ChinesePod has been selected in the Podcast Awards for 2007. The results are based on a public poll.
We’d appreciate your votes over there. It would be nice to win the thing. Apparently you can vote once per day for the next 2 weeks or so.
Ken Carroll
Archive for July, 2007
July has been a good month for SpanishSense - first we released the SpanishSense Fix, and now we are releasing the first resource that is unique to SpanishSense - Verb Tables.
The rules governing verbs in Spanish are a real advantage for students (although they don’t always feel that way!), because learning a few simple rules […]
Were you planning to attend the Olympics next year but were afraid that you’d get lost in the sea of people? Were you secretly panic-stricken by the thought that no one’s there to guide you as you trek your way through the Olympic village or, at the very least, tell you where the nearest vending […]
Exam Nightmares and the ChinesePod Test Playground
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 30 CommentsYou’re not sure how it happened, but you’re back in school. Instead of the honorary doctorate you vaguely remember being promised, you’re confronted with a 40 page exam on post-modern game theory. Being a ChinesePod subscriber, you’re feeling chuffed about the portion of the exam in Chinese, but even so are having trouble focusing […]
ChinesePod and SpanishSense hit Facebook
Published by July 20th, 2007 in General, Innovation, Learning 2.0, News and Uncategorized. 20 CommentsWith 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 […]
Although “fashionably late,” the Grammar Guide has finally joined the ChinesePod party. Today I would like to explain the purpose of the Grammar Guide, how to use it, what it is now, and what it will be in the future. Before I go on, though, I should say that the Grammar Guide is a ChinesePod […]
In my last post here I talked about building language learning communities, and today I’m happy to announce the birth of ChinesePod Cantonese, a forum dedicated to learners of what may well be the coolest sounding of the Chinese dialects. It is being administered by AuntieSue, a familiar face in the ChinesePod community, and is […]
The Tech Team at ChinesePod has been busy adding requested functionality to the site, and we are pleased to announce that the following changes are already in effect:
Most active users. It’s useful to know which users are most active on ChinesePod. They tend to know really well how to use the site, which lessons are […]
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 […]
At Praxis Language, we realize that language learning is a social phenomenon, but when we look across the Internet there is a distinct lack of communities for most language learners. We’d like to help fill this gap by creating forums (much like our ChinesePod forum) for students of other languages.
This is where you come in! […]
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