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Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
New Books
I went to the bookstore today and bought two new books. One for my SLA class that will start in March and the other just out of general interest. The first book is An Introduction to Second Langauge Acquisition Research. I am hoping that this book will be far more readable than the Rod Ellis book that is the set text, which I find incredibly difficult to read and stay focused on.
The second book I bought is Technology and Teaching English Language Learners. I bought this book out of a general interest in CALL. I am a little disappointed that my masters program at Macquarie University does not include a unit on CALL let alone a major. It’s not that I need a class to follow as I can learn all I need on my own. But I do think it would be better to have a more principled approach to my studies.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Feb 16, 2004 at 05:21 PM
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Sandra wrote 19 words on Thursday Feb 19, 2004 at 03:44 AM
What’s CALL?
I told you I’m a complete novice.
Argh!!!
You can tell me all about it on Sunday.
Sean. wrote 28 words on Thursday Feb 19, 2004 at 09:47 AM
C - computer
A - assisted
L - language
L - learning
hope that helps.. I’ll bring the book with me to show you. See you on Sunday.
Sandra wrote 32 words on Friday Feb 20, 2004 at 02:21 AM
CALL… Computer Assisted Language Learning??? Wow! That’s sooooo my sphere of interest… can’t wait to pick your brain and as we say in Aussie “Chew yer ear off” about that on Sunday.