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,...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 2, 2007 8:27 pm
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...
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Fiona
fiotf
Jul 2, 2007 9:17 pm
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...
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Rosemary Schmid
rosemaryschmid
Jul 3, 2007 9:38 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 4, 2007 1:18 am
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses recent trends in language pedagogy that emphasize movement from a psycholinguistic to a more sociocultural view of language...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 4, 2007 7:53 am
Rob, Thanks for that. The abstract says: "Nourished primarily by sociocultural theory and Hinton's (2002, 2003) efforts to promote the stabilization of...
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Celso
celsocamargors
Jul 4, 2007 5:43 pm
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@...>...
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Celso
celsocamargors
Jul 4, 2007 5:53 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 4, 2007 10:52 pm
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...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 5, 2007 7:41 am
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...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 14, 2007 6:46 am
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...
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amol padwad
apadwad
Jul 16, 2007 9:37 am
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 ...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 16, 2007 1:06 pm
Amol, Good to hear from you as always. Without probably ever having heard of Florian and his ethonomusicology, Scott Thornbury in his "Uncovering Grammar" (...
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Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
Jul 17, 2007 9:48 am
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...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 17, 2007 10:24 am
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...
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nickbilbrough
Jul 17, 2007 10:42 am
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...
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Alan Pulverness
alanpulverness
Jul 17, 2007 2:03 pm
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...
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ianmartinnewby
Jul 17, 2007 4:35 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 17, 2007 5:25 pm
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...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 17, 2007 6:40 pm
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...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Jul 18, 2007 5:22 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 18, 2007 5:49 pm
Adrian, can you post that report to the files section? Rob ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Roger Hunt
roger54111
Jul 19, 2007 3:21 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 19, 2007 5:48 pm
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...
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Fiona
fiotf
Jul 20, 2007 3:45 pm
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...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 20, 2007 5:23 pm
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. ... ...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 20, 2007 6:07 pm
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...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Jul 20, 2007 6:12 pm
Dennis, ye asked and now ye shall receive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjdNPMZJbLs&mode=related&search= Rob...
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Fiona
fiotf
Jul 20, 2007 6:28 pm
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...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Jul 20, 2007 8:13 pm
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...
