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Wiki-based Projects in the Foreign Language Classroom: Integrating Culture, Language and Technology
Monday, April 21, 1:30-2:30 PM, Cobb 210

We will kick off CSL workshop series Spring 08 with Liamar Duran Almarza, assistant coordinator and lecturer in Spanish language department. She has been using the Wiki provided through the Chalk in her class so that students share their researched materials with each other and use them in oral presentations. Based on her innovative way of using the tool, Ms. Almarza will introduce different ways to integrate Web 2.0 tools into foreign language class as a means of bringing cultural components to the class and providing students with an opportunity to learn collaboratively while further developing their receptive and productive skills in the target language.

Conference Report and Panel Discussion
Monday, May 5, 1:30 PM, Cobb 210.

Veronica Vegna (Italian), Meng Li (Chinese) and Lidwina van den Hout (Spanish) attended  a national conference sponsored by the Consortium  for Language Teaching and Learning at Brown University early this month. The main topic discussed at the conference was Reassessing the Foreign  Language Curriculum in the Age of Globalization, which responded to the recent MLA (Modern Language Association) report, "Foreign Language and Higher Education". This report raised several issues: among them are the need of transforming academic programs in order to help students acquire translingual and transcultural competence, and the importance of changing the two-tiered system in Higher Education. Vegna, Li and van den Hout are very enthusiastic about sharing the information discussed at the conference, and will run a panel discussion at CSL for all of us.

CSL Tech Workshop Series: Video Production
Session I: Thursday, May 1, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210
Session II: Thursday, May 8, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210
Session III: Thursday, May 15, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210

If you plan to produce videos this summer or would like to learn basic aspects of video production, please join this workshop. Participants will learn not only how to use a video camera but also how to frame better video images and record better sound in various cases. In the first session, Kay Yang will also introduce two video-related applications presented in the CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) conference this March, which might give you some useful information about how to use video in your class. (Registration will be required for this workshop. Please contact Kay at kyang@uchicago.edu if you like to participate. If you are interested but the time doesn't work for you, please also contact Kay. )

Make Your Own DVD
Wednesday, May 21, 1:30-2:30 PM, Cobb 210

Nadine Di Vito has been actively creating DVDs from digital videos recorded overseas as well as on campus for the past couple of years, and will show you how to make an edited DVD. This will be an informative session and recommended for instructors who would like to create DVD videos and/or attendees for the Video Workshop this quarter.