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Title: Film Showing in New York City: Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision)
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From http://irishartscenter.org/film/aisling_gheal.html
Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision)
Tuesday, June 10 | 7 pm
Aisling Gheal (Bright Vision) follows the lives of the women sean-nós singers in the Muskerry Gaeltacht of West Cork in a journey to the heart of the tradition. Amongst the group of women is 10-year-old Shahira Apraku who attends the local Gaelscoil and embodies an entirely new generation of Irish speakers. Shahira’s journey, the struggles of the women, the songs of the Sean-nós and the flow of the Sullane river provide parallel intersecting narrative vehicles for this documentary, yielding insights into this part of our culture and challenging some of our key contemporary notions of “Irishness” in the process.
For ages 13 and up
After the film, join in an Irish traditional song circle.
Purchase tickets at http://irishartscenter.org/film/aisling_gheal.html
Source: Irish Arts Center
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Title: Upcoming Webinar: Tips for Starting, Sustaining, and Growing German Programs
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From http://www.justaddgerman.org/webinars
The Goethe-Institut has commissioned this webinar series to support the growth of German language departments across the US.
The webinars in the “Boost Your German Program” series present general advocacy strategies and introduce Goethe-Institut promotional materials; they also focus on specific components of advocacy work, such as creating elevator pitches or devising strategies to reach specific target audiences.
The five webinars in the Guest Speaker series each feature a different presenter and a different advocacy-related topic: participate in just one or all five!
The fourth webinar is this coming Saturday, June 7th: Helping Administrators Listen: Tips for Starting, Sustaining and Growing German Programs.
Description: The presentation will help you understand the administrator's perspective and challenges in establishing or retaining a school's German program. The presenter will share the best approaches and arguments that are tailored specifically towards school administrators and that most effectively convey the value of offering German alongside other languages. Followed by Q&A.
For full details, to watch the three webinars that have already taken place, and to register for this fourth one, go to http://www.justaddgerman.org/webinars
Source: Just Add German
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Title: Virtual Rome
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From http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/Virtual-Rome.aspx
Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics has developed an ambitious digital model of the entire ancient city of Rome.
Drawing on his research and teaching interests in the history and architecture of the ancient city, and digital modeling expertise, the model shows the city as it appeared c. AD 315. It contains thousands of buildings, including reconstructions of all the major monuments (such as the Colosseum, bath houses, temple, Palatine hill, Forum, markets, and imperial fora) and the many square miles of ordinary housing, tombs, and commercial buildings. The model aims to give a view of the entire city, with all the buildings in their proper contexts.
Learn more about the project at http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/Virtual-Rome.aspx, and read an article about it at http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/05/virtual-rome
Source: University of Reading
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Title: Blog Post: Keeping it Together at the End of the Year in the Latin Classroom
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From http://caneweb.org
Latin teacher Emily Lewis writes,
Around this time of year, I start hearing a lot of “Ugh, the kids are just so DONE! They are lazy and don’t want to learn.”
While this is not always true, often we teachers keep getting told to “do something meaningful” with the students and “keep them engaged” as the year wraps up. So how does one accomplish this with students who are tired and sick of being tested?
Read on to see some ideas for projects, review work, and games: http://caneweb.org/new/?p=1388
Source: CANE
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Title: Portland Art Museum Tour in French
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On Sunday, June 22, 2-3pm, the Alliance is partnering with the Portland Art Museum to organize a tour of the world-class Tuileries exhibit (http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/special/tuileriesgarden/home). The tour will be given in easy-to-understand French by Karen Alexander, who is a bilingual docent of the art museum and a longtime Alliance member. Standard ticket fee to the French-language tour is $17 and includes the option to also attend a follow-on tour in English (a nice feature for students of French). Go to https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e9cj44bxd41ab01f&oseq=&c=&ch= to register; space will be limited. This tour is open to Alliance members and non-members; adults only; all reservations for this private group tour must be made through the Alliance's online form.
Quoi de neuf: Tuileries Tour at PAM, Faux Pas (Cont.) and More. (25 May 2014).
Source: Alliance Française de Portland
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Title: Cuba Educational Exchange - Summer 2015
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From http://www.ictfl.org/content/2014/05/join-ictfls-cuba-educational-exchange-summer-2015
Cuba has recently opened its doors to educational cultural exchanges and the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is excited to offer you the opportunity to learn about Cuba firsthand. The tour includes several cultural visits and exchanges with Cuban artists, musicians, educators and students, scientists, speleologists, medical professionals and government leaders. While of special interest to our Spanish teachers, this tour is also of general interest due to the closed nature of the destination.
For more details go to http://www.ictfl.org/content/2014/05/join-ictfls-cuba-educational-exchange-summer-2015
Source: ICTFL
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Title: Free Spanish Story Time at Barnes & Noble
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=54666
Barnes & Noble, the USA’s largest book retailer and distributor of educational and digital media products, announced yesterday that this June will feature a Spanish-language Storytime program in selected stores nationwide.
The events are designed to celebrate literacy and language learning, in a way that entire families can appreciate – including games and activities that appeal to younger children.
Learn more at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=54666
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Size Comparison Game for Young Spanish Learners
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Here is a description for an activity in which young Spanish learners compare the size of two different objects drawn on playing cards: http://spanishplayground.net/printable-spanish-game-kids-batalla-tamanos
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Spanish Teaching Resources on eSpanish
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eSpanish is a website where Spanish teacher Glenn Smith of London has posted teaching resources as well as ideas about language teaching and learning. It is available at http://www.espanish.org.uk
Source: eSpanish
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Title: Lesson Plan about Outer Space for Young English Learners
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From http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/space-sun-moon-stars-planets?
This lesson plan uses a number of online and downloadable resources from the LearnEnglish Kids website. In this lesson, children play a game using vocabulary about space, sing a song about travelling to the sun, listen and read a story about a fictional planet, and design their own story with support from a structured template, and then write about it.
Access the lesson plan at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/space-sun-moon-stars-planets?
Source: British Council
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