In episode 30, Jose Luis de Ramon Ruiz interviews Patrick Murphy about how his teaching has changed during his nearly 20 year career teaching language courses at the university level. In their conversation, they touch on how Patrick uses Twitter to connect students to real-time culture as well as his future plans for virtual reality as a learning tool. Patrick also discusses how being afraid to fail can keep teachers from taking important risks in their classrooms.
You can read the transcript of this episode here.
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You can find Patrick Murphy online…
…by email patrick.r.murphy@vanderbilt.edu
…or on Twitter @murphyfall2014
You can find Jose Luis de Ramon Ruiz online…
…by email joseluisdr.ruiz@vanderbilt.edu
To learn more about the other virtual and augmented reality projects mentioned on the episode, here are some more links…
…faculty page for Professor Carlos Miguel-Pueyo
…virtual reality for language learning at University of Texas San Antonio
…Indiana’s funded SOTL research project on augmented reality
We have heard from other teachers on the show who have used Twitter in interesting ways in their teaching…
