For the past year as I have endeavored to learn Turkish, I have been building a learning network. I followed the informal education practices of high school students I have studied. Like them I explored the Internet, less efficiently at first not really sure what search terms would yield what I really wanted.. actually, not [...]
The Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing sponsored the Digital Media in a Social World February 20, 2009. I had agreed to participate in a faculty panel on using technology in the classroom. However, just days before the conference, D’Arcy Oaks and I learned that we were the only ones who were actually planning to [...]
I have been trying to teach myself Turkish through online tutorials. Recently, I found an interesting language learning site that i really like http://www.livemocha.com/. The site sets up an infrastructure for building digitally-mediated communities of practice. They have courses in many languages (unfortunately not Turkish). The lessons are “graded” by humans rather than a computer [...]