Are you a language teacher in Europe and do you happen to use social media tools in your curriculum? If this is the case, you can join a competition hosted by the European network "Language Learning and Social Media - … Continue reading →

In this week’s MRU we take a look at three of my favorite services, two of them got acquired and one got some serious traction. Hence we will take a look at Delicious which was sold from Yahoo to the … Continue reading →

About a year ago TeachStreet took a quite radical step and switched the freemium model into premium only for teachers. I amongst others saluted Dave Schappell and the team for this move. Today Dave posted an update on the TeachStreet … Continue reading →

As there have been a couple of smaller updates and news around the three language learning communities recently, I thought I might as well combine them in one blog post to give you a quick overview on the current state … Continue reading →

Bill Gates Takes On Education’s Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games - "As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games." Fast Company YouTube To Go Beyond Cat Videos By Training a New Class … Continue reading →

I’m particularly happy to share the newest EDUKWEST with you all today as it covers a new new trend that is manifesting itself in online education. What we got out as one of the important results of that recent busuu … Continue reading →

I know, I predicted that kind of business model somewhere before, either in one of my posts or in a comment. It was definitely in the discussion string about "Google Translate: The End of the Road for Interpreters?" which then … Continue reading →

This is the second post in my little social media series for beginners and today I would like to share some hints with you on how to build an audience for your personal or your company blog or maybe even … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I nosed into the translator business a little deeper. In my teaching career this has never been an interesting field to me as I basically thought being a native German speaker was simply not sufficient to be a good … Continue reading →

There is always a multitude of reasons why I enjoy talking with him [Koichi], not only that he appeared in one of the very first episodes (EDUKWEST #4) and gave me some credit sort of ex ante the interview concept … Continue reading →