Archive for August, 2010

Podcasting. Best practice examples

Published by Martin G. Döpel on August 12th, 2010

Here is my Prezi from the presentation given on 12 August 2010 at CDTL.


The perfect handshake

Published by Martin G. Döpel on August 12th, 2010

I talked about this in yesterday’s class. Some scientists have found the formula for the “perfect handshake”, the formula is not as interesting as their illustration:

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When it comes to language, it’s use it or lose it

Published by Martin G. Döpel on August 6th, 2010

It’s the same thing every semester – although I’m preaching to learn regularly, the students panic before the test and try to memorize as much as possible. Though memorizing is also part of language learning, it shouldn’t be the sole one. Language is tricky to learn, because it’s both – knowledge and skill.
In this post, I want to give some advices on learning vocab and practicing language in a foreign language environment. (more…)