Hacking Hot Potatoes: The Cookbook

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[http://www.glenys-hanson.info|Glenys Hanson], an avid HotPotatoes user and a good friend of mine, I can proudly say, has recently been interviewed on [https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/grassroots-language-technology-glenys-hanson-exl-exos-info/|EFL Notes] sharing her experiences and mentioning my HotPotatoes Tutorials and add-ons site. Here I re-blog the interview.

!! Grassroots language technology: Glenys Hanson, esl-exos.info

"Grassroots entrepreneurship" was listed as one of four characteristics that ELTJam says(1) one can use to understand the current so called ed-tech movement and/or revolution. The others being money, disruption, polarisation/controversy.

Amongst the examples they gave of such entrepreneurship initiatives was Marie Goodwin(2), a teacher who wanted a platform to help kids with reading(3). The grassroots language technology series is trying to show that many teachers are doing similar, probably much smaller and mostly non-commercial, projects.

Our next person in the series is Glenys Hanson, @GlenysHanson, who I first met on an online pronunciation course. Many thanks to Glenys for sharing her experiences.

**1. Can you share a bit about your background?**

**Glenys**: I’m from Wales but I’ve been living in France for nearly 50 years. I was an English as a foreign language teacher at the Centre de linguistique applique, Universite de Franche-Comte…

[https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/grassroots-language-technology-glenys-hanson-exl-exos-info|Read the original post]

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