Well, I wanna talk about my expirience with Baltimore Project in this semester. I´ve been at CELE for 3 semesters, and this is the firts time that I had the chance to practice in a useful way ll the things I´ve learn. I think the oportunity that we had is unique, because it helps to face a real situation about languaje, and face that is not too easy like in class.
I beleive that it would help alot students if this kind of activities were part of all the courses, because in all levels we have a lot of  new things  to learn, maybe in diferent ways. The technology give us that chance, so, why we shouldn´t use it? Having a contact with a native speaker, we have the chance to learn a real aplication of everything  that we learn, so we don´t saty static whith teory.
About the Speakup, I think it´s an interesting tool, because we have the chance to learn with topics that are part of our lifes, one way or another, so it´s easy to connect grammar with specific situations (in my case, I do that, and it works :]). In the other hand, have contact with differente  accents is great, because maybe we could get use just to american or to britihs, so the variation is good to "educate" our listening :)
I think is important to try different kind of learnig, so we can choose the most useful for us, so we can improve our learning, speaking, listening, writhing and, comprehension