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From http://carla.umn.edu/technology/STARTALK/

This STARTALK program is for K-16 teachers of critical languages who want to teach their language online. Offered completely online, this 3-week, intensive course will give teacher participants the experience of being an online learner. Course content will focus on many different facets of a successful online language course, such as creating community, time management strategies for teachers and students, choosing appropriate technology tools for communicative-based activities, and developing a variety of online activity types. In addition to exploring these aspects of teaching online, participants will see these concepts in action in a model online language activities. By the end of the course, participants will have a portfolio of activities ready to be incorporated in an online course.

This program is open to teachers who:
•    teach K-16 critical language teachers (only Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu)
•    teach those languages in the United States.
•    are experienced classroom language teachers
•    teach using a student-centered, proficiency-based, communication-oriented methodology.

Teachers who have taught in, or attended, a previous STARTALK course on methodology or technology are especially encouraged to apply.

Course dates: June 13-July 3, 2016
Applications due: May 13, 2016

For full details go to http://carla.umn.edu/technology/STARTALK/