Tag: technology

  • Digital World Workshop for TA Community

    Digital World Workshop for TA Community
  • Innovative Online Interaction with Familiar Tools

    Innovative Online Interaction with Familiar Tools

    Presentation Access the Slides EXPLORE MOREVirtual Interaction and Community

  • Re-imagining Virtual Interaction

    Re-imagining Virtual Interaction

    Using Gather.Town to re-imagine interaction in virtual and hybrid language learning

  • The Spider and the Butterfly

    The Spider and the Butterfly

    This perspective on remote learning and teaching may sound strange at first, but bear with me.

  • Tech-Savvy FL Teachers Recommend…

    Tech-Savvy FL Teachers Recommend…

    Finding the right tool can be difficult for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the tech tools are hard to find because we aren’t quite sure what we are looking for. We can search by the names and types of tools, but it is harder to search based on what we want them to do. When […]

  • Keep Teaching FLT for Proficiency

    Keep Teaching FLT for Proficiency

    Whether you have to teach remotely or you just want to use technology in innovative ways… Keep focusing on teaching language for proficiency! It doesn’t matter how many great new platforms, apps, and sites you use if they don’t increase learners’ ability to express themselves, understand others, and negotiate meaning in the TL.  But if […]

  • Are You Ready to Go #RemoteFLT?

    Are You Ready to Go #RemoteFLT?

    How is the transition to remote learning going for you? What are your needs? What are your recommendations? Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/are-you-ready-to-go-remoteflt/ Please take a few minutes to share your situation and responses to it. We will return the favor by sharing results and suggestions. Here are new posts that offer responses to […]

  • Welcome to the Online Learning World

    Welcome to the Online Learning World

    Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/welcome-to-the-online-learning-world/ Friends, colleagues, students, parents of small children, lend me your ears: there are no easy answers. Education is changing before our eyes, and some of those changes will last. Some of them will not. Going remote quickly is going to tax your patience, your learning abilities, your discipline, and […]

  • Creating and Sharing a Video Presentation

    Creating and Sharing a Video Presentation

    #MAFLTutorial from the MAFLT Community site in D2L Updated 3/20/2020 The following instructions were originally created to teach MAFLT Students how to complete the technical aspects of sharing a video presentation with their peers in D2L. There are other ways to share video presentations, and there are other ways and reasons why you might share […]

  • Surviving and Thriving in Zoom

    Surviving and Thriving in Zoom

    When the message came around on March 12 that MSU was going completely over to remote instruction, most people’s first response was to recommend live (or “synchronous”) meetings in Zoom. You can find information on how to access Zoom as a tool and modify the settings and so on fairly easily – but how do […]