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Lesson study is a simple idea. If you want to improve instruction, what could be more obvious than collaborating with fellow teachers to plan, observe, and reflect on lessons? While it may be a simple idea, lesson study is a complex process, supported by collaborative goal setting, careful data collection on student learning, and protocols that enable productive discussion of difficult issues.

m-ICTE2009 wants to be an international forum for discussion among teachers, researchers and people who are interested in the ways emerging technologies are transforming education.

Forum discussion gathering ideas for magazine article on top-10 things that teachers should know that they didn't learn in their teacher education programs.

both the notice and takedown regime (DMCA section 512) and the anticircumvention provisions that make DVD-ripping illegal (DMCA section 1201) are part of the same law--the DMCA--though these two sections represent discrete components of the complex law. On Monday, we discussed section 512 in depth, so today, let's take a close look at how section 1201 applies to innovators like Lee, as well as current attempts to reform the law.

ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is a speech-based toolbox for language teachers. Like the language lab console of old, it's focused on the practice of oral/aural language, but at its core are very modern web-based audio and video tools from duber dot com: Voiceboards (an asynchronous speech tool), LiveChat (a 4-way conversation tool), and Voicerecorder (a widget for instant recordings). Each really opens up the scope and sequence of spoken language tasks. Creating media-rich lessons in ANVILL is simple and straightforward. There are templates for audio, video, and image tasks; there are also tools for text-based discussions like blogs and forums. ANVILL's assessment tool,Quizzes and Surveys, gives teachers an easy way to assign and respond to spoken language tasks. In addition, ANVILL is a course management system. Teachers who are doing distance or hybrid courses have a simple means of managing their students as well as their curriculum. We think you'll find that ANVILL is quite flexible, and permits the kind of extra listening and speaking practice that language students need so much. ANVILL is a project of the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. These tools are currently in use at UO and at a select number of K-12 sites around the Northwest. Thanks to our National Foreign Language Resource Center partners at CASLS, we are able to offer ANVILL to educators at no cost. Here is an overview of its features. If you think it would be helpful to you and your students, contact us to set up an account. Our two-year pilot study has just gotten underway and we're looking for language teachers at all levels to use it and tell us what they think.

This site provides access to a corpus of over 900 text samples gathered from test subjects at Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006 and 2007. Twenty-one subjects provide a completely correlated corpus in which each subject provided their opinion in each of six predetermined topics in each of six genres: blog, chat, discussion, email, essay, and interview. We hope this corpus will be useful to researchers in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics.

The dizzy speed of technological development has driven the educational market to pile up a huge number of software programs without any serious methodological concern and consideration of the application to a variety of learners. This paper reviews current software evaluation tools and their problems, followed by further specific discussion of issues related to language learning software programs. Based on the critique of dominant bottom-up approaches of current software evaluation, this paper tries to take a holistic methodological framework into serious consideration and to provide a tentative framework which addresses key areas in evaluating language learning software programs for educators and learners.

Free online tool for managing Q&A in classes. Students can submit questions; answers are given in wiki format (students can all edit 1 student-contributed answer, instructors can edit instructor-contributed answer).