Coming Soon….
I have three interviews scheduled for next month, and I am inviting questions.
The first interview is at the PanSig conference in Osaka, with Kip Cates. Kip has been active in promoting global issues in language education for many years, and I am looking forward to talking about his work with the Asian Youth Forum, JALT, the Peace Boat and other socially aware associations.
The next two interviews will take place at the JALTCALL conference in Kyoto. The first is with Joy Egbert of Washington State University. I am especially interested in the book she is bringing out this year about CALL in limited technology contexts. Looking forward to hearing about how we should engage our students.
I will also talk to Larry Davies, mainly about Learning Management Systems. Are they old hat? Are institutions living in the 1990′s whilst the students move into 2020?
The abstracts for both Larry and Joy’s plenaries are available here.
So, this post is a bit of a taster, but also an appeal for questions. I have actually been invited to JALTCALL in an official capacity this time around, so I feel a greater responsibility to make the interviews the best I possibly can! Cheers all!
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Sorry to reply late to this Darren.
I want to say that it’ll be great to see your interview with Kip Gates. I met Kip at one of my presentations at a conference in Korea (going back a good 7-8 years now…), where I was actually presenting something with a global issues theme for younger learners, and I was lucky enough to have Kip in my audience, asking some great questions. A real gentleman, and his commitment to global issues in language teaching is amazing.
If I were to ask Kip a question (or three!), it would be along the lines of “What’s been happening with global issues and language teaching over the past decade? How is it developing or evolving? Is attention to global issues getting more mainstream attention and priority compared to 10 years ago?”
Possibly selfish questions, based on the fact I met and chatted with Kip close to a decade ago!
On an aside, the chat with Kip and some research into his work actually had a real impact on my writing of Boost! Global issues were a definite priority, as well as “glocal” materials, as I went about writing that series for learners in the 9-14 age brackets. If you get time, tell Kip I said thanks and there IS a coursebook writer out there who has listened to and benefited from his work on this front!
Cheers,
~ Jason
Oh, and I meant Kip Cates – not Kip Gates (that other relative of Bill’s who works in Microsoft’s Global Issuing of Products department, not Global Issues). Sorry about that little typo.
~ J
He was an absolute gent when I asked him, so I’m looking forward to meeting him. I’ve been reading his articles to prepare and I’m enjoying it!