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| Title | Online German from the University of Pennsylvania |
| Body | CALICO’s CALL Discussion List The University of Pennsylvania is launching its online language series by offering an intensive elementary German course starting July 6th. This six-week summer course will meet online with the instructor on MTWT EST from 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm. This course is designed for the beginning student with no previous knowledge of German. As the first course in the first-year series, it will focus on the development of language competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. By the end of the semester, students will be able to talk and write about themselves, family and friends and develop reading and listening strategies for simple magazine articles, short literary texts, and film clips. The synchronous part of the course, the online classroom, will be conducted using Adobe connect and will provide students with conversational practice of the forms and themes learned with the customized materials from the course management site in Blackboard and from the assignments in "Deutsch Interaktiv" von der Deutschen Welle. Both the synchronous and asynchronous activities (homework) will preface the production phase in which students will post information about themselves in a social network, respond to questions using Wimba voiceboards, write about topics related to the course in blogs, and converse in oral and written online chats. For more information about the course, interested students can go to: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/summer/GRMN101981 Registered students with previous knowledge of German are required to take a placement test, which will be administered online on Tuesday, June 29th. All students will be required to participate in a short orientation to the technology before the start of the course. Orientations will begin Monday, June 28th. Dixon, E. online German from the University of Pennsylvania. CALICO’s CALL Discussion List (CALICO-L@LISTSERV.CALICO.ORG, 8 Jun 2010). |
| Source | CALICO’s CALL Discussion List |
| Inputdate | 2010-06-20 12:29:43 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2010-06-20 12:29:43 |
| Expdate | 2010-10-28 00:00:00 |
| Publishdate | 2010-06-21 00:00:00 |
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