Bonus episode 0 of Conversations about Language Teaching. SHOW NOTES: Our actual notes for planning this podcast episode & the podcast overall. 1. Deciding on a title for the show: Conversations about language teaching with Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs 2. Blurbs about us: - Diane came from being a language learner, then a language teacher, then PhD program in teacher education, then teacher education  - Both learned Chinese in China, living there for several years. Both have taught K-12 Chinese in schools in the United States. Both have been involved in language teacher training for ten years. - Diane: PhD in Language education, taught 10 years K-12 Chinese in the United States - Reed: PhD in Chinese linguistics and Language Development, currently teaching IB Mandarin to 9-12 students 3. The podcast purpose and scope: - New YouTube account, title of show - Post promo video to own YouTube channels - Post references to research, literature in show notes as links To talk through big and little ideas related to language teachingHow the field as a whole is talking about these issues, and our thoughts about that How those can be viewed in researchHow our own experience informs our thinking about them4. Final points Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show