Jan

16

Want to join an online community specifically for world language educators? Meet our ning, MIWLA Connect

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Professional Learning Communities for world language teachers can play a major role in supporting the teacher in the classroom. Unlike the math, science, social studies or language arts teachers, many world language teachers are the only teacher of their content area in the building. Of course, in larger schools this is not the [...]

Nov

22

80+ Participants in Integrating Tech Workshop

November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Wow! Over 80 people chose to attend the Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice workshop. Thank goodness I had assistance from my University of Michigan Computer Science Engineering Freshmen son Bryan – he was invaluable providing help connecting to our secure network and just-in-time support. It was an exciting, fast-paced workshop exploring multiple authoring environments [...]

Nov

18

ACTFL 2009: Off to the house of the mouse

November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages national conference is at the Swan and Dolphin in Orlando. The program looks interesting and it is always invigorating to meet with fellow educators for discussion and networking.  I’ll be presenting two hands-on technology-focused workshops: Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice (6 hours) and Enter the Conversation: [...]

Oct

22

Michigan World Language Association Conference

October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Michigan World Language Association conference is starting tomorrow. The Holiday Inn South in Lansing is the location – it is centrally located, free parking, and easy to reach for many educators from the east and west sides of the state. Hope to see you there!

Aug

24

Starting the new school year with web2.0 in New Jersey

August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I just returned from New Jersey where I worked with 36 world language teachers for 4 days. We focused on enhancing world language teaching and learning with web-based technologies. We had a wiki that served as our starting point (see the Explore page), and then each participant had a workspace (see Participants page), and many [...]