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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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How To Add 3 D To Language Classes
Virtual worlds such as Second Life can be easily added to classroom-based or online language lessons. Virtual worlds offer a 3D immersive experience to be included as an optional extra. This allows for...
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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 – virtual worlds meet m-learning
Talking with Graham Stanley last month and seeing Pierre Moussy’s G2 Android smartphone in action got me thinking more seriously about mobile learning for languages. Some of the G2 phone’s features...
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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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Second Life as a Social Learning Environment (Presentation at SLanguages 2009)
One of our students, Pierre Moussy, has been using the 3d virtual world, Second Life, to gain conversation practice. His presentation below was given at the SLanguages conference (for language...
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Dogme for Virtual World Language Learning (Presentation at SLanguages 2009)
At SLanguages 2009 I gave a presentation on Dogme language teaching and its relevance to virtual world language education. Here is the presentation as text… I have been using virtual worlds such as...
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Dogme 2.0: Some Thoughts on Guidelines or “Vows”
Several people in the Dogme Yahoo discussion forum have attempted to give greater shape to the idea of Dogme teaching using web 2.0 technologies (“Dogme 2.0”). Graham Stanley has suggested formulating...
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Emergent Syllabus – a syllabus for dialogic language learning
The challenge A student recently expressed that he wanted greater structure for his Spanish lessons and also wanted to have a clearer sense of what he would be learning when. He said that he wanted a...
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