New Page Created for "Second Language Acquisition"

Today, Bill created a new Main Page entitled "Second Language Acquisition".  I wrote a message on the "Help Wanted (work to be done)" page as well as invited contributions by writing the following message on the Second Language Acquisition page:

"On June 26th, 2014 Bill was kind enough to create this Main Page for Second Language Acquisition as this academic discipline if very broad based and much of its history relates closely with the area of cognitive psychology.

My planned contribution (which can easily be adopted by others!)is to start organizing this page.  To kick start the page, I would like to see a brief introduction to SLA, followed by a list of key theorists and theories in the field.  The information presented on this page, can be easily linked to content already available in the "Theorists" and "Theories" pages which should aid in its development.

Thanks,

Tyler

I am hopeful that I will be able to generate some collaborative efforts from the class.
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Dr. William Hunter

After tonight's lecture, I decided to do, as planned, a little background research about Dr. William Hunt.  I found the following video which is hosted at:  http://www.education.uoit.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-william-hunter.php

I found out that his research areas include Leadership and change in higher education, online learning and social cohesion, teacher education, and technology and learning.  In the video, Bill talked about his current research which is focused on online communication as a way of enhancing community cohesion and about his interest in the ways telecommunications technologies can be used to bring people together across diverse religious, ethnic, and political boundaries.  He also talked about the "Dissolving Boundaries Project" (founded by Roger Austin) where teachers are working with children in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to improve the relationships of children in the north and south.  At the end of the video, Bill compared this work to other work being conducted in Newfoundland, Canada, the United States and in Europe.

I also found further information at the following links:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-hunter/30/9a3/a97
http://www.thestar.com/news/2007/03/12/teacher_colleges_face_glut.html

I also took some time to read his journal article he wrote with Roger Austin entitled "ICT Policy and Implementation in Education: cases in Canada, Northern Ireland and Ireland which is located in the European Journal of Education, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2013.

After researching more about Bill, I went to the "Bill Hunter" page on the class wiki to add/edit some content about our professor only to find that this page is locked.  I will ask Bill to unlock it so that I may make some improvements.  Hopefully, he's in agreement as this is one of my planned contributions!