Presented by Trevor Shanklin
CAST, or the Computer Assisted Screening Tools, tests advanced level speaking proficiency in nine languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino (Tagalog), Arabic (Modern Standard), Iraqi Dialect, Persian (Farsi), and English as a Second Language.
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Facilitator: Evan Rubin
Online social media tools inherently mediate communication, community building, publishing, and sharing in a plethora of languages and medias, which makes social media well-suited for second language learning and instruction. Despite their inherent functionality and intended user friendliness, social media tools don’t come with a guide book for best classroom practices, teacher technology training, or proper integration into standards based language instruction. This is where principled, standards-driven intervention is needed.
From August 8th to 12th, 2011, the Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at San Diego State University will host its annual free week-long Social Media Workshop in a blended live and online format and continue the exploration and instruction of social media for the language classroom. The workshop will provide real classroom examples and hands-on practice, through a series of language educators demonstrating their classroom uses of social media, the language learning objectives, instruction on how to use the tool, and finally an activity that allowed participants to sign up and experiment with the new tool.
For more information or to view the agenda visit: larc.sdsu.edu/social-media-workshop
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Presented by Evan Rubin
Director of Instructional Design and Technology at the Language Acquisition Resource Center
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Presented by Ronnie Burt of Edublogs
This presentation explored how blogging can be used in the language classroom to enhance listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Through reflection and collaboration, students can interact with classmates and even native speakers around the world in a seamless and social environment.
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LARC Social Media Workshop 2010
During this session the presenters demonstrate how social media tools like PrimaryPad and Voicethread can be used to encourage World Language students to collaborate in the target language with others beyond the walls of their classroom. Collaboration may be within a school, within the United States or around the world.
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Presented at the LARC 2010 Social Media Workshop by Steven L. Thorne, Portland State University and University of Groningen
This presentation describes a broad range of new media technologies and cultural-linguistic practices and discusses their relevance to foreign language education. In particular, I outline uses of social media, remix semiotic practices, new media literacies, and multiplayer gaming as settings for second and foreign language (L2) use and development.
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