new article, new journal online
Virtual Learning: A toe in the pool of the new media, is an article I've written for
Global Study, a very professional magazine that has printed several of my stories. This is their new website. I appreciate the honor of being the front-line author in this! They are very nice people too!
Linguistics at SIUC
Save the
Linguistics Department! With the publication of
this article (may be slow-loading), the struggle to save Linguistics has become more public. The question really is whether an MA TESOL program can survive, let alone flourish, without a Linguistics Department. In a Foreign Languages Dept.? In English? By itself? I don't think so.
One might look around at a time like this and say, the market is flooded with English teachers...they're all over the world, they're being turned out by places with much less than SIUC. But that's exactly my point. At a time when other schools (like
No. Ariz. Univ. and
Univ. of So. Mississippi) are going pro, setting up TESOL PhD.'s, that's what we should be doing also.
Training the teacher-trainers...
Now is the time to save Linguistics...let them know how you feel. We voted unanimously to
save the department...now it is time for the Faculty Senate, the Board of Trustees, etc. to
do the same...
CESL Today
I've been working on
volume 62, 055. You're the first to see it; it's not linked from anywhere yet. It's not quite finished...it's tedious...but very orange. Happy Halloween!
50 links
Apologies again for revisionism...if you had linked up to one of those posts that I deleted, I may have lost them. The first thing that can be said about the fifty links is that the webheads chats generate a lot of useful connections, even if one is in the wrong "room" or if one isn't ready for podcasting. The world is changing quickly and it's good to at least
talk about it.
That brings me back to chat itself, which is a relatively new medium for me. I'm getting used to it by allowing the baseball playoffs to come to me in chat-style format. It's interesting.
