Posts Tagged as ‘italian’

18 Feb 2009

il tiramisù di mia madre

Yesterday’s fun event for Simone and I was to make tiramisù, a no-bake dessert which just needs to sit overnight to set. This morning, she proudly presented it to her principal.

Here is my mom’s recipe…one of the best I know of so I hope you try it and let me know how it went.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
3 [...]

17 Dec 2008

Using the right tech tool for teaching…how did you decide?

I have deliberated this post to death, wanting to ensure that I made a positive contribution to the discussion of social network sites (SNS). As an educator, my use of SNS is always from a professional perspective (yeah, right), wanting to investigate different tools for language learning and teaching.
During one of the umpteenth [...]

16 Sep 2008

Twitter in the Foreign Language Classroom – my investigation

Another update: paper has been removed as it is under revisions as  you read this. Will share once again in the near future…
update: if you would like to read the manuscript, it is password protected. Thanks for the head’s up Luke.
I’ll keep this post brief and to the point, as I should be concentrating on [...]

19 May 2008

to learn italian or english? both…

One of the greatest rewards of teaching is when your students teach you something. I have taught one of the most challenging courses in my 4 years here this spring semester: Advanced Italian Grammar a.k.a intro to Italian linguistics. I attempted to present students to the scientific study of language, from phonology to morphology to [...]

9 May 2008

courses taking on a new design in SP09

The end of another academic year is coming to a close and this brings me much relief. I would like to focus my efforts on my tenure package and continue to ride on the wave of teaching with technology in my department. This is an exciting time for the department, the most exciting in fact [...]

1 Apr 2008

Teaching with Twitter & Learning to Tweet

some shameless self-promotion…if you happen to be in the area, please do attend. I know, it is during your lunch break…so bring your lunch, I don’t mind
Teaching with Twitter & Learning to Tweet

What is Twitter?
The easiest reply to this question is to tell you what it is not–it is not e-mail, IM, [...]

15 Mar 2008

a new discovery or two

I was invited to give a talk at the NJ Italian & Italian Heritage Commission Annual Symposium at Rutgers yesterday. I share this with you for two reasons: 1) I had no internet access and found myself wanting to write tweet but couldn’t; and 2) was rewarded by the experience.

Let’s start with the Internet…OK, so [...]

27 Feb 2008

a plea for tech assistance with research

Sometimes I wonder if I just get carried away with some big research schemes that realistically I can’t undertake alone. For example, preparing for my big presentation this weekend @ Rutgers, I discovered that I cannot access all the data for comparison purposes. I tried Twitter help but haven’t received any response.
If you aren’t already [...]

13 Jan 2008

twitter & teaching/learning Italian

In early 2007, I joined Twitter, one of the many social networking and micro-blogging services. According to Wikipedia, Twitter

allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application
in italiano, anche da Wikipedia… Twitter è un network e [...]