What can The Onion (or its French equivalent) teach us about language and...
I am a pretty big RSS junkie, and my Feedly is often in a state of flux as I add new cool feeds and trim down unnecessary ones. One of my favorite recent additions to my Feedly is Le Gorafi, a French...
View ArticleEthiopian food and cultural artifacts at 2am.
When we’re introducing ourselves to new people, Kathryn and I often mention (and joke about) our different backgrounds. Florence isn’t really a small town, but Torrance boasts about five times its...
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“Grad school *does* come true!”, or “Once again a French teacher”
One of the hardest parts about applying to grad school and choosing to come to MSU was having to explain to Mme Burton-Ratcliffe and Mme Thompson that I was leaving my brand new French teaching career...
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French, islands, and inequalities: A gaming and learning success
I’m trying something interesting with my French “students” this semester. I’ve long been fascinated with thought experiments that involve restarting civilization from scratch: As a freshman at BYU, I...
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Wikis as (unexpectedly good!) translation resources
I’m a language teacher, which means that my dictionary needs are usually short notice, on the fly checks to save face when I can’t remember a word or help a student out with a word or phrase that I’ve...
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Mind-mapping my way through grad school with Scapple.
Early in grad school, and on recommendation from a family member, a grad student, and a professor, I picked up a copy of Scrivener, a word processor that works differently than any other word processor...
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Swiss accents and using the Internet as a French teacher
Last week, on August 1st, I popped over to Radio Télévision Suisse to spend a couple of minutes celebrating the Swiss national holiday. While I was there, I spotted an article containing five “spoken...
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A walkthrough of a “French train station simulator” that I made with Twine.
A couple of years ago, I linked to a presentation I’d put together on the game-making software Twine and spoke some about its potential for designing educational games. This semester, I’m helping to...
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