A note from Jose Rodriguez about MeGlobe: We’ve created an Instant Messaging application, called Meglobe, that also performs real time language translation. I thought you might be interested in taking a look since it can be used as a tool for students and educators to collaborate globally across language barriers.  Meglobe is web based and supports 15 different languages. [...]

Here are some notes and reactions to the “Growing Up Online” special as it goes… Some initial introductions, showing students as deceptive about online activity and generally showing parents as luddites Scenes from schools, teachers claiming that they need to be “entertainers” and that it is difficult for students to focus and can not be [...]

It’s been about a year since I’ve seen an article like this pop up — perhaps it has to do with going back to school and all the negative ideas that technology can bring in relation to the state of our language and culture: The walls between the school and the cellphone or computer screen [...]

Of the four presentations that I have to do today, tomorrow, and Friday, there is one that I am really developing from the ground up and need to think through quite a bit. In thinking about how Mobile Social Software and other read/write web tools are impacting youth, this question will become increasingly important as [...]

Well, guess what is back in the news: IM Shorthand Slips Off Computer Screens And Into Schoolwork – washingtonpost.com “They are using it absolutely everywhere,” said Sara Goodman, an English teacher at Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County who has worn out many purple and red markers circling the offending phrases in papers and tests. [...]

A study from the University of Toronto’s Linguistics Department has now verified what many writing teachers have been trying to argue all along — instead of ruining kids’ grammar, IM is actually a different discursive register and that kids end up code switching between IM and other forms of communication quite clearly. Here is an [...]