I uploaded something on the order of 75 snaps to Flickr today, account lazlokovax, also tagged with iallt09, inter alia.

[My laptop was acting up at the beginning of the presentation, so this is the trailing 35 minutes]

Started with 50 coding areas in first year (2004) and needed to narrow. Looked at CALL articles that looked interesting, analyzing according to what were the journal articles' research method, duration of research gathering, language topics, gender, theory, and CALL type.

Examination of language topics meant looking at whether the art… Continue

[The following are my notes, taken during the session, with very little post session review or editing. My apologies to the presenters for mistakes. Comments and corrections are welcomed. --AMH]

Barbara Sawhill, Oberlin College, is presenting using VuVox http://www.vuvox.com

Are we too beholden to the syllabus and to term length? We still have problems letting go of the teacher guide role. We need to "unlearn" our traditional teaching roles.

Oberlin has Word… Continue

[The following are my notes, taken during the session, with very little post session review or editing. My apologies to the presenters for mistakes. Comments and corrections are welcomed. --AMH]

Sharon Scinicariello, University of Richmond
Enza Antenos-Conforti, Montclair State University

http://teacher.pageflakes.com
http://slideshare.net/sharongs

Students are working in Diigo and Pageflakes'

Pageflakes… Continue

This is Marlene Johnshoy and it's an interactive session. We were asked to get together in small groups and think about typical professional development experiences. Who decides the topic? Who teaches it? Where does it take place? Who is there? How does the learning happen? How long does it take? How do you know that you have learned it? When--how long--until you are able to apply it in the classroom?

For K-12, it's often/usually the principal and the topic is trendy. Outside 'experts' are more… Continue