With an increasing need to teach multiple literacies, WebQuests are as relevant today as they were at the dawn of the internet. They are adaptable to student needs as well as the curriculum, and they allow teachers to create material that focuses on student development in engaging and motivating ways that can, in turn, inspire collaboration, creativity, and linguistic development. Extremely student-centered but teacher guided, WebQuests offer access to authentic tasks through the use of a scaffolded learning approach based on constructivism and situated learning, and these tasks are completed...

Blogs and wikis are different to other websites because they demand interaction. They revolve around information sharing, and allow students to produce content rather than consume it, and react to existing content and influence it. The authorship process gives students a sense of ownership and responsibility to the content that they develop for an audience, as they work together as part of a learning community. They also teach students about personal learning environments, and lend themselves easily to socio-constructivist models of teaching and learning, while providing an avenue for...

VoiceThread firmly establishes itself as a tool that has the exciting potential to give an actual audible voice to those language students who rarely, if ever, speak the target language in class, and it does so by providing students with the means to construct visually-based digital conversations. In the light of this, the pedagogical affordances provided by asynchronous computer-mediated communication with this tool are considered, along with the types of educational VoiceThreads that are in use today. The efficacy behind VoiceThread development, with and for students, is then oriented...

"Am I doing this?" George beseeched the unknown mechanism, out loud, wondering if some amazing probabilistic coincidence was in effect instead. The year is 1997. In his garage in the sleepy suburbs of Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Carter has just inadvertently created a telepathic receiver while trying to conduct an experiment on X-ray bands. Unfortunately, he has no idea how he did it. But while he is working on perfecting the new device, others become aware of George's experiments. It is only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Meanwhile, in an unknown location somewhere in the...

Of all the approaches to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), the loanword approach is mindful of the English words found within students' native languages, and seeks to apply these in the learning process for positive transfer. Taking into account research and implementation going back to and prior to the last millennium, here is a study of such a use in the Korean context. As focus is on implementing the loanword approach from multimedia-based learning materials, the Korean cultural influences on computer assisted language learning (CALL) of English as a foreign...

Since the turn of the century, emerging technologies, along with their use in educational contexts, have seen a number of radical changes occur within the learner landscape, and these have impacted both teachers and students. This has seen changes in the way that learners engage with content and interact with instructors. Technological advancement has been rapid, and its impact on teaching and learning is ever-constant. This has led to a need for educators to continually assess and consider the implication that new and emerging technologies hold for their teaching contexts, their professional...

In a world where there is still a digital divide, and where many second-language learners are digital natives, the internet has unquestionably come to provide significant impact on the way that we communicate, teach, learn, and live. The major pedagogical promise has come with the shift away from the static provision of information to that of dynamic information sharing and user-generated content. The internet has become much more than a source of authentic materials and supplemental resources for the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); it now provides a means for...

David Kent unlocked the files of Department Thirty in his electrifying debut novel, "a thrill-a-minute ride" (Mystery Scene). Now he returns to the elusive government agency that erases criminal identities in exchange for lethal secrets -- in a heart-pounding new thriller.

Raised by his tough but loving distant cousin Colleen, Eric Anthony never cared or asked what became of the parents who abandoned him early in life. But now Colleen is dying, and Eric, single dad to his young deaf son, is left with a mind-boggling mystery revealed in Colleen's last breaths: a cryptic...