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Title: Hot Potoatoes
Body: From: "Fahey, John K." News Item: Hot Pototoes has a new version that claims to support Japanese through Unicode. It appears to be free for educational use. John Fahey El Paso ****************************************************************************************************************************** Dear Hot Potatoes user, After two years in development, version 6 of Hot Potatoes for Windows has been released. There are many new features, including these: -Full support for Unicode (so you can create exercises in Japanese, Russian, phonetic characters, etc.) -No frames! -Timers on exercises -Mixing of short-answer and multiple-choice questions in one quiz -Question-weighting and percentage correct settings for answers See for a complete list of new features. You can download Hot Potatoes from here: We are still working on a Java version of Hot Potatoes for Mac OSX, and hope to be releasing early beta versions soon. If you no longer wish to receive emails about Hot Potatoes, please reply to this message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Best regards, The Hot Potatoes Team
Source: The Hot Potatoes Team
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Title: TPRS Listserve
Body: From: FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Here's a listserv for those of you intested in sharing TPRS skills. It is called "moretprs" and can be found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moretprs/
Source: FLTEACH
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Title: Spanish Immersion Program for Teachers
Body: From: moretprs@yahoogroups.com Listeros: I wanted to tell you about a unique immersion program for teachers (really for anyone who would like to improve his/her Spanish.) See the info below, and if you'd like more information, please e-mail Richard Muirhead, Director of International Studies. muirhear@mtmary.edu muirhear@yahoo.com LOCATION: Arequipa, Perú (Universidad Católica de Sta Maria) DATES: May 24 - July 16 (4 to 8 week programs available) COST: $2500 - $4200 (depending on length of stay and number and type of credits taken.) INCLUDES: = transportation, housing, food, and tours = home stays with families = visits to: Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, other Inca ruins, museums, mt. villages, etc. = various workshops (TPRS w/ C. Gaab; Developing Thematic curriculum w/Helena Curtain; Peruvian culture, current issues, archaeology, etc. w/Richard Muirhead = tuition: 4 to 6 credits, graduate or undergrad. Carol Gaab
Source: Universidad Católica de Sta Maria, Peru
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Title: URLs for the federally designated National Resource Centers
Body: From: senseionline@yahoogroups.com Here is URL for the federally designated National Resource Centers: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/NRC_LRC.htm
Source: www.uwm.edu
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Title: Colorado Japanese Language Education Association Online Teaching Materials Database
Body: From: "jfujimot" sensei gata, Colorado Japanese Language Education Association Online Teaching Materials Database has been updated. We got several submittions from the outside of Colorado. The following materials are newly added to our database. Please check them! 1. Emi Ochiai Ahn (Mesa Community College, AZ) -Jeopardy Game (PPT* 12.4MB) -Jeopardy Game Instruction (WORD 1.5MB) -“ú–{Œê‚Ń^ƒCƒv‚µ‚悤!iWORD 45KBj 2. Kaoru Ochiai (The University of Mississippi, MS) -‚©‚½‚©‚È‚¦‚¢‚²iLOANWORDj -WORLD FACT QUIZ 3. Makoto Ogino lŒ`‚Å‹³‚¦‚é“ú–{Œê 4. Kaoru Slotsve (Kelly Walsh/Natrona County High Schools, Casper College, WY) -WebQuest: Kamishibai Project -Culture Jeopardy 5. Ryoko Yoshida Keaton (LangTech International, CO) -Elementary Level Online Workbook 6. Junko Fujimoto (University of Denver, CO) -‚Ђ炪‚ȁ•ƒJƒ^ƒJƒi Concentration Game -Sound-hiragana Matching Game Sincerely, Junko Fujimoto Japanese Instructor http://www.du.edu/~jfujimot/ University of Denver
Source: Junko Fujimoto
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Title: TPRS Storytelling website
Body: From: moretprs@yahoogroups.com> Here is the tprsstorytelling website: www.tprstorytelling.com If you'd like to download some free samples, click on materials and catalogue and then follow the link to the sample materials. There are also samples from Cuentame and Cuentame Mas, and we will soon have samples from the elementary Hi Kids! program as well as sample French texts.
Source: moretprs
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Title: Linguistic Minority Research Institute
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" May 7-8, 2004 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute LMRI 17th Annual Conference Beverly Leaney, beverly@lmri.ucsb.edu, 805.893.2250 Call for Papers Deadline: March 1, 2004 Family Literacy and English Learners The 2004 UC LMRI Annual Conference will focus on Family Literacy and English learners. With the growth of state and federal accountability, including the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, the need to improve the academic achievement of English learners has never been greater. One strategy for improving the reading development of English learners is to promote family literacy activities, such as the frequency and quality of shared storytelling and reading books. Keynote Speakers: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Ph.D. -- UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences Author of several studies (Harvard Educational Review, Reading Research Quarterly) on the role of immigrant children as translators and interpreters for their families. Concha Delgado-Gaitan, Ph.D. -- UC Davis, Emeritus Author, Involving Latino Parents in the Schools (forthcoming, Corwin Press) and Literacy for Empowerment: The role of parents in children's education (New York Falmer Press; 1990) This year's conference hopes to address such topics as: - What family literacy activities promote early literacy among English learners? - How can family literacy activities best compliment the literacy activities in school? - What is the impact of early literacy on academic achievement among English learners? - What interventions are most effective in developing literacy activities in the families of English learners? - What can schools and teachers do to facilitate the development of family literacy programs?
Source: University of California, Santa Barbara,
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Title: California Indian Education 27th Annual Conference
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" To: Subject: California Indian Education 27th Annual Conference Date: Saturday, January 17, 2004 2:40 PM April 22-24, 2004 Westin LAX Hotel, Los Angeles CA California Indian Education 27th Annual Conference California Department of Education Paula Agostini, 916.319.0851
Source: California Department of Education
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Title: Inquiry: SNS curricular models
Body: From: "sm167" DO NOT USE "REPLY" TO RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE!! Contact the originator, Professor Cruz, directly at David_Cruz@baruch.cuny.edu Colleagues...a public school district on Long Island (NY) is currently considering the creation of a Spanish for Heritage Speakers sequence at the middle and high school levels. I've offered to help in finding curriculum models currently being followed elsewhere in the country. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you. David Cruz de Jess, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Spanish/ Director of Spanish Language Instruction Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Baruch College/CUNY, Box B6-280 55 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010 Tel: (646) 312-4238 Fax: (646) 312-4211
Source: David Cruz de Jess, Ph.D.
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Title: 2004 Teaching SNS Conference
Body: From: "sm167" Inquiries about this conference, including requests for the call for papers and information about submission of paper abstracts, should be directly sent to Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza at pmacgreg@nmsu.edu. Attached is the call for papers for the 10th anniversary Conference on Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers to be held July 16, 17, and 18 2004 in Las Cruces, NM. Deadline for submissions is February 13. Our Keynote speaker this year will be Denise Chavez, celebrated Chicana author and 2003 recipient of a Hispanic Heritage Award. Our plenary address will be given by Dr. Kim Potowski, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Director of Spanish and French Teacher Education, Director of the Spanish for Native Speakers courses and Coordinator for the Heritage Language Teacher Corps at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hope to see you all in Las Cruces, Patricia Dr. Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Linguistics Component Head Spanish Component Head New Mexico State University Department of Languages and Linguistics Box 30001, MSC 3L Las Cruces, NM 88003 Phone 505-646-1430 Fax 505-646-7876
Source: New Mexico State University
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