(4) from Douglas W. Canfield I don't know how many of you follow Inside Higher Ed., but it has been my experience that anything that Joshua Kim pens has to be taken with a grain of salt...you'll notice he doesn't get a lot of comments on his entries, which for someone who is begging for them speaks volumes. I find he is mostly off-the-mark (present case in point), so much so that it seems pointless to take on the task of continually correcting him, although this case might be an opportunity to gently inform him of his misinformed state.... doug ________________________________________ Douglas W. Canfield Coordinator III, Language Resource Center Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures University of Tennessee Co-Editor in Chief, The IALLT Journal [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~dcanfie1/ Skype: dougcanfield Second Life: Rockytop Berchot (5) from [log in to unmask] I wouldn't worry too much about language labs being #7 on Joshua Kim's (Inside Higher Ed) list of obsolete technologies. The assertion is baseless. Did you notice that language labs are not actually on The Silicon Alley Insider& ThingsThat Became Obsolete This Decade; as Kim insinuates. Kim's list is really just Kim's personal opinion. (6) from Luz Forero Good idea to let them know we are surviving personally-owned laptops, Cindy! That's why language labs keep reinventing themselves. Language centers are still relevant if we staff them with engaged students who know how to use all the fun technology that is available and who attract other students to a vibrant, bustling space. Language teaching and learning was never about the machines, anyway. It has always been about people. The new technologies allow us to be more social than ever in other languages. Take that, BlogU! Happy New Year greetings to you and to all LLTI-ers! Luz _______________________ Luz Forero Assistant Director, Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations Pomona College 350 N. College Way Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 607-1159 http://oldenborg.pomona.edu *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************