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Title: New Features in Flipgrid
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From https://www.freetech4teachers.com
We've highlighted many teachers' posts about using Flipgrid, a video sharing platform, in their language classes. In this recent post, Richard Byrne summarizes recently added features to Flipgrid: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/08/great-new-features-added-to-flipgrid.html
Source: Free Technology for Teachers
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Title: Video about Phatic Expressions
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Tom Scott, Gretchen McCulloch, and Molly Ruhl have a new 4-minute video introducing phatic expressions, phrases where the pragmatic information conveyed is more important than the semantic information, available at https://youtu.be/eGnH0KAXhCw
Source: YouTube
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Title: Classroom Management at the Beginning of the Year
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AnneMarie Chase reminds us that hard work at the beginning of the year building relationships and establishing routines will save our and our students' time and frustration throughout the year. Her blog post is especially helpful for new teachers, but it's a positive reminder for veterans as well: https://senorachase.com/2019/08/05/classroom-management-why-the-start-of-the-year-is-so-important/
Source: Señora Chase
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Title: Using Thinking Routines to Deepen Comprehension
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From https://passion4theprofession.com
Your InterCom editor is excited about the use of thinking routines to boost students' metacognitive skills. In this blog post, Leslie Grahn provides a background on what thinking routines are, and then she suggests how they can be incorporated in language classes to deepen learners' comprehension: https://passion4theprofession.com/2019/07/09/deepening-students-comprehension-of-authentic-resources-thinking-routines/
Source: passion4theprofession
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Title: Listening Game: Foto Frenzy
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AnneMarie Chase shares this activity, inspired by several other teachers' activities, in which everyone finds an image on his/her device, and then follows instructions such as, "If your image has an animal in it, stand up."
Read a full activity description at https://senorachase.com/2019/07/22/foto-frenzy-a-picture-talk-game/
Source: Señora Chase
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Title: Back to School Resources from Maris Hawkins
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Source: Maris Hawkins
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Title: New Cohorts of International Students at CASLS
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We are thrilled to welcome several student groups to Eugene this summer and fall. We first welcome Kobe students who will be doing a two-week astronomy program. This is our second year with Kobe, and we partner with the Astronomy department on campus. Students will be spending the first week learning about astronomy and language and visiting CAMCOR, the Eugene science museum. For the second week, students will be able to visit the Pine Mountain Observatory and use the telescopes to do night sky viewing. Seventeen students from Tamagawa Gakuen in Japan and one Korean studentss will be attending the Oregon Experience Program (https://oep.uoregon.edu/) prior to fall term. At the same time, we will be welcome our new cohort of student interns for the Oregon International Internship Program (OIIP). Ten student interns from China and Taiwan will be starting their education practicum journey in local K-5 classrooms for five months. We are glad to see local teachers being very supportive to the program and to the students. “Students are excited to come to the States, and CASLS is very happy to welcome them and provide them all the supports they need,” says Li-Hsien Yang, East Asia Program Director.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: A Farewell from Your InterCom Editor
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It has been my pleasure to be your InterCom editor for the last thirteen years. I inherited this position from Sarah Burtner, and I've had some excellent assistant editors over the years, including Renée Petit, Patricia Roldan Marcos, and Leila Tamini-Lichaei. Most importantly, I've had the pleasure of watching our subscriber numbers grow to over 3300. This is my last issue of InterCom, but of course InterCom will continue to arrive in your inbox every Monday morning thanks to other staff here at CASLS. I hope that you continue to enjoy your subscription. Best, Lindsay Marean.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Attractor Sites and Attentional Bias
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By Christopher Daradics, CASLS Language Technician
Attractor states are situations that increase the likelihood of a particular event coming to pass. The term has come to linguistic discourse by way of complexity and systems science. As an example of the concept in action, if I want to have more energy I can commit to juicing and running three days a week. This attention to my health becomes an attractor state for me actually feeling better and having more energy.
Another example of an attractor state would be that as educators we know how essential it is to simplify complex processes and concepts into more manageable, standardized pieces for developing minds. So, we work to reduce the strain and complexity inherent in the language learning process by drawing students’ attention through a coherent knowledge constructing process. We can call the process we draw them through an attractor state for language learning (and also probably for institutional progress).
Our institutions are attractor states for efficient instruction, measurable outcomes, and systematic oversight. This is because our system is designed to increase efficiency, improve favorable metrics, and enhance oversight. And, the sheer number of students worldwide who have successfully participated in conventional language instruction are a testimony to this paradigm’s productivity as an efficient, powerful, and predictable attractor state for language learning.
One place where the institutional paradigm has a harder time generating attractor states, however, has to do with language learning beyond the walls and scope of a given class or program of study (i.e. language in the wild). Institutions are often oriented to their own way of processing information. Students with alternative experiences can have a difficult time providing evidence of the skills they’ve acquired.
As language educators, a common motivation we share is the desire to serve as a bridge to the world beyond the walls of our classroom and our course. Our work as language educators can be an attractor state for our students’ language proficiency and ability to negotiate in an increasingly complex world, in the spaces between stable, institutional regularities.
In this week’s Activity of the Week students work with the concept of “attractor states” and explore how this notion can help them increase participation in in-the-wild language learning contexts.
Source: CASLS Topic of the Week
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Title: Attractor States
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Attractor states and detractor states are concepts most of our students already understand intuitively, but probably don’t have words for. This week’s Activity of the Week introduces students to these concepts and encourages them to practice using them.
Source: CASLS Activity of the Week
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