As I had never heard of Mobile Assisted Language Learning prior to taking this class, I am very interested in exploring it. If readers are interested in a good overview of this topic, Stockwell’s (2012) article is a good starting point (full source at end of blog post). I think that like any other technology, MALL…
Camtasia vs. iMovie
Recently I completed a multimodal tutorial assignment. The project required the use of Camtasia. Though my partner and I had some technical issues at first, we made the tutorial and were pleased with it. (Here’s a link to view the tutorial.) Shortly after we submitted, I had to make a tutorial for the Online Learning…
Technophobes vs. Technophiles
Today’s class discussion about affordances got me thinking about what it means to be a phile vs. a phobe … but I think the best way to think about that is in more of a dynamic way (like a continuum) rather than in oppositional terms. In terms of language teaching, I have experienced colleagues on…
Google Docs & Writing PROCESS Instruction
The discussion of Google Docs has been really interesting to me because I spent almost all of my first year at ISU teaching ISUComm foundation courses, in which I used Google Docs almost exclusively for both in and out of class activities. During that time, it never occurred to me to consult the literature on…