Multilitteratus Incognitus

Well, it's been one crazy year! I've managed to complete my final two masters degrees, meet some great colleagues from sister campuses and forged new friendships with classmates in both linguistics and instructional design. My last academic blogpost for the year I've posted over at the UMass Online blog; the topic is Making Services Accessible . Go have a look and post you thoughts on the matter of making services available to students more easy to find. That's all for this year. Once I tackle my instapaper reading list I think will have more higher education, EdTech and instructional design stuff to write about. Until then, keep your mind sharp and don't stop learning! -- Post From My iPhone

Well, another crazy semester is now done! This semester was actually quite busy, despite the fact that I started preparing for it over the summer!  I had done most of the readings for my Psycholinguistics course, as well as starting to think about what I wanted to do with my Field Experience Practicum.  Despite all this planning, I ended up taking another route in my practicum, and preparations for my comprehensive exams (which were on my birthday this year) took up all of my available time. The practicum was an interesting experience. I got to teach the last two classes in a Classical Greek course on campus, in addition to observing the teaching methodology (as well as student reactions to this methodology) throughout the semester.  I did my final research project on putting forth a proposal to teach Classical Greek (and other classical languages for that matter) using communicative approaches that most modern classrooms use.  I also advocated different use of technology - but all

I was looking at the website of the journal (Human Architecture) in which I published an article last summer and I saw that it's out!  The journal hasn't hit SocIndex or EBSCO yet, but I guess it's official :-) Check it out either at okcir.com (link above), or the copy I've placed on my Scribd account