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By Silvia Giorgini-Althoen, Wayne State University Various telecollaboration initiatives have blossomed in recent years, but the pandemic intensified the need to find learning tools to face new challenges and to maintain higher standards of interaction in our language classes. During
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Presenter: Sarab Al Ani, Yale University In this webinar, attendees learn about “escape the room” games – they go through a brief introduction to the history of the game, its types, goals, and benefits for language learning. The last part
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By Haruka Sasai and Xiao Sun, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Introduction On Saturday, October 23, 2021, the annual conference of The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation
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By Molly Godwin-Jones, Dianna Murphy, and Karen Evans-Romaine Introduction The widespread shift to remote instruction and adoption of video conferencing tools such as Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in new opportunities for educators at various institutions to collaborate
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By Kaitlyn Teske, PhD, San Diego Padres Education in Baseball I have considered several new job titles during the pandemic: How To Download Zoom Coordinator, Instructor of It’s the Same Link Every Day, Guys, and Director of Unmute Yourself have been
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By Sherry A. Maggin & Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, The United States Military Academy Introduction Book Creator is an online platform for the creation of digital books. Instructors and students alike can read, create, and publish using a wide variety of
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By María I. Ortiz, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash College Introduction: Spanish Club Pre- and During COVID-19 As a language educator, have you ever heard this: “I want to learn a language, and I want to speak
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By Joseph Fees, Delaware State University Loom is a browser-based program to create sharable screencast videos for classes or training. Users can access the website directly or add a Loom extension to Chrome. The website allows users to record a
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By Richard Medina, Center for Language & Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa About AMPLIFY Amplify is a web application that collects and distributes information about professional learning events specifically from language centers, departments, or other organizational units that provide
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By Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor of Spanish, Daemen College, Amherst, NY Introduction Music moves us all and is especially motivational in language learning. With the intersection of music and language, the web platform Lyricstraining makes acquiring a language even more
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In this interview, Jeff Samuels talks to Mari Ocando Finol (Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College), Trent Hoy (Learning Experience Designer at Berlitz Corporation), and Carly Born (Academic Technologist at Carleton College) about how their careers in language learning
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University While working on my PhD in Russian literature, my career took a turn toward instructional technology and curriculum development. After finishing graduate school I wanted a way to continue learning more in the
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By Frederick Poole, Michigan State University In the last five years, Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiatives have been spreading through K-12 institutions in the United States. Many of these initiatives are the result of substantial government funding that aims
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By Stacy Nyikos, PhD, and Evan Rubin SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center The Foreign Language Film Night (FFuN) series at San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU-LARC) began as an in-person movie night in Fall 2019 to
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