Monday, January 14, 2013
1st Blog Post
My name is Marianna, and this is my first blog. I am taking a course in Computer Applications in Linguistics. This is a new endeavor for me as I am, more or less, a ludite. I am only as connected to technology as I have to be. In fact, before embarking on the adventure that is grad school, I taught kids in the woods. There was no technology there. We used pinecones and rocks as teaching aids. We didn't even have cell phone reception! However, as I am going into the field of TESL, and as computer applications for language teaching apper here to stay, I thought it would be a practical course to take. I hope that I will be pleasantly surprised by the myraid ways in which language learning can be accomplished through computer technologies. I don't really know what to expect from this course. I have no idea what types of computer applications are out there. I'm just hoping to familiarize myself with the technology that is out there and finally become part of the 21st century.
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Marianna, I think it's interesting that in at least two posts for this class--yours and mine--the word luddite has come up. Thanks to the likes of Dr. Biber, I can't help thinking, what if we made a corpus of these posts? What would be the most frequent words? How would luddite rank, and would each case be used in a positive or negative fashion? It seems that this class is bringing our a-technology attitudes to the forefront. Yet, here I am, on the internet, communicating with a post instead of just walking around the corner of our office to talk to you.
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