Raised and educated in Canada (PhD @UofT), now a U.S. resident, yet my roots and soul are in Italy. Linguist and polyglot, I teach Italian at Montclair State using tools that expand learning beyond the classroom. I’m a geek at heart (the first to introduce Twitter to teaching foreign languages), and continuously experiment with smartphones, tablets, social networks and the potential of the Internet to improve teaching and learning. Creative, eclectic, pragmatic in all aspects of life, I enjoy walking barefoot along the shore from the Adriatic to the Atlantic and then running in heels through the Tri-State.