Today at the University of Iowa's Tête-à-Tête Professional Development Workshop, I facilitated an expository session about Google Hangouts for use in the foreign language classroom. The digital handout for this workshop is provided at http://bit.ly/HangoutTeT . I discovered Google Hangouts during my still ongoing hiatus of not teaching English language learners, so I don't have direct experience. However, in a professional and educational context, I have become more accustomed to and confident with Google Hangouts as both a consumer and producer of this free and easily accessible internet video conferencing (IVC) program. Google Hangouts as Consumer I knew about Google Hangouts for about a year before I realized its full potential. I was in the participant selection process of my dissertation project when I found Victor at http://www.youtube.com/user/Gimmeaflakeman . Victor is an English language teacher in Nagoya, Japan who uses Google Hangouts with other...
Attempting to bridge the research-practice gap in English language teaching with a focus on curriculum, instructional technology, and intercultural communication.