Ken Carroll in Esquire Magazine
Things are heating up in China with temperatures reaching close to 40c, with the Olympic just days away and with Praxis Language at the focal point of global media!
The latest in a long line of media interest in the ongoing success story of the language podcast crew is Esquire Magazine, who have just released their [...]
SpanishPod comes 3rd in SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards
After just over 6 months online, SpanishPod.com has been awarded 3rd place in the education category of SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards.
SpanishPod was first shortlisted by SEOmoz and then selected by “some of the web’s best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people” as the third best educational site on the entire world wide web!
Some other notable winners [...]
‘A vision of students today’ is insipid agitprop
Here’s a video that recently did the rounds with the edubloggers. (I can’t access it in China at the moment - transcript is here.) It was produced by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology as Kansas State University.
The video has received much acclaim, including from people I admire, but I must say I developed an instant aversion to it. The problem [...]
Learning 2.0 conference kicks off
This weekend sees the Learning 2.0 conference at the Concordia International school in Shanghai. The focus of the 3-day event is ‘Communication, Collaboration, Connection’ and how web 2.0 will affect learning. This Ning site offers lots of information and insights from the event.
I went along with ChinesePod sound engineer, David Xu, who recorded the opening session (Fri [...]
ChinesePod and SpanishSense hit Facebook
With Facebook all over the news these days, and VC-backed development teams from Wuxi to Anping scrambling to roll-out Chinese editions of the site, I’m pleased to announce our own little contribution to the social networking frenzy: official ChinesePod and SpanishSense applications for Facebook.
We’ve been lucky enough to have a bunch of brave early-adopters and [...]
i-Lectures?
Perhaps falling under an ‘Obvious’ category, Campus Technology concludes:
“Podcasting does not contain any inherent value. It is only valuable inasmuch as it helps the instructor and students reach their educational goals, by facilitating thoughtful, engaging learning activities that are designed to work in support of those goals.”
We here at Praxis see technology as ‘plumbing’ so [...]
Microlearning?
Continuing on our theme of mobile learning (with all the iPhone madness going on), I thought this presentation by Ajit Jaokar from futuretext entitled “Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile Widgets, Microlearning and Intertwingularity” fit right in: