by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University Virtual and augmented reality facilities are becoming a reality in many universities across the country. At Michigan State University, the library recently installed a digital scholarship lab that includes a 360
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Seth Killian, Founder of Lingco Labs By Shannon Spasova, University of Michigan Shannon Spasova: Hi, can you tell us a little about yourself? Seth Killian: I’m Seth, the founder of Lingco Language Labs. I’m an undergraduate student at Michigan
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by Carlos Torres, Spanish teacher and department Head in Birmingham, MI. I am fortunate to work in a school district where the use of social media for instructional and extracurricular purposes is relatively commonplace. Teachers, sponsors, and
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Marlene Johnshoy (University of Minnesota) Jonathan Perkins (University of Kansas) Dan Soneson (University of Minnesota) Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) With shrinking travel budgets and difficulties taking extended time away from work, many language faculty and
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by Megan MacNicol, Spanish teacher in Hershey, PA Formative, which is also known as GoFormative, is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic device:laptop,
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by Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Associate Professor of Spanish, Elmhurst College Edpuzzle is a web-based interactive video tool that allows teachers to customize existing online videos in ways that encourage active learning. The basic version is free for
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Anita Young, Virtual Learning Specialist. Edwige: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, what you teach, where and how long you’ve been teaching? Anita: My name is Anita Young and I am a Virtual Learning Specialist
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) In previous articles, I introduced you to H5P’s Interactive Video and Audio Recorder activity types. In this article, I would like to introduce you to the H5P Course Presentation activity type. It is
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Jeff Magoto is the language center director at the University of Oregon where the next IALLT conference will be hosted on June 19-22, 2019. Here a link to the Call for Proposal. The deadline is December 6, 2018. The International Association
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Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni, Washington State University, Pullman Joy Egbert, Washington State University, Pullman The process, content, and outcomes of teacher education in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) continue to be discussed in the field, with teacher educators employing various approaches (e.g.,
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Nathalie Ettzevoglou, French Teacher at Alpharetta High School, Georgia. Quizalize is a web-based tool that allows teachers to collect and track student-specific data generated automatically by the zzish platform in order to personalize instruction. The company’s platform zzish was
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. Since more and more language courses are becoming technology-enhanced, hybrid, or online, language teachers are now often tasked with creating this curriculum. Faculty authorship is a very positive thing; after all,
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. For quite some time, clickers (or student response systems) have been popular tools in large lecture courses to elicit student participation. Kahoot, a game-based quiz platform has also become commonly used
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