From the Assistant Editor
Jörg Waltje · IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies · 2003
It only seems such a short while ago that I came to the United States foranexchangevisit,andthatihadtostartwritingmypapersonone of these little funny-looking Macintosh boxes.When I discovered thatthese machines can also be used to (veeerrrysloooowly) surf the web and to develop interactive programs for language learning I was hooked.Toto, I was not in Germany anymore...It was Marie Sheppard who gave me my first job as a Language Liaison for the Anderson Language and Technology Center at CU Boulder, and Brian Lewis who recruited me for some LIBRA authoringwhen he procured a grant and started paying me for what I loved to do anyway: tinker with computers.I owe both of them big thanks for setting me on a new career path, and I wish they were still around to read these lines.There are other people who helped along the way: Patty Schindler, Ashley Godeaux, Kuan-Yi Rose Chang, Nelson de Jesus and the Ohio5 gang, the people