This is Issue 2 of Volume NINETEEN of Elsie Speaks. Elsie is about the same age as most of our undergrad employees, so Elsie has decided to celebrate her status as a milennial by moo-ving to a new, interactive blog-based format.
This final “print” issue will spotlight outtakes from issues of yesteryear, all of which will continue to remain available uncut and unrated (at least back to volume 5) in the archives on the Language Center website.
Next fall Elsie will appear as a blog with sections dedicated to various topics. Readers (that’s you!) can react and chime in with their own ideas, tips, suggestions and, dare we say, warnings about using technology in language teaching. The new format will be piggy-backed onto our current ElsieTalk email notice service, which will have headlines and links straight to the pertinent sections of the blog.
We are currently planning blog sections dedicated to language-lab activities, Wimba, Moodle, WebVista, authentic video, web-exercise authoring, TandemPlus (including class-to-class exchanges), and “Technical Turf”. Also perhaps (less thrillingly), policy changes, staff turnover...
Let us know if we’re overlooking a topic you’d like to see included!