Today in world language news

1.)  The NBPTS's daily e-mail included a link to this article.  It talks about an online game that a teacher uses to teach Latin.  It sounds like exactly the kind of thing I dreamed about doing: technology and immersive language learning.  There is a link inside the article to the Pericles group, who is making the website.  I hope to learn more about it; if somebody is doing this sort of work, I'm going to want to keep on top of it.  I wouldn't know, however, whether I would want to use something somebody else made, or whether I'd want to help them make it.

2.)  I've decided that next year, at the MiWLA conference, I'm going to apply to present a session:  Using cell phones in the language class.  I think I do pretty well at this, but ultimately the purpose would be self-serving.  I'd hope somebody would get up in the middle of the presentation and say, "This is stupid.  We've been doing this for years, and this is what I'm doing it which is SOOOO much better than what you're doing."  That would be awesome.

MiWLA

I went to the MiWLA conference today.  I always like going to this conference; it reaffirms my sense of competence as a teacher, and I always come away with a few good ideas.  In the past, I often went with a sense of insecurity in my job, and came away feeling reaffirmed.

Today, I went feeling great in my job, and came away wanting to be anything but a Spanish teacher.

I have been toying with the idea of learning to program in a few different languages, and creating language content.  I've especially been excited by the idea of electric textbooks, especially of the open source variety.  I talked to a small business owner in the educational content field, and got some great ideas for how to move forward with a similar situation.

I went to a meeting called "K-16 Articulation."  Now I want to be an ISD curriculum advisor.

The thing is, I'm still super-excited to go back to my school tomorrow.