The Shanghai Daily ran a story on us in this morning’s edition.
Ken Carroll
Archive for May, 2007
The Practice Plan offers the chance to practice speaking Mandarin for a few minutes every day on Skype with a ChinesePod coach. (Here’s a description of the Practice Plan when it was known as the 8 Week Program, though the details differ slightly now.)
You can never reach fluency in a second (or 3rd) language […]
Text has dominated learning for 500 years, but no longer…
Here’s a post I meant to link to last week but never got round to. Jeff Jarvis notes how Google plan to include video, photos, and news into their search results. He says:
This promotes other media to the exalted rank of text… You […]
In recent weeks I’ve been thinking about learner autonomy more and more – learning on your terms. Below are some notes I took on the topic, some of them proimpted by Phil Benson’s excellent Teaching and Researching Autonomy in Language Learning.
“The autonomous learner is one that constructs knowledge from direct experience, rather […]
You may have come across references to ‘Praxis Language’ in recent times, so let me give you some background to it.
In September 2005, myself, Hank Horkoff, and Steve Williams put together the resources to begin the ChinesePod project. The experience has been kind of like watching a child grow. Over time, we’ve come to […]
The 21st Century Campus
Published by May 20th, 2007 in Integrated Learning and Praxis Language. 2 CommentsWhile Blackboard created a lot of angst in the e-learning community last year when they tried to enforce their patent on learning management systems, they are the dominant e-learning provider (helped by their WebCT acquisition) in the United States with ~80% market share. While I personally disagree with their use of proprietary, closed systems, they […]
I talked with Maria Massarini today about using memorization techniques to learn languages. Let me share my thoughts on the topic.
Ultimately, learning a language is a feat of memory. No memory, no learning. This insight is one of the key drivers of how we structure ChinesePod and SpanishSense, yet many people may not […]
We have retested the torrent file, and it’s working great. To download a torrent file, you need a BitTorrent client (for example, BitComet or Azureus).
After your BitTorrent client is installed, your system should recognize the torrent filetype. Click on the link below and open the file with your BitTorrent client. That will get the download […]
Hi guys,
We’re looking for Chinese teachers who live in Shanghai to join our Practice Plan team (formerly known as the 8 week program, sometimes called Octagon, etc). We want to talk to you if you are enthusiastic, experienced, passionate, and an awesome Mandarin teacher. Are you such a person?
Alternatively, do you have a […]
second Here’s the second in the Beyond E Learning series. This time I talk with Jay Cross about the learning revolution and how he sees the future. As the man who is credited with coining the term ‘e-learning’ I think Jay has some worthwhile insights into what might come next.
The context here […]
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