By Andrew Walton, University of Texas at San Antonio In today’s world, educational practices look vastly different than they did years ago due to the exponential growth of technology. This rapid increase has made educational content more easily accessible and
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In this video, Dr. Jeffrey Samuels interviews Catherine Ousselin, who specializes in teaching languages with technology. They discuss her origins as a geeky teacher, her website, the World Language Laboratory, her professional experience, and her advice for others about getting
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By Jonathan Risner, Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington For some six years, I have regularly taught a 300-level film analysis course in Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington. I structure the course in a way that the first half of the
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By Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University Language teachers use video conferencing tools such as Zoom and Teams for many purposes, including teaching, meetings, professional development, and socializing. At times, it is more convenient to use a gesture to communicate, rather
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By Robert Remmerswaal, Sojo University, Japan Introduction With TeacherTools.Digital you can quickly make robust learning activities for your students to practice and improve their language skills in English, French, German, and Spanish. Other languages may work with only limited functionality
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By Kevin Anzzolin, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout For most if not all educators in the United States, spring semester 2020 can be largely defined by a single but weighty word: “pivot.” By mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced us
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By Svitlana Malykhina and Nadiya Prokopyeva, Boston University Introduction BU Russian Poetry is a comprehensive multimedia Open Educational Resource (OER) where students read poetry and experiment in a laboratory for new forms of analysis while developing their
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By Jody Converse, ASL Educator at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota About SignAll Lab SignAll Lab is an interactive workstation for learning and practicing American Sign Language (ASL). It supplements our classes, giving students countless hours of independent study
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By Erin Frazier, Euan Bonner, Ryan Lege, Kanda University of International Studies Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous and intertwined with everyday life, especially with the proliferation of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google
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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction With the abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, hyperdocs such as Google Docs have garnered a lot of attention due to their ubiquity, ease of
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By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to become published
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By José Vergara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College Introduction When my students and I first began studying Chernobyl in late January, we had little idea that the entire globe would soon be swept up by a similar “invisible
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