--- Forwarded Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:19:16 -0500 >From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Language Lab Unleashed: the skypecast, the podcast, the chat >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) Greetings: Some of you may know the podcast called "Edtechtalk: Educational Technology that Talks". This show was created by two educators, Jeff Flynn in New Hampshire (US), and Dave Cormier in PEI (Canada) and together they hold either brainstorming sessions about educational technology or they interview an individual or individuals about what they have done in the field. In either situation, there is a Skype conference call (of up to 5 people) that is streamed live (and recorded to be distributed later as a podcast). Parallel to the live audio there is a web-based synchronous text chat that can accommodate and additional several dozen people. The live commentators or interviewees answer questions from the chat room, or the chat room goes off on its own tangent... every week it is a little bit different. I encourage you to look at their website (http://edtechtalk.com) to see the topics they have covered, whom they have interviewed, and the schedule of upcoming broadcasts/podcasts. Speaking of upcoming broadcasts: EdtechTalk has offered to do a spin off show that focuses on /language/ technology and education. They have asked me to host it. I will be joined by Buthaina al-Othman, an ESL professor at the University of Kuwait and technologist extraordinaire, as well as by Ewan McIntosh, Development Officer of MFLE, Scottish CILT who has recently made several presentations about using podcasts in modern language teaching. This particular brainstorming session will be called Language Lab Unleashed and is scheduled to air on January 5th at 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT). Check http://edtechtalk.com or http://languagelabunleashed.com for further details. I hope you will join us either via Skype, or via the telephone call in numbers (to be announced) or via the chat room! Check for further details as the time draws near... Hope to see/hear you there! Barbara -- Barbara Sawhill Director, Cooper International Learning Center Lecturer, Hispanic Studies Department Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 Voice: 440-775-8595 Fax: 440-775-6888 http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc President-elect, IALLT http://www.iallt.org "The plural of anecdote is -not- data" *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************