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October 13, 2015
Here begins a flurry of posts related to my presentations and workshops at the Texas Foreign Language Association’s conference this weekend. First, our workshop (by our I mean I’m doing this with Amy Lenord, John Cadena, Melissa Vargas) on Thursday night is called Twitter 101 and is about how and why to get involved with a professional […]
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April 11, 2014
See you at ACTFL ’14
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I’m pleased to announce that I’m participating in three sessions you’ll see at the annual conference by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Kick the Vocab Quiz This session will offer reasons and strategies for eliminating vocabulary quizzes from your classroom, in the interest of fostering real long-term memory and deep vocabulary […]
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April 4, 2014
If you’re interested in the kind of professional development where: you suggest the topics you vote on the topics it’s no big deal if you don’t show up it can be life-changing when you do show up it grows your personal learning network by leaps and bounds every time if you don’t like the topic […]
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March 8, 2013
This is the third set of tips to avoid burning out in communicative teaching. Check out “Burning out or burning bright?” and “More tips on avoiding burnout” for more help on how to stay sane and effective at the same time. Develop a strong personal learning community. I can’t handle too much social networking. I’ve […]
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January 6, 2012
Free Ebook for WL educators
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Our generous friends over at Calico Spanish have put together a free resource for you! Sign up today to receive Web Tools for 21st Century World Language Classrooms. This free e-book is an organized, user-friendly collaboration based on past Twitter #Langchats related to using web tools to enhance and develop all sorts of language acquisition […]
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November 17, 2011
Twice for #langchat we’ve polled the following question: What activities prepare students for AP from the very beginning? I confess, I probably wrote this question, maybe with some help from something similar being suggested as a topic. Certainly I’ve voted for it twice. But for whatever reason–perhaps teachers of lower levels don’t think much about […]
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October 26, 2011
Learning from #langchat
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If there’s one big principle I’ve learned over the past 10 years, 8 teaching and 2 in grad school, it’s that good teaching isn’t magic. Sometimes it looks like magic, but it’s not. Sure, some people just don’t have the personality or gift of explanation to be a teacher. But some very gifted people have […]
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February 14, 2011
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February 10, 2011
Tonight’s #Langchat topic is using games to support instruction. I have no idea how to describe a game in 140 characters so I thought I’d post it here. This is a game good for low levels. It works great to reinforce describing people. It’s useful for students to have the verbs ‘have’ ‘wear’ and ‘is.’ […]
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January 21, 2011
Topic for #LangChat 1/27
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You can vote here for the topic for this week’s #LangChat on Twitter, Thursday 1/27 at 8 pm EST. Also, feel free to suggest topics through this suggestion form.
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January 20, 2011
The topic is chosen and we’re on tonight on Twitter at 8pm EST/7CST! What are the differences between communicative competence and accuracy, and what weight or importance do each of these carry in the world language classroom? Choose your medium (Twitter.com, Twitterfall, Tweetdeck-my favorite) and we’ll “see” you there!
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January 13, 2011
A group of language teachers on Twitter has gotten together to start a weekly chat on issues related to world language teaching. We’re going to do this on Thursday evenings at 8 Eastern/7 Central (NOTE: this is a correction from the earlier posted incorrect time). The hashtag is #langchat. So add a #langchat column to […]
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