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>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:34:27 -0700
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>From: "Dr. Wayne Stromberg" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Summer workshops in San Diego at LARC

The Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State
University  offers foreign language faculty and administrators a variety of
Summer Institutes that provide for professional development and the
improvement of language instruction. Beginning in July,  LARC will offer
three summer institutes focused on promoting language instruction for
K-College language educators.  SDSU credit will be offered for those who
wish it.

The workshops are described below.  Please direct inquiries to
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1.Digital Media Archive . . . . . . . July 9th - July 13th, 2001

2.Reading in a Digital Age . . . . . July 23rd - July 27th,  2001

3.Language Testing on the Web . . .July 30th - August 3rd, 2001

Registration Fees for Summer Institutes: $150.00
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2001


DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVING
Languages faculty need authentic, attractive language materials.  LARC's
DMA summer institute will show you where you can find the materials you
need, how to create your own materials, and how you can integrate them in
your lesson plans. Participants in this summer institute will learn how to
create their own authentic language materials from concept through
instructional design to flow-charting and multimedia component development.
Following some online editing and compression of digital media, each
participant will build their own interactive language web page with these
components. The creation of these digital media resources will also help
LARC achieve its goal of creating widespread national and international
access to shared language resources via the Internet through the
DMA.  Materials created may be used to enhance on-line web sites or
multimedia CD ROMs.

Participants will assist in the creation of digital media resource for
their languages. The goal is to create a sharable bank of materials for a
variety of languages, in particular, the less commonly taught languages
where access to media may be difficult. SDSU credits may be earned for
participation in this institute.


READING IN A DIGITAL AGE
It's likely that you have texts you would like to annotate and put on the
web for your students.  What educational technology should you choose?

LARC's Reading in a Digital Age summer institute will give you hands-on
training in authoring systems that are best suited for providing texts at
the levels of proficiency you want, with the digital annotations that you
want to include.  Web-based reading processes, electronic annotation of
authentic foreign language text, and research in student interaction and
responses to text are but a few of the topics of this summer institute. It
is geared to meet the needs of teachers and researchers alike, in commonly
and less commonly taught languages.

Participants will learn how to annotate texts with a new online authoring
template format applicable to both commonly and uncommonly taught
languages.  One goal of the workshop is to establish groups of
collaborators to create useful, pedagogically sound materials in a variety
of languages, which can be shareable via the Internet. Participants in this
weeklong workshop may choose to attend the previous week's seminar in order
to create and digitize the media they will use in their readings.  SDSU
credits may be earned for participation in this workshop.


LANGUAGE TESTING ON THE WEB.
LARC's Foreign Language Testing on the Web summer institute will give you
hands-on training in test creation tools which may be used to evaluate
language proficiency, will help you resolve difficulties with foreign
languages fonts, and will show you some of the more important factors to
consider in choosing a test authoring software package for the tests you
wish to create.

There are a number of currently available products which facilitate testing
on the web in foreign languages.  They range from very simple and free or
inexpensive systems to quite elaborate packages; many are specialized for
the purposes of the foreign language instructor.  Participants will review
some currently available products and choose one to best fit their testing
needs.  They will then write and develop, or begin, a test that uses a
variety of digital multimedia test items in the target language.

There will also be some discussion of tools of special interest for
creation of web pages in foreign languages.  SDSU credit is available for
this workshop.

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