KoreaKast: Piloting the Teachers as Online Language Learners Project

It is a cliche that teaching something is the best way to learn. But it is a cliche for a reason: it's true!

KoreaKast pilots a Russian doll of a project on learning about learning and language and educational technology by using language and educational technology. This project is Teachers as Online Language Learners (TOLL), and it equips any language teacher to learn the survival phrases in a new language... in order to learn more about learning languages and using educational technologies.

With that mouthful out of the way, we can get down to the business of learning Korean.

The first step of TOLL is to create your own interactive phrasebook using the Survival Language Kit. Since my goal is to learn survival Korean, I have compiled a set of solid online resources for Korean Learning, which will help me compile my customized phrasebook.

The next step is to create a blog for reflecting on the language learning process. And here it is: KoreaKast, complete with one modest entry.

The third, and optional, step, is to enhance learning with Web 2.0-based activities.

All that, and I haven't even introduced myself. Perhaps I'll do that in the next entry. In Korean...