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Title: Earn a Badge for Reviewing Open Educational Resources
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From http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/reviewers-needed/
Almost a year ago, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning launched the Language OER Network (http://community.coerll.utexas.edu/), a website that features teachers, students, and staff who are using, creating, and promoting OER. Featured educators receive a badge and are listed on the website under different categories of work: OER Teacher, OER Creator, OER Reviewer, and OER Ambassador. The lists of featured people are growing in every category except one: OER Reviewer.
Reviews help add legitimacy to materials posted online, where anyone with an Internet connection can publish something. A review can:
Help teachers sift through a mountain of content to find what is high quality
Provide useful feedback to content authors
Offer a forum for teachers to express gratitude to their colleagues for sharing their work
Ideally, encourage teachers to talk to each other about ideas for teaching and to participate in a community.
COERLL will award you a digital badge for reviewing materials in public fora, such as MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm), OER Commons, or blogs. More details are available here: http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/reviewers-needed/
Source: COERLL
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Title: 2019 UW-Madison East Asian Language Pedagogy Workshop
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From https://eastasia.wisc.edu/2019-language-pedagogy-workshop/
2019 UW-Madison East Asian Language Pedagogy Workshop
Assessment, Articulation, and Accountability
April 6
The Center for East Asian Studies (a federally-funded Title VI National Resource Center), the Korean Flagship Program, and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pleased to co-host a workshop for K-16 instructors of East Asian languages in Wisconsin and beyond.
Speakers include Paul Sandrock, Cynthia Ning, Yo Azama, and Sahie Kang.
Early registration ends March 10. Late registration ends March 31.
For full details, visit the workshop website at https://eastasia.wisc.edu/2019-language-pedagogy-workshop/
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Title: Language Scholarships and Grants
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Are you looking for ways to improve your own language proficiency? The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has a list of different grants and scholarships for language study, available here: https://www.actfl.org/assessment-professional-development/scholarships-and-grants
Source: ACTFL
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Title: 2019 Indiana University Summer Language Workshop: Applications Open, Financial Aid Available
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The Language Workshop at Indiana University is taking enrollments for its intensive courses in Summer 2019!
Join the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region for accelerated, intensive, effective language training in the Central Asian languages of Azerbaijani 1, Kyrgyz 1, Mongolian 1, Pashto 1 (online), Persian 1, Sorani Kurdish 1 & 2, Turkish 1 & 2, Turkmen 1, or Uzbek 3. Earn university credit and enjoy small classes led by professional instructors. Go beyond the classroom with authentic materials, individualized projects, culture-based tasks, movies, and more in 160 hours of instruction and more than 20 hours of co-curricular activities. Prepare for success with language-oriented career mentoring, academic advising, and research sessions.
Learn more about the Language Workshop at https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/index.html
The application form is available at https://hls.indiana.edu/machform/view.php?id=20007
Funding information is available at https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/funding/index.html
Here is a link to documents for each language offered at the Language Workshop, to disseminate to those who may be interested: https://iu.box.com/s/n2cr89x8xgqcevn6oq2f303cmf11b5mb
For more information, contact the Language Workshop here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/contact/index.html
Source: CeLCAR
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Title: "Sara's Century" Podcast Explores Jewish and Russian History
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From the SEELANGS listserv:
Announcing “Sara’s Century,” a new podcast produced at Rutgers University-Camden that chronicles the life of a Jewish woman in the Soviet Union Now available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and at http://sarascentury.blogs.rutgers.edu/.
About the podcast: The twelve 30-minute episodes are based on interviews Laurie Bernstein, who recently retired from Rutgers’ Department of History, recorded with Sara Mebel (b. 1919) in 2002. They include narration and explanations of the historical context of Sara’s life, much of it using her own words translated by Laurie and voiced by Julia Zavadsky of the Department of Fine Arts at Rutgers-Camden. Robert Emmons, Jr., a documentary filmmaker in Fine Arts, produced the finished episodes, which were released in 2018. About Sara: Sara Mebel, who currently lives in a Philadelphia nursing home, will soon turn 100 years old. Her story is somewhat of a short course in Soviet history, bridging her birth in Gomel just a few days after a pogrom in March 1919 and her emigration to the United States on, of all days, September 11, 2001. Sara endured the loss of her father to Stalin's purges, near-starvation during World War II, and other hardships that were part and parcel of the experience of urbanized, educated Jews in Moscow. She survived all these things, but Boris Yeltsin's economic "shock therapy" and the free-for-all of popular antisemitism in the USSR of 1990s, when she was already in her late 70s, were Sara's last straw. Upon her arrival in the United States, she moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she lived with Laurie and her husband Bob Weinberg, whose mother was Sara’s cousin, for nearly two-and-one-half years. “Sara’s Century” will be of interest to both scholars and students of Russian, Jewish, and women's history, as well as to non-specialists. The website includes photos of Sara Mebel and her family, letters, family trees, and transcripts of the episodes.
Lindenmeyr, A. [SEELANGS] New Podcast Available. SEELANGS listserv (SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, 20 Jan 2019).
Source: SEELANGS
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Title: Germany Celebrates 100 Years of the Bauhaus Movement
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The Bauhaus movement, which links functionality, craftsmanship, and art, began in 1919. Here are a few resources for learning more:
Five upcoming events to celebrate Bauhaus: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-events-watch-germany-celebrates-100-years-bauhaus-180971261/
An event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York: "Bauhaus 100: Women Photographers at the Bauhaus" on February 6: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4942
An English-language article about the lasting impact of the Bauhaus movement: https://www.thelocal.de/20190117/bauhaus-how-the-revolutionary-school-designed-the-world-as-we-know-it
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Title: 2019 Annual German Essay Contest
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The German Embassy is sponsoring the 2019 annual essay contest. This year's theme is Wunderbar Together. The contest is open to students from Grades 3 – 12 and the deadline for entries is March 31, 2019. The exact topic varies according to grade level.
View the full contest rules at http://germanyinusa.com/essay-contest/
Source: Germany in USA
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Title: Unit on Mexican Current Events: El Gasolinazo
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From https://comprehensibleclassroom.com
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has shut down many of the petroleum pipelines in Mexico to address theft that costs an estimated $3000 million per year, leading to widespread gas shortages. A group of teachers had assembled a teaching unit and supporting resources around this series of events.
An overview of the unit is available here: https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/2019/01/13/gasolinazo-whats-happening-in-mexico/
More materials are available from free on Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/News-summaries-for-Spanish-students-FREE-Ojo-con-Mexico-Gasolinazo-edition-4305931
AnnMarie Chase has a video from a friend in Guanajuato to complement these materials: https://senorachase.com/2019/01/16/el-gasolinazo-a-follow-up-video/
Source: The Comprehensible Classroom
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Title: Science Experiment for Young Spanish Learners: Sink or Float?
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From https://www.spanishplayground.net
Here's a great hands-on experiment for young Spanish learners: does it sink, or does it float? Read a description of the activity along with possible modifications and access worksheets and a helpful video at https://www.spanishplayground.net/sink-float-spanish/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Health: More than Diet
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From http://www.creativelanguageclass.com
Do you teach a unit on health? Megan Smith reminds us that health is about so much more than nutrition. Consider talking about sleep, stress, and technology use. Her short post includes some Spanish authentic resources that you can use.
Read the blog post at http://www.creativelanguageclass.com/health-unit-resources/
Source: Creative Language Class
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