Monday, March 23, 2009

After being presented with all of these tools, I know in the near future I'm going to be thinking: I wish I knew how to use that tool I learned about in class. Is there an emergency hotline I can call for getting help using animoto or voicethread? That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the class, even though I wish we had had more time to master skills. I think voicethread could be a really good tool to use in foreign language classes. It seems that our language lab, which only consists of a bunch of computers, has regressed from the time when I was in high school, when we had booths with headphones and cassette tapes (but no computers). Maybe there could be a workshop specifically targeted at foreign language teachers, so their students could improve their speaking and listening skills using new technologies.

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  1. Hi Eric
    Oh your comment about the "help line" is cool. Well, yes sort of. All these new online companies have online support services. They have to be prompt because if they are not, their business never returns.
    Good luck. It would be great for foreign language teachers to get together and learn the new tools together.
    ~Kathleen

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