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Title: JLTA of NEW ENGLAND
Body: From: "Kazuko Ozawa" / senseionline@yahoogroups.com> Dear Colleague, I would like to invite you to : The 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of New England (JLTA of NEW ENGLAND) Wellesley College, Massachusetts, June 12, & 13, 2004 The Conference this year is being hosted by Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Wellesley College is a beautiful college located in the suburbs of Boston-30 minutes by bus or train from downtown Boston. The topic of this year's conference is "Dynamic approaches to teaching Japanese " and we are fortunate to have as our special guest speaker MITSUKO HASE from Japan, a well known Performing Artist of Japanese Language. She will be performing on the first night and will give a seminar on the second day. Participants are welcome to submit presentation proposals. Presenters will be expected to discuss ways to improve the teaching of Japanese at both the pre-college and the college levels. Pre-college teachers are strongly encouraged to apply. Papers may be presented either in Japanese or English, and each presentation should be 20 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. An abstract to be submitted with the proposal should be no more than one page in English or Japanese. The deadline for the proposal is March 12, 2004. Abstracts may be submitted either by e-mail (kozawa@wellesley.edu) or by regular mail to Professor Carol Morley, Japanese Department, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. The conference will start at 12:30 Saturday June 12, 2004 and end at around 3:00 Sunday June 13, 2004. We do hope you will be able to join us. Yours Sincerely, Kazuko Ozawa Japanese Department Wellesley College
Source: Wellesley College
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Title: 2004 Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" 2004 Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html Each year NEH offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title. The application deadline is March 1, 2004. Eligibility Full-time teachers in American K-12 schools, whether public, private, or church-affiliated, are eligible to apply to seminars and institutes. All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a stipend of $2,800, $3,250, or $3,700 (depending on the length of the seminar or institute) to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses. How to Apply Please send or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed here. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address since directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than one project. The application deadline is March 1, 2004 (postmark). Information Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes as well as all requests for application materials to the appropriate director. General questions concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities' Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to 202-606-8463 or e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.
Source: NEH
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Title: Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study Grant Guidelines Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study Grant Guidelines http://www.blakemorefoundation.org/language.htm Application Deadline: Postmarked by January 15 Languages considered: Chinese Vietnamese Tibetan Japanese Indonesian Thai Korean Khmer Burmese Malaysian Consideration will be given to other East or Southeast Asian languages on an individual basis. Grants will not be made for the study of classical forms of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan or other languages not in current use in Asia which are studied primarily for academic purposes.
Source: Blakemore Freeman Fellowships
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Title: Foreign Language Cuts (and what parents should know)
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" Foreign Language Cuts http://www.connectingwithkids.com/tipsheet/2003/152_nov26/cuts.html
Source: www.connectingwithkids
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Title: Unsung Heroes Awards
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" "Funds for Inspirational K-12 Teachers" Application deadline: April 30, 2004. http://www.ing-usa.com/us/about/connect/education/unsung_heroes.html
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Title: The Year of Languages in the United States (2004-2005)
Body: From: Language Link Feature Article The Year of Languages in the United States http://www.cal.org/resources/langlink/dec03feature.html Under the leadership of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Year of Languages in the United States will be celebrated during the 2004-2005 school year. This event comes at a time when foreign language programs in our nation’s schools are in a tenuous situation.
Source: Center for Applied Linguistics/Language Link
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Title: Invitation to Shinnenkai (New Year's party)
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" Invitation to Shinnenkai (New Year's party) I am a occasional volunteer HelpDesk at this online conference center for educators. Everybody is welcome! SHINNENKAI: January 6-7th, 2004 SHINNENKAI is a Japanese tradition of getting together at the beginning of the year to renew our friendship/working relationship for the new year. Anybody who is interested is welcome. (Professional conduct is expected in TAPPED IN.) SHINNENKAI hopes to achieve the following goals. - Serve as introduction to senseiOnine and/or TAPPED IN. - If participants are interested, I can take a tour of TAPPED IN. - Help networking among the members/guests and provide feedback on senseiOnline and its online forum, Benkyoukai To be sure of your local time, please go to Timezone Converter at http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ and calculate from US Mountain time. When: Session 1: January 6th, 2004, Tuesday 10am MST (7am Hawaii, 9am PST, 11am CST, noon EST, 5pm London/GMT; January 7th Wednesday 2am Japan, 4am Sydney, 6am NZ) Session 2: January 6th, 2004, Tuesday, 4pm MST (1pm Hawaii, 3pm PST, 5pm CST, 6pm EST, 11pm London/GMT,; January 7th Wednesday 8am Japan, 10am Sydney, noon NZ) How long: One hour from the starting time indicated above What to talk about: Nothing is set in advance. Where: Instructions to log in as a guest and get to the After School Online Room: 1. Go to http://ti2.sri.com 2. Click the "Guest Login" Button on the TAPPED IN home page 3. Fill in your name (up to 6 letters) and click on "Log in as a Guest" 4. When loading is done, you will be in the Reception area. 5. To talk, type in the message in the window next to the word SAY. Then press the SEND button or the ENTER key 6. In order to get to After School Online room, you can click on After School Online in the Featured Passageways. You can view Introduction to the TI2 User Interface at http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/web/ui.jsp What is TAPPED IN? TAPPED IN is the online workplace of an international community of education professionals. Teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers engage in professional development programs and informal collaborative activities with colleagues. You can find out what TAPPED IN is about including the activities that educators can do at http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/web/about.jsp What is senseiOnline? Info at http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html If you have any questions, please feel free to write to Keiko Schneider at Hope to see you there!
Source: TAPPED IN
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Title: A Mountain Summit for Foreign Language Technology Professionals
Body: From: "Keiko Schneider" MID-ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AND SOUTHEAST ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY A Mountain Summit for Foreign Language Technology Professionals (Joint MAALLT and SEALLT meeting) March 19-20, 2004 University of the South Sewanee, TN http://www.clas.ufl.edu/llc/SEALL/conf04.html
Source: University of the South Sewanee, TN
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Title: Chaplin Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching
Body: From: "Mari Noda" Please encourage those who qualify to apply to CHAPLIN MEMORIAL AWARD for excellence in Japanese language teaching. Mari Noda The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award will again be conferred in 2004, administered through the Association for Asian Studies. In accordance with the wishes of the Chaplin family, each year a prize of $1000 will be awarded to either a current graduate student or a full-time instructor of Japanese for excellence in Japanese language teaching. A full-time instructor who has completed graduate study within the last 3 years in an area that directly involves Japanese language teaching is eligible. Possible academic fields of specialization are Japanese language pedagogy, linguistics, anthropology, or literature. Current graduate students must demonstrate their intention to enter the teaching field in a North American university. Professor Mari Noda of the Ohio State University serves as Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor David Howell of Princeton University serves as representative of the Northeast Asia Council of AAS for the committee, and Professor George Chaplin serves ex-officio. Individuals interested in applying‹and faculty members interested in nominating a student‹should write to Professor Mari Noda at The Ohio State University, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 204 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1229, or FAX (614)292-3225, or E-mail noda.1@osu.edu for application forms. Completed applications must be submitted by March 31st. The award will be announced in the AAS Newsletter. Persons interested in contributing to the award fund should send their contributions to: The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award, c/o AAS, 1021 Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Source: CHAPLIN MEMORIAL AWARD
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Title: NCES Education Statistics Quarterly Just Released
Body: From: The NCES Education Statistics Quarterly offers an accessible, convenient overview of all NCES products released in a given period. Each issue includes: short publications (those less than 15 pages in length) in their entirety, executive summaries of longer publications, descriptive paragraphs of other NCES products, as well as notices about training and funding opportunities. In addition, each issue includes a featured publication with invited commentary pieces, a note on a current topic from a staff member, and a message from NCES. To view this publication, please visit: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004608
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