“Trying to get them to use modal verbs while they’re being chased by a bear”

Todd Bryant on language learning within the online game World of Warcraft

Interview with Todd Bryant (mp3- download with right click) Transcript below

Why did you start using World of Warcraft in the classroom in 2006?
I think I started to think about games whenever Sims Online came out ….I don’t know if you remember it or [...]


MILLEE: Literacy phones home

After 4 years of field-testing, the MILLEE Project hopes to go big time in India. MILLEE - Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies - grew out of Matthew Kam’s doctoral thesis at the University of California, Berkeley. His idea was to use phones and educational computing to improve English language learning for [...]