Larry Davies <lbd who-is-at gol.com>

Larry Davies (lbd who-is-at gol.com)
Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:37:24 +0900

Hello, my name is Larry Davies. I am an American living in Japan. I've been
using the internet for research and language teaching for the past three
years, working toward become a "virtual" teacher, that is, one who teaches
entirely through the medium of the internet. My main concerns lately have
been figuring out how to apply Vygotsky's ZPD to students I can neither see
nor hear, and to figure out if it is at all possible to foster a sense of
community among people who have no physical contact with each other. I'm
also working toward applications of Constructivism in language teaching.
I'm now in my preliminary search for a good distance learning PHD program
in instructional technology, where I might be able to formalize some of the
research I am currently engaged in.