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Title: Workshop: Good Writing in Japanese
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From https://jsis.washington.edu/japan/good-writing-workshop/
Good writing とは何か：評価を通して考える
February 24, 2018
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
What is good writing? Performance tests (whether speaking or writing) do not have a definite grading system. Even so, we often have to rate learners’ writing. In order to do that, we need rating scales.
Rating scales differ depending on the purpose of writing, or on the genres and rhetorical modes of writing. Even so, if you know a versatile rating scale for academic writing (essays), you can utilize this for diverse contexts just by adjusting it slightly.
In the workshop, we will assess comparison and contrast and opinion essays with a multiple-trait scoring scale, reconsidering what might be considered good writing in Japanese. Through the workshop you will have an opportunity to share views on good writing with colleagues, and compare and contrast perspectives with that of other attendees. Keeping our various perspectives in mind, it is sometimes necessary to find a common metric when it comes to grading. For this purpose, I will present a new scoring system using flowcharts.
For full details go to https://jsis.washington.edu/japan/good-writing-workshop/
Source: University of Washington
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Title: Workshop: New Perspectives and Teaching Resources on the Crusades
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From https://ccas.georgetown.edu/2018/01/03/new-perspectives-and-teaching-resources-on-the-crusades/
New Perspectives and Teaching Resources on the Crusades
January 20, 2018
Georgetown University
A workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and Unity Productions Foundation. The workshop will feature the new documentary film The Sultan and the Saint, to be aired on PBS stations December 26, 2017.
The Crusades began with Urban II’s call at Claremont in 1096, and continued for the next two centuries. Seen as a wider movement to spread Christianity, the Crusading period included the reach of Christian powers from the Iberian Peninsula to end seven centuries of Muslim rule, and their efforts to conquer the New World in the west and to reach the Indies in the east. The imagery of the Crusade indelibly marked relations between Europeans and Muslims, and still lingers today. The film The Sultan and the Saint explores a little-known encounter during the Fifth Crusade in Egypt, in which St. Francis, a humble monk, visited the court of Ayyubid Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in an effort to bridge between the opposing forces.
This workshop for educators is an opportunity to acquire the film for the classroom, hear from the filmmakers and scholars involved in its production, and explore the set of curriculum resources created for its companion website.
For full details and to register, go to https://ccas.georgetown.edu/2018/01/03/new-perspectives-and-teaching-resources-on-the-crusades/
Source: Georgetown University
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Title: Podcast: Multilingualism and Hip Hop in South Africa
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From https://hiphopafrican.com
Listen to South African hip hop scholar and sociolinguist Quentin Williams talk about multilingualism and hip hop in South Africa in this new podcast: https://hiphopafrican.com/2018/01/01/hhap-episode-18-quentin-williams-on-multilingualism-hip-hop-in-south-africa/
Source: Hip Hop African
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Title: 2018-2019 Teachers of Critical Languages Program
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The Teachers of Critical Languages Program, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, is designed to increase the study and acquisition of important world languages in U.S. schools. This program enables primary and secondary schools to strengthen their teaching of Mandarin and Arabic by bringing Chinese, Egyptian, and Moroccan teachers to the U.S. to teach their native languages and culture for an academic year. The exchange teachers receive on-going methodological observation and training opportunities, live and work in an immersive English environment, and receive a certificate of participation following their exchange.
Application deadline: January 22, 2018
Learn more about this program at http://tclprogram.org/
Source: Teachers of Critical Languages Program
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Title: Article: Whatever Happened to the Samurai?
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Here is an English-language article about the disappearance of samurai after the Meiji Restoration in Japan: https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-the-samurai/
Here is another English language article about the history of woman warriors in Japan: https://www.thoughtco.com/images-of-samurai-women-195469
Source: JSTOR Daily
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Title: Twelve Ways to Independently Answer Questions about Japanese
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Here at CASLS we believe in learning autonomy, and we're sure that teachers are tired of endlessly being asked how to say things in the target language, serving as an on-demand human look-up resource. Teach your students to be independent learners. Japanese teachers can start with this recent article from Tofugu listing different ways that independent Japanese learners can find answers to their language questions: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/answering-japanese-learning-questions/
Source: Tofugu
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Title: Italian Heritage Night at the LA Clippers
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LA Clippers present Italian Heritage Night: Monday, January 22, 2018 vs Minnesota Timberwolves at 7:30PM. For more details go to http://www.nba.com/clippers/italianheritagenight?camefrom=single_game_tixl
Source: LA Clippers
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Title: National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
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From http://www.actr.org/national-post-secondary-russian-essay-contest-npsrec.html
Students taking Russian in accredited colleges and universities are invited to participate in the eighteenth annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
Registration for the 19th annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest will open on January 8th, 2018 and will run through January 29th.
Teachers whose students are participating in the contest will receive student codes, directions and the essay topic on 31 January. Students will write their essays on 1-15 February at a time selected by the teacher at each institution. Students should not receive the essay topic until the time scheduled to write the essay. Judges will review the essays in March and winners will be announced in mid-April.
For full details go to http://www.actr.org/national-post-secondary-russian-essay-contest-npsrec.html
Source: ACTR
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Title: Exhibition on German Jazz in Washington, DC
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From https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/wsh/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21108788
Very few music genres have been – and continue to be – formed through such a turbulent history as that of jazz. Deeply rooted in the Afro-American blues- and ragtime scene of New Orleans, jazz transformed and redefined itself in the 1920s, spreading like musical wildfire worldwide as a messenger of a new esthetic. It quickly gained a foothold in Germany, where it became the soundtrack for the Roaring Twenties Berlin.
The exhibition German Jazz (Deutscher Jazz) showcases this unique genre in its most important stages, from its beginnings to the current post-millennial scene. Via short introductions and more detailed texts, the exhibition tells of clubs and festivals, music labels, and the role of radio, and introduces important figures and stylistic tendencies. Photographs from public and private collections alongside numerous audio examples round off the exhibition, providing exciting insights into the German jazz scene.
The exhibition is taking place through January 26, 2018, at the Goethe-Institut Washington. For full details go to https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/wsh/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21108788
Source: Goethe-Institut
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Title: Online Public Classics Archive
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From http://opca.paideiainstitute.org/about
The Online Public Classics Archive is a public media Classics database that archives and organizes the public media engagement with antiquity on the Internet. You can search the large database, or see what the latest posts are (learn about Theophrastus or ponder what Plat would think about TV) by going to http://opca.paideiainstitute.org/articles
Source: Paideia Institute
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