Author Archives: Allison L. Weiss
LRC Tutor Training with Moodle
I’ve recently completed the first version of a Moodle course designed to help student tutors in the Language Resource Center to improve their tutoring skills. Anyone on campus who would like to see how I set up the course is … Continue reading
All-Digital Syllabi
This semester, we determined to provide SPAN102 and SPAN201 syllabi to our students via digital means. I asked all of my adjuncts to send out an email explaining to the students where they could find the syllabi posted 24/7. You … Continue reading
IPA symbols for music & language
Since we have such great music and language departments, I wanted to let people know about a great tool for inputing IPA symbols. The IPA palette is easy to install on your mac and opens up whenever you click on … Continue reading
Looking for videos on the topic of creativity
This is just a shout out to anybody on campus or off that can think of good video clips that address the topic of creativity. I am looking for quotes or filmed snippets of artists discussing how they work with … Continue reading
Filming restaurant excursions with Flip cameras
In lieu of group presentations, I asked the four groups in my Spanish 201 class to visit local Mexican restaurants, show us around, and share with us examples of phrases we might use in a restaurant. The entire class collaborated … Continue reading
Using Google forms to solicit feedback from students
At the end of last semester I created a google form for getting feedback from my students. My hope is to learn something from each semester’s choices as well as start an informal longitudinal study. I try to learn which … Continue reading
Apple Tablet [will be] revealed tomorrow
The world is 99% sure that Apple will reveal a new device tomorrow at a special event in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena center intended to eventually redefine the publishing industry, the same way the iPod and iTunes redefined the music … Continue reading
One way to use Ning
Yesterday, I posted my first assignment on my Ning site. It looks like this (translated into English): Hello class! As you probably noticed in your syllabus, there is a portion of your grade (7%) devoted to a special project. Instead … Continue reading
First experience with Skype
Last Monday, I used the language-exchanges.org to create and announce a real-time Skype interchange. Basically, this allows you to send out a bulk email to all of the members who match up with a certain language pair (Spanish and English, in … Continue reading
quietube
If you’ve ever found a video you wanted to show in class but didn’t want all the noise that goes around it, try the quietube bookmark. Click on the bookmark and it will give you a nice, clean, white background like … Continue reading