What Makes You Full?
The “What makes you full?” activity is invaluable for a group that will be working closely for a period of time. Past intern Robyn introduced it to Evan and Susanna,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Sharing Ideas
Blending WAYK and Tandem Language Learning
This post explores how blending Where Are Your Keys techniques into a tandem language learning model could support and improve learning. Due to the number of WAYK Techniques I will… Read more »
Bubble Policy: How Can Immersion Bubbles Help an Indigenous Language Community?
In my last blog, I wrote about the obstacles to maintaining an immersion bubble. In this blog, I ask how the immersion bubble, as a kind of “language policy”, can… Read more »
Bubble Policy: Why Do People Break or Keep Up Immersion?
The idea of creating an “immersion bubble” is probably nothing new in language learning. Nor is it new within the field of language revitalization in the 20th and 21st centuries;… Read more »
Linguistic Terminology Part 2
Read Myles’ first post about linguistic terminology here. Working in the field of linguistics over the last few years, I have noticed some divisions in terminology that I would like… Read more »
5 Group Immersion Activities
Before I arrived at the St. Paul Unangam Tunuu Summer Language Intensive, I wondered what we would do on a typical day. I knew that there would be no teacher… Read more »
Fairy Killing or Linguistics Terminology?
As part of the Summer Language Intensive we took part in an excellent training in archiving practices (see Rachel Sprouse and Talia London’s blogs for more info). During this training,… Read more »
Learning a Language While “Low on Spoons”
If you read many of the WAYK blog posts, you may notice that language learning is a dynamic process that includes dozens of learning techniques, process tools, and juggling short-term… Read more »
WAYK Terms & Linguistic Terms
In this post, I would like to explore some of the terminology used in WAYK versus that which is used in academic linguistics. This isn’t necessarily to put one up… Read more »
There Is No Why
Cedar Edwards has worked with WAYK at several summer revitalization programs. They work as a software engineer in New York City and spends most of their time pulling language from… Read more »
Sky’s Video Tips for Cellphone Cameras
When you’re language hunting, or even teaching, it helps to document those sessions in any way you can. With the ubiquity of smartphones it’s easier than ever to video record… Read more »
Pedagogy Rusticatio with WAYK
We are pleased to share a gorgeous new video by Sky Hopinka, WAYK team member and a truly stellar filmmaker. Sky’s film is about how classroom teachers can strengthen one… Read more »
Submit Your Stories!
This is Sky Hopinka here. Long time no see. Keeping on top of blog posts has been a challenge, and something that we’ve discussed at great length. So we’re going… Read more »
Meet Qwina West and the Bishop Paiute language class of Bishop California
In February I received a random email. Qwina said he watched the videos on you tube and vimeo and decided to take WAYK for a spin! He taped the first… Read more »
New website up!
Last week, WAYK intern David Edwards finished redesigning the new “Where Are Your Keys?” website and there are some great new features he’s set-up. Under About the Game, you can find… Read more »
Building a Video Curriculum for an Endangered Language
[vimeo=21673263] How do you apply WAYK techniques to building a video curriculum? As you know, WAYK is a design system for accelerating and improving the learning in any environment. So… Read more »
The Fluency Hunter’s Eye
Experiencing accelerated learning can be magnificent, meaningful, emotionally moving, exhilarating. And yet, the techniques and principles of accelerated learning are simple and concrete. Recently, I watched a video of speaker/author… Read more »
Language Hunting and Responsible Travel
From Lonely Planet’s website (maker of guidebooks, phrasebooks, and other media): ‘Responsible travel’ means assessing our impact on the environment and local cultures and economies – and acting to make… Read more »
WAYK with New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and English
Meet John Graham, a New Zealand player who has never met us in-person, but has learned WAYK through the on-line videos, podcasts, and blogs. Here you can see a short,… Read more »
Free Tutoring in WAYK Via Skype
An ongoing issue of trying to share WAYK over the internet, is the paradox of it being so easy to learn in person, yet so difficult via video, podcast, and… Read more »