Audio Books and Driving
tokyokevinJim Dean, my dad's colleague and long-since-retired English teacher at Larkin high school near Chicago has a wonderful laugh and a razor sharp wit. His appreciation of English is also…
Madoka wins Speech Contest with Open Education
Madoka Madoka, a student in our department at Showa Women's University, won a week-long trip to Boston in the Hitomi Cup Speech Contest yesterday. In "Wonder brings a lifelong love…
I am donating to this wonderful project
Let me count the ways this project is good; good for the world, good for language learners, and good for me. First let…
Japan a market so mature it is dying
A good friend in the business has been long telling me that Japan is a mature market for language learning books, materials and software. The shrinking commercial areas at language…
How to cite a tweet in an academic paper
Alexis Madrigal over at Atlantic shows us how to cite a tweet from twitter in an academic paper. Go figure.