Posts by Betsy:
Student again!
PhD student now. Too busy to blog!
But now that I am back in school, I have a profile page to share.
Enjoy!
SDoI: Chapter 5: Analyzing Learners and Contexts
[This is the sixth in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 before proceeding?] This chapter is about characterizing learners, the context in which they will be performing, and the context […]
SDoI: Chapter 4: Identifying Subordinate Skills and Entry Behaviors
[This is the fifth in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 before proceeding?] It’s been a while (okay, more than a year) since I posted about the previous chapter, but I have […]
Learning vocabulary using Rikaichan and Google News
One of my frustrations as a learner of Japanese has always been the amount of time lost to looking up unknown kanji. By the time I have found the right reading and the right word, I’ve forgotten what the surrounding context was, and I have to reread the sentence or paragraph. Online dictionaries certainly help […]
New theme
My site got hacked recently, so I’ve taken this as an opportunity to revamp the theme. I’ve customized the graphics, including my own business card on the lower right! Here’s what to do if your WordPress site ever gets hacked.
Goodbye, 2010. Welcome, 2011!
Working via the Internet defined 2010 for me. Although I wore many different hats as an independent contractor, all of them allowed me to do almost all of my work from my computer, here in Indiana or from various other places I traveled during the year. A couple of highlights: I began working as a […]
The People of Paper
We were lucky to have Salvador Plascencia come to the Notre Dame campus and read from The People of Paper on September 15. He was a very engaging speaker, and quite personable at the party afterward, as well. Because of this, our book club chose his book for our discussion yesterday. I really loved it! […]
Language learning while knitting
I recently learned to knit and crochet, which you may have noticed if you follow me on Facebook or Ravelry (username: betsylavolette – let’s be friends!). It’s a great way to pass the time when you’re captive in a car, casually chatting with family, or watching a movie, but sometimes I get out those needles/hooks […]
CALICO 2010: Great conference, or the greatest conference?
The Computer Assisted Language Learning Consortium Conference 2010 was in Amherst, MA, June 10 – 12. I summed up my feelings about it in this tweet: Goodbye, #calico2010! It was awesome, in terms of presentations, people, planning, place… Presentations I learned so much from the sessions! This was the first conference I’ve attended where I […]
Dimdim vs. Elluminate, Round 2
Several people have written to ask me for a copy of the paper I allude to in Dimdim vs. Elluminate: Fight! Well, the status of that paper has been “in press” since it was accepted by TechTrends in December 2009. I was hoping to wait until it was “officially” published in TechTrends before publishing it […]