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While we have an excellent mock-Shakespeare course in our online CMS demo environments, we’d like you to give us your first-hand accounts of your schools teaching English classes with Wimba.

I’m trying something new this spring that I hope will work out well.

In my World Lit course, I’ve created a podcast for several of the challenging texts students are required to read.  The idea is that students will have the podcast ready as they read the text.  I’m organizing the podcast in such a way so that if it’s loaded on an iPod, students will see the line numbers for the work.  If they have questions when they read Hesiod’s Theogyny, for example, or the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, they will have a podcast “at the ready” they can listen to.  I’m hoping this creates an additional layer of context and meaning for them.

To combat the “I’m distracted by the podcast as I read” possibility, I’m asking that they scroll on their iPod to see the line numbers where I have commentary and that they mark these lines in their text PRIOR to reading.  This way, they can read as they usually do, only that they can pause when they get to certain lines to hear my commentary.

I think of it as one of those DVD bonus tracks--the director commentary.  I just hope students find it useful.

Terry

My Blackboard environment offers access to many English teachers. Some have begun to do innovative activities with Learning Objects wikis.  They have just been introduced to the Wimba Express Voice Board and Class Tools.

I am interested in applications of these two specific tools to support Secondary English teachers.  If I see anything useful, I will either reference those activities here, or send the teachers here themselves.

We are anticipating using the Wimba Voice Board in foreign language classes soon.  Ideas there would also be welcome!

I have a course in Autobiography writing, running as a web application. If you’re interested in access codes to take a look at it let me know and I’ll send them to you:

http://pinnaclecourse.com

John C. Menapace

Could you plz tell me how to enroll there...??

hi, I am very much interested in English courses, before that anyone knows a good guide with regard to grammars etc? I prefer on Online guide, its more accessible. Books would help too.

Hello,

I need some good online English grammar course which covers all the basics and for proper grammatical usage. My English is not so bad there are lots of grammatical mistakes in it. When I submit my articles for review it took time.. Thanks

I recently met a Japanese woman who grew up in a dissenting household during World War II. I also learned that some Buddhist leaders were jailed for dissent by the Tojo government. Now, if I had thought about it I’m sure I would’ve realized that dissent was just as widespread in Japan as it was in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. However, I never thought about it because I don’t remember ever seeing it mentioned before. Can anyone point me towards good English-language books, articles or websites about dissent in WWII-era Japan? Or, in a pinch, summarize non-English sources?

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