September 2011
12 posts
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"Professors use Twitter in Foreign Language... →
Thanks to @sylviaduckworth for sharing this on Twitter!
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"Ebook: ¿Qué le dirías?: 15 actividades para... →
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"Sport and Language Learning" by Don Doehla (EFL... →
This article describes the use of athletic training as a metaphor for the language acquisition process.
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Aula de "El Mundo" →
This site offers an impressively long list of free, authentic articles (spanning from 1999 to 2007) in PDF format about a variety of topics in Spanish for use in the classroom.
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"Want to become a better teacher? Shift your focus... →
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"Lady Gaga vs. Salvador Dalí (Comparaciones)" by... →
A fun cultural comparison activity using Venn diagrams.
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"Project-Based Learning and Culture" by Don Doehla... →
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"Foreign Language Academies of Glendale: A Dual... →
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"A Case for Free-Topic Blogging [in the Language... →
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"Memorizing Vocabulary" by Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell... →
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"My One Great Lesson This Year" by Deven Black... →
August 2011
19 posts
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My Free Web App Line-up for the Foreign Language...
Now that most of you have settled into your classrooms and gotten to know your students, I would like to offer up Part 2 of my series describing the free web apps I hope to use this year in my classroom. (That is to say, claiming that I intentionally waited over two weeks to accomodate the beginning of school makes me feel less guilty about neglecting my blog!)
If you missed my post about the...
"The Best Apps for Foreign Language Education"... →
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"High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom" by... →
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"3 Tips for Teachers Using Social Media in the... →
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"Why Children of Immigrants Need to Learn Heritage... →
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"More Students Learning Spanish at Younger Age" by... →
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"How Long Does It Take to Learn a New Language?"... →
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"Emotions in More Than One Language" by Dr.... →
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"Bilingualism Does NOT Increase Risk for Language... →
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"They Can't Speak and It's Our Fault: Dismantling... →
A reminder of the pitfalls and “easy ways out” one must avoid in teaching a foreign language to help students actually learn the language.
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"Surviving a Last-Minute Substitution Class" by... →
A quick read and an excellent go-to reference for the panic-stricken green teacher called in unexpectedly to substitute.
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My Free Web App Line-up for the Foreign Language...
After my post about my aspirations for using Twitter in the classroom this year, I was asked about other free software I would recommend for the foreign language classroom. And so, to respond I would like to list and describe all of the free web apps I would like to integrate into my own Spanish classes this term. I don’t want to overwhelm my students with technology, so I may not end up using...
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““In the new world of accountability, students’ acquisition of the...”
– — Diane Ravitch, pp. 159-165 of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010)
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"Twitter's Secret Handshake" by Ashley Parker (New... →
A clever cultural studies/linguistic take on the Twitter #hashtag.
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12 Ways I Hope to Use Twitter in My Spanish...
After re-posting the UT Dallas “back channel” video earlier today, I started to think about other ways I might want to use Twitter in my Spanish courses this quarter. A more comprehensive list than in the previous post is given below. I will probably add more ideas as they occur to me or as I find them online.
I hope this list is useful for other foreign language teachers looking to...
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“…[S]chool reform without public oversight or review is contrary to basic...”
– Diane Ravitch, page 77 of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010)
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Welcome to Linguedutech™
Hello, and welcome to Linguedutech (hereafter “LET”—much easier to write)! My name is Caleb Bloodworth, and I hope to use this tumblr space to engage with some of my interests like language learning (namely Spanish/English), education policy, and technology in the classroom, as well as expand my personal learning network (PLN) as I begin my work in the education field.
I am, however,...
