Julie McDonough Dolmaya, PhD

Blogging about translation and localization

Teaching with Google: My perspective

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 28, 2010

In my last post in this series I discussed what my students thought of using Google Documents to collaborate on their group translation projects. Now that I’ve (finally) finished marking the assignments, I thought I’d write a little about what I thought of working with the application to revise and mark the projects.
First, the advantages:

Having [...]

Words in Transit

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 12, 2010

I spent some time thinking, recently, about internships opportunities for translation students. In a previous post, I discussed an article by Sébastien Stavrinidis outlining some of the challenges to arranging internships for students. I proposed a new type of internship where students would volunteer to translate texts for humanitarian organizations and professional translators would volunteer [...]