There was a moment during yesterday evening's course when I was struck by how much teaching had changed since I started doing it in the early 80's. This realization came as students in a computer lab at BCIT were recording audio files. The students are members of a course called, Oral Fluency for Business and Technical Communication. All twenty-one students were speaking into their headsets. They were summarizing their English-learning experiences and stating what they hoped to get out of the 50-hour course.
At first watching them, apparently talking to themselves, seemed a little bizarre. Yet today, from any computer with Net access, we can access the files via a secure connection to the Institutes's network storage server. So, any analogy to old skool cassette tapes is entirely inappropriate.