Comments on: CIL Reflections http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/ A librarian, writer and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ranger http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-173682 ranger Wed, 02 May 2007 18:35:15 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-173682 Meredith, now I am picturing you and Michelle running an ice cream shop for dogs. Big, drooly dogs! Meredith, now I am picturing you and Michelle running an ice cream shop for dogs. Big, drooly dogs!

]]> By: Barbara http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172752 Barbara Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:55:52 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172752 BG's site is indeed an inspiration for anyone who is wrestling with the idea of using these tools for teaching. Since my class is billed as a conversation class, and also since there is now a proven a co-relation between Computer Mediated Conversations and informal spoken conversation patterns in a second language, using blogs in my class was a natural and easy choice. Not to mention the portfolio aspect of the tool (this is what I could do in February...this is what I am doing now in May) Plus, native speakers have "found" us and comment frequently, which is an extraordinary experience in and of itself. I love your blog, by the way and am so happy to have stumbled upon it. let's keep in touch...it sounds like we have similar passions and interests! i will add you to the LLU blogroll! Stay in touch! Barbara BG’s site is indeed an inspiration for anyone who is wrestling with the idea of using these tools for teaching.

Since my class is billed as a conversation class, and also since there is now a proven a co-relation between Computer Mediated Conversations and informal spoken conversation patterns in a second language, using blogs in my class was a natural and easy choice. Not to mention the portfolio aspect of the tool (this is what I could do in February…this is what I am doing now in May) Plus, native speakers have “found” us and comment frequently, which is an extraordinary experience in and of itself.

I love your blog, by the way and am so happy to have stumbled upon it. let’s keep in touch…it sounds like we have similar passions and interests! i will add you to the LLU blogroll!

Stay in touch!

Barbara

]]> By: Meredith Farkas http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172743 Meredith Farkas Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:23:38 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172743 Hi Barbara! I did link to one of Barbara Ganley's English classes, but not to her personal blog. I mentiond her actually in two of the four talks I gave last week. She's certainly the mother of educational blogging, so I definitely was going to tell people about her. Her ideas about blogging in the classroom have definitely been an inspiration to me. I love the way you are using blogging in a language class! So great for improving more casual writing and conversation in Spanish (as opposed to the formal writing you'd see in a paper)! Terrific! Hi Barbara! I did link to one of Barbara Ganley’s English classes, but not to her personal blog. I mentiond her actually in two of the four talks I gave last week. She’s certainly the mother of educational blogging, so I definitely was going to tell people about her. Her ideas about blogging in the classroom have definitely been an inspiration to me.

I love the way you are using blogging in a language class! So great for improving more casual writing and conversation in Spanish (as opposed to the formal writing you’d see in a paper)! Terrific!

]]> By: Barbara http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172687 Barbara Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:32:38 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172687 Thank you, from my students, for mentioning my HISP 305 class's blogging in your presentation... it has been an extraordinary experience watching my students grow and exceed their own expectations in the Spanish language through the use of these tools. (As I sit here in the computer lab one of my students is using Skype to speak with a native speaker in Mexico while metablogging the experience...and we don't have class until tomorrow...) I notice you showed some of Barbara Ganley's classes' work but did not mention them in your round up of sites.. please be sure to mention her... she is truly an extraordinary teacher and blogger. Again...thanks for the mention! Barbara Language Lab Unleashed http://www.languagelabunleashed.com HISP 305: Spanish for Advanced Communication http://languages.oberlin.edu/hisp305 Thank you, from my students, for mentioning my HISP 305 class’s blogging in your presentation… it has been an extraordinary experience watching my students grow and exceed their own expectations in the Spanish language through the use of these tools. (As I sit here in the computer lab one of my students is using Skype to speak with a native speaker in Mexico while metablogging the experience…and we don’t have class until tomorrow…)

I notice you showed some of Barbara Ganley’s classes’ work but did not mention them in your round up of sites.. please be sure to mention her… she is truly an extraordinary teacher and blogger.

Again…thanks for the mention!

Barbara

Language Lab Unleashed
http://www.languagelabunleashed.com

HISP 305: Spanish for Advanced Communication
http://languages.oberlin.edu/hisp305

]]> By: Ellen Druda http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172390 Ellen Druda Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:14:15 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172390 Thank you for your impressions! I left the conference inspired and depressed for the very reasons you describe. It's good to know I wasn't alone. Thank you for your impressions! I left the conference inspired and depressed for the very reasons you describe. It’s good to know I wasn’t alone.

]]> By: Ryan http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172351 Ryan Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:46:26 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172351 Yeah, and I didn't find you to get my book signed! Waaaaaah! Oh well, it was great to meet you and all the others out there (too many to mention, but I'll blog it eventually). Yeah, and I didn’t find you to get my book signed! Waaaaaah!

Oh well, it was great to meet you and all the others out there (too many to mention, but I’ll blog it eventually).

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-172349 Dorothea Salo Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:50:40 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/04/20/cil-reflections/#comment-172349 Please let me recommend <a href="http://kathryndeiss.pbwiki.com/" rel="nofollow">Kathryn Deiss</a>'s PBWiki page, and the presentations thereon (including her TXLA one, which I attended). She is remarkably smart about this stuff. A quote in her TXLA presentation that's stuck with me: "Different is not always better -- but better is always different." Please let me recommend Kathryn Deiss’s PBWiki page, and the presentations thereon (including her TXLA one, which I attended). She is remarkably smart about this stuff.

A quote in her TXLA presentation that’s stuck with me: “Different is not always better — but better is always different.”

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