Author Archives: Todd Bryant
Google Books Adds Ancient Greek and Latin Texts |
This is another example of how Google Books can dramatically impact traditional education. The effect of digitized texts goes far beyond access. By converting the text to a digital format, it opens up new possibilities for textual search and analysis. … Continue reading
Blog Moving
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This blog will be moving next week to http://blogs.dickinson.edu/edtech. Hopefully with a broader topic, I’ll write more.
Finding and Organizing Authentic Content for Students
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One of the great early benefits for language learning was the availability of authentic content. At first students could find newspapers from abroad, then radio, then other kinds of multimedia, and finally even connect and interact with people via blogs, … Continue reading
Social Networks and Language Learning
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Akiko Meguro combined the social networking site Mixi (http://mixi.jp) and the Mixxer (http://www.language-exchanges.org) to make communication with native speakers an integral part of her course. She uses the Mixxer to organize bi-weekly language exchanges via Skype for her students, then … Continue reading
UCLA’s Language Material’s Project |
UCLA announced the publishing of the “Language Material’s Project”. It’s a very well organized database of resources for language teachers of less commonly taught languages. http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Lessons.aspx?menu=003 These searchable repositories aren’t as necessary as they once were with the rise of … Continue reading
Univision comes to YouTube |
YouTube is looking to compete with other rising sites such as Hulu for the internet TV market. They took a big step today by signing a deal with Univision. Wired on Univision and YouTube There’s certainly no shortage of video … Continue reading
Twinity, 3D Berlin |
Twinity is pushing their 3D version of Berlin, and they’re taking advantage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. They’re holding lectures, classes, and have recreated the wall in it’s original location. It is interesting to … Continue reading
Kindle Goes International |
The Kindle is now being sold in other countries. Unfortunately, only English books are available. Too bad, once books are available in other languages along with the corresponding built-in dictionary, it could be a real aid to the students in … Continue reading
Twitter Trends in other Languages |
This is fun and found via Mundaysa’s Twitter account. For those not familiar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging service. Still doesn’t make the sense? Imagine text chatting the world. As it’s gained in popularity, it’s appeared in the regular news … Continue reading
New Study Abroad Bloggers
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So far we have Sarah in China and Matthew in Spain. Looking forward to some post from Germany soon and hope to find some students in France and Japan!