I have recently come across a very interesting chapter in The Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, written by Joan M. Mazur, University of Kentucky:

Conversation Analysis for Educational Technologists: Theoretical and Methodological Issues for Researching the Structures, Processes, and Meaning of On-line Talk.

This gives anyone interested in how to apply CA to CMC in educational contexts a great overview!

At the moment I

For a class in university pedagogy that I

It looks like May 2006 could be an interesting month:

NetLearning 2006, Ronneby, Sweden, May 8-10 2006

ICCA06: International Conference on Conversation Analysis, Helsinki, Finland, May 10-14 2006

The Language of Communication Mediated by Information and Communication Technology, Bordeaux, France, May 18-20 2006

Nathan Shedroff, the author of Experience Design, is visiting HUMlab this week. He

This is just to let my Swedish readers know that I’ve published a report from the EUROCALL conference on the EUROCALL Sverige page, if anyone is interested.

As promised in an earlier entry, here are some pictures from the salt mine in Krakow. The first two are from the grand chapel, which is completely carved in salt – even the chandeliers!

The following pictures show the delicious 4-course meal we were served at the end of our tour of the mine, some 125 m. below the surface. I was very impressed by this dinner, since my previous experiences from Polish food has been quite tasteless (boiled meat and the like). This was quite delicate and spicy, yet at least partly traditional.

I will be teaching a course in writing proficiency for a group of international business students this semester. They will take another course focused on business English where they