PowerPoint presentation and have students comment on it orally or in writing. VoiceThread is easy to use and can be a powerful tool in the classroom. You can listen to the podcast at the very bottom of this post. We've even included a Voicethread here to play around with while you listen to our conversation with Steve. During the interview, Steve compares VoiceThread to Twitter, SlideShare and even YouTube.nbsp;He also mentions the best practices ofnbsp; Bill Ferriter, a North Carolinia teacher who has created some excellent VoiceThread projects (Welcome to Our World, What Do You Value?) that seek to develop students' cross-cultural and higher order thinking skills.nbsp;We also interviewed Bill, so expect an episode soon in which we talk with him about how to use VoiceThread effectively in the classroom.nbsp; What do you think of VoiceThread? If you've used it to teach, how? *Update! VoiceThread now offers the ability to make text comments in Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese. Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com Podcast Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/10/03/voicethread/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~3/Fk5eLG381QI/ http://www.worldatways.com/2008/09/24/the-journey-begins/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:17:45 +0000 feedback@worldatways.com (Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey) http://www.worldatways.com/?p=171 In this introductory podcast, Barbara and Kevin discuss  this adventure upon which we are about to embark. cAsTaWays, the World A.T. Ways podcast, will bring together those making great educational tools with those creating best practices for them. In particular, we hope to make it easier for educators of languages, literatures and cultures to navigate [...]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?a=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/worldATwaysCast?i=Fk5eLG381QI:azt1Ry305hE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/worldATwaysCast/~4/Fk5eLG381QI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.worldatways.com/2008/09/24/the-journey-begins/feed/ 0 21:52 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In this introductory podcast, Barbara and Kevin discussnbsp; this adventure upon which we are about to embark. cAsTaWays, the ... [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="sponsors this blog"][/caption] In this introductory podcast, Barbara and Kevin discussnbsp; this adventure upon which we are about to embark. cAsTaWays, the World A.T. Ways podcast, will bring together those making great educational tools with those creating best practices for them. In particular, we hope to make it easier for educators of languages, literatures and cultures to navigate the ocean of web-based tools. Here we go. The journey begins. Photo credit: White Pass and Yukon Locomotive 73 by Tony Hisgett Music for our podcasts is courtesy of George Wood and is called Travelogue. You can find more of George Wood's music at podsafeaudio.com About Kevin Gaugler and Barbara Lindsey no No http://www.worldatways.com/2008/09/24/the-journey-begins/ Kevin Gaugler and Barbara LindseynonadultEpisodic adventures across the globe in education, languages, culture and the new web