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Title: LangCred: Website Summarizes State Requirements for Language Teacher Certification
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From http://langcred.org/about-us/
U.S. K-12 world language teachers seeking credentials must satisfy several requirements. In 2014, researchers at CLASSRoad, a non-profit organization for educational technology and world language professional development, secured funding from STARTALK and the National Foreign Language Center to create a dynamic website displaying simplified state requirements for world language teacher certification. The LangCred team researched state requirements and procedures, then simplified the information and presented it in a searchable format on LangCred.org.
LangCred users can make an account, search, save and even compare credential routes. New in 2016 is the much-anticipated feature to search, save and compare teacher programs. Over 900 programs are featured on the site. Comprehensive lists of Basic Skills, English Language Proficiency, and transcript evaluation requirements are now available. Such resources are especially informative for those seeking a degree evaluation, or those assisting international students with foreign degrees. Teachers of the less commonly taught languages can participate and learn from peers on the LangCred community forum.
The LangCred website is available at http://langcred.org/
Source: LangCred
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Title: Rhode Island Bill to Promote Dual Language Education
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From http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180425/ri-bill-would-promote-dual-language-education?start=2
R.I bill would promote dual-language education
by Linda Borg
April 25, 2018
Two Providence legislators have proposed a bill to add a position at the Rhode Island Department of Education to coordinate and promote the creation of more dual-language programs in public schools.
...At Wednesday’s press conference at the State House, the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Frank Ciccone and Rep. Grace Diaz, both Providence Democrats, said that research has shown that students enrolled in dual-language programs are more successful academically than their peers and more likely to attend college.
Erin Papa, past president of the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association, said the bill sets aside $200,000, most of which would pay for a specialist at the education department to lead dual-language initiatives statewide. It would also provide a small amount of seed money to expand existing immersion programs.
Read the full article at http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180425/ri-bill-would-promote-dual-language-education
Source: Providence Journal
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Title: Online Course: Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change
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From https://www.edx.org/course/sign-language-structure-learning-change-georgetownx-slsx-401-01x
Here is a free upcoming course offered through edX by Ted Supalla of Georgetown University:
Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change
This course aims to integrate the history of ideas about American Sign Language (ASL) with research that has been done on the structure, learning, and historical change of ASL and other sign languages. Structure is crucial to languages. There are several layers of grammatical structure in all languages. We will learn about these and examine how sign languages are structured.
Learning is how children and adults acquire the ability to understand and use a sign language. Change takes place over time in all languages. Recent research on historical change in ASL and other sign languages has begun to reveal how sign languages come into existence and how they change as they are used over generations among deaf and hearing users. We will look at historical change in depth, especially the historical heritage of ASL.
This course is a four-week self-paced course. Lecture videos are delivered in ASL with English subtitles and voiceover. The course will introduce all of these students to the science of sign language research and, for fluent ASL signers, the history and structure of their own language. It will also expose students at the intermediate level to the fields of linguistics and the cognitive sciences.
For full details go to https://www.edx.org/course/sign-language-structure-learning-change-georgetownx-slsx-401-01x
Read an interview with the instructor at https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/languages-layers
Source: edX
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Title: Playlist of Music from the Arab World
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From https://mailchi.mp/qfi/arabic-k-12-bulletin-may-1-993189?e=feb2c9cab6
The "Philharmonie de Paris" is currently featuring an exposition on music from the Arab world (April 6-August 19, 2018). You can listen to the playlist they have created of music from around the Arab world to complement the exhibit, available here: https://play.soundsgood.co/playlist/al-musiqa?
Source: Qatar Foundation International
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Title: Webinar: Using Digital Resources to Integrate Asian Pacific American Experiences in the Classroom
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From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBfleABrMro
Join Smithsonian Affiliate museums and the Smithsonian Learning Lab team on May 22 to discover free digital resources and strategies to integrate Asian Pacific American history, culture, and the arts into your K-12 classroom. Presenters will highlight a set of Smithsonian Learning Lab collections that teachers can adapt and use to examine a breadth of topics, from the 1800's to the present and on both local and national scales, in ways that best suit their students’ needs.
Learn more here: https://youtu.be/UBfleABrMro
Source: Smithsonian Education
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Title: Current Conversations Video Features Jonathon Stalling Talking about Chinese
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From https://mailchi.mp/asiasociety/china-learning-initiatives-apr2018?e=c00fca3321
In the February 26 episode of "Current Conversations," a video series from the University of Oklahoma, Jonathon Stalling, a specialist on Chinese and American literature and language and curator of the Chinese literature in translation archive at OU — walks viewers through a new exhibit, titled "Poetics of Invention: Bridging Modern Languages with Ancient Technologies." Although on the surface a demonstration of how people learn English in China, he uncovers how we can explore a traditional Chinese worldview through its language and demonstrates how the linguistic technology built 1,000 years ago in China can be used today.
Watch the 30-minute video at https://youtu.be/qtSzVVybq_Q
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Japan Day @ Central Park
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From http://www.japandaynyc.org/
Celebrate Japan on May 13th in Central Park. Founded in 2007, Japan Day @ Central Park is an annual event designed by the Japanese community of New York to promote a deeper understanding of the Japanese culture and to say, “Thank you, New York!” The event kicks off with the rousing Japan Run, a 4-mile mini-marathon and Kids' Races, hosted by New York Road Runners. The event continues with the Japan Day Festival featuring wide range of Japanese traditional and family-friendly activities, free samplings of popular Japanese cuisine, and powerful stage performances throughout the day.
Learn more at http://www.japandaynyc.org/
Source: Japan Day @ Central Park
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Title: Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Japanese Americans during WWII
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Two weeks ago (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/24933) we described the Smithsonian Learning Lab, an interactive website for the discovery and creative use of the Smithsonian's digital collections and tools. Here is a collection of resources based around an interview with Grant Ichikawa, a U.S. Army veteran who enlisted after he was relocated to a Japanese American incarceration camp with his family in 1942. The unit is intended for students age 9 through 18.
Access the materials at https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/analyzing-an-oral-history-interview-grant-ichikawa/stkwwfxv0s2315bm#r?
Source: Smithsonian Learning Lab
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Title: LGBT Voices in Russia: Lena Klimova’s “Children-404” Today
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From http://jordanrussiacenter.org
Shaun Gabrielli describes the inception of, use of, crackdown on, and follow-up of Children-404, a forum for LTBT people in Russia. He writes, "The website is structured as a blog to which citizens of the Russian Federation can anonymously submit their stories. It is written entirely in English, making these stories accessible to people worldwide. In many of these stories, citizens, most of them teenagers, narrate their personal experiences with bullying and homophobia. For children living in a homophobic environment, the sense of community Children-404 provides is extremely important in reminding them that they are not alone, that others are living under similar circumstances. ...Although Children-404 was most active in the months immediately following its inception, it could still be a useful portal for LGBT+ adolescents wishing to read personal narratives by individuals in a similar position. There is no question that access to such a site can help users begin to feel comfortable with their own identities, not to mention less alone in an often intolerant environment."
Learn more about Children-404 and dissemination of LGBT voices following a crackdown on the forum at http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/it-gets-better-lena-klimovas-children-404-today/#.WusRltMvxPU
Source: NYU Jordan Center
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Title: Two Articles about Art in Armenia
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From https://www.smithsonianmag.com
Here are two English-language articles about art in Armenia from the Smithsonian.
First, Jackie Flanagan Pangelinan writes about two brothers who do traditional Armenian stone carving: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/armenian-stone-carving-spotlight-ghazaryan-brothers-180968868/
Second, second, Laura Kiniry writes about HAYP Pop-Up Gallery, an NGO that finds unused spaces to serve as galleries for contemporary art: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/astrophysical-observatories-abandoned-factories-art-pop-ups-are-taking-over-armenias-unusual-spaces-180968924/
Source: Smithsonian
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