Entries from November 2006

November 29, 2006

O Pioneers, ye ESL Instructors

Scaffolding, Context, and Technology: O Pioneers!
 

Part 1: The Wild Land (click me to read an excerpt from Willa Cather’s novel)

“The Internet is not so much a tool as a new social space that restructures social relations.” – Warschauer (paraphrasing Poster, 1997)

Mark Warschauer, a writer whom I’ve been following for the past few years and [...]

November 29, 2006

ESL and Digital Classrooms

How might you use a computer in your classroom?

Wow, this is a difficult one to answer because I’ve been using computer technology in my classrooms throughout my teaching career. My students and I have explored everything from on-line questionnaires, email exchange projects, and CALL drills, to use of computer-mediated video editing, in-class computer-facilitated synchronous [...]