Did you read this yesterday in The Observer? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2113739,00.html Interesting, in light of the recent thread here,...
Egoistically, I'm intrigued why I came to Fiona's mind when she read the article about Wikipedia. As far as I could see, though, the issue of inaccuracy was...
Ah, but I would say that the inaccuracy issue is addressed on two levels. One, by saying that errors or inappropriate stuff such as narcissism and vandalism...
Fiona, here's what reminded you of Dennis, and others, on this list: The ideal Wikipedian in my mind is someone who is really smart and really kind,' Wales...
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses recent trends in language pedagogy that emphasize movement from a psycholinguistic to a more sociocultural view of language...
Rob, Thanks for that. The abstract says: "Nourished primarily by sociocultural theory and Hinton's (2002, 2003) efforts to promote the stabilization of...
Rob, Just a tip. if you put the "<" sign at the beginning and ">" at the end of links, they will not break. Celso ... From: "Robert Haines" <haines@...>...
Dennis writes: "Isn't this claim, though, a good example of academic, theoretical appropriation?" In fact, I do think so. A very good example, indeed. "Is...
Thanks for the tip, Celso. I'd like to get such tips regularly --- all this software (and hardware) at my disposal and so little knowledge of how to exploit it...
Rob and list, As we've agreed before, here and elsewhere, it should ideally be a question of research and practice and not. research versus practice. And the...
I'm just finishing looking through the Ph.D. thesis of the son of friends of ours on Ghanaian music in Ghana and Germany - he's an ethnomusicologist. I was...
Dear Dennis, A verrrrry interesting passage indeed. Potentially quite a useful idea ! Grammar not as a noun, but a verb. Language as a verb. Languaging as a ...
Amol, Good to hear from you as always. Without probably ever having heard of Florian and his ethonomusicology, Scott Thornbury in his "Uncovering Grammar" (...
Dennis - did you (or did someone else) recently quote some research that's been done (or is being done) on the tendency for teacher-fronting in classes with...
Scott, II vaguely remember such an article, but must check, and will do. In the meantime, did I send to dogme a copy of my posting of a BBC article: "Too much...
Scott, Here's a very recent post from Alan Pulverness the last time this got discussed. Might be interesting to get hold of the research mentioned. Nick 'It...
Nick, Scott - The teacher whose research I referred to was working for the BC in Bangkok. I don't remember his name, I'm afraid, but if you wanted to pursue...
Scott, About the IWBs, I was at the same conference, and I actually heard you say that IWBs can be 'interactive white elephants'. I am sure you noticed the...
In a post to this list I once mentioned my impressions of IWBs and their effects on the classroom atmosphere. I was walking past a large room filled tables and...
I suspect, Rob, that the teacher you observed was using his IWB ( note that I ) in the most dreary and limited fashion available. At the same time, IWBs are so...
Hi Scott, I recently wrote a report for one of the publishers where the conclusions were that a) they encouraged teacher fronted classes b) much of what is...
Hi all It's interesting how the common view of IWBs is that they create teacher fronted teachers. In my view teacher fronted teachers are teacher fronted...
Off-list, I've heard from a friend who also believes it's not the technology per se but how it's used that's important. Teachers should be trained how to...
Could also be naive to compare an interactive whiteboard with a mobile, email, or 'leaf blower'. A leaf blower? both the mobile and the email are artificial...
I'd really like to see someone teaching with an interactive whiteboard - or at least a good video demonstration. Dennis APOLOGIES. UNABLE TO DELETE TAIL. ... ...
My intent was not to claim that IWB = leaf blower (or whatever you want to call those contraptions). Nor did I mean to say that IWB use means yacking on cell...
Rob sez: > My intent was not to claim that IWB = leaf blower (or whatever you ... Fiona sez: I know. But I don't know what a 'leaf blower' is. I don't think we...
Robert says "Did you receive any training on how to use them in a learner-centered way?" Suspect that never occurred to most trainers... But what an...
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