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…
Textbooks & Online Supplements
If you’ve recently taught an ESL course with a newish textbook, you are probably aware that most textbooks now come with the supplemental online resources. These resources are accessed via a code which is often printed in the jacket of the textbook. Sometimes these codes are automatically calculated in to the price of the textbook,…
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…