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>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:55:25 -0700
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>From: "Dr. Wayne Stromberg" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Summer workshops for language instructors in San Diego

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This summer, San Diego State University$E2s Language Acquisition Resource 
Center, a National Language Resource Center, will offer three five-day 
workshops for foreign language instructors at all levels, in creating and 
archiving digital media, in online reading, and in online testing.

To register: go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu and click on $E3Special Events$E4; 
scroll down the page to $E3Register for 2002 Summer Institutes Online.$E4

DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVE.TM@TM@ July 15-July 19, 2002

LARC's Digital Media Archive summer institute is designed for language 
teachers.  Enrollees will be shown how to find multimedia materials they 
need, how to integrate them in lesson plans, and will get an intensive 
course of instruction in creating audio and video materials for language 
instruction. 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.


MULTIMEDIA LITERACY AND WEB-BASED READINGTM@TM@ July 22-July 26, 2002

LARC's Multimedia Literacy and Web-based Reading summer institute will 
teach you specific authoring systems that are best suited for the task of 
reading certain texts at certain levels of proficiency 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.


FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTING ON THE WEBTM@TM@ July 29-August 2, 2002

LARC's Topics in Foreign Language Testing on the Web summer institute will 
survey around forty authoring tools which may be used to create online 
tests to determine competencies in reading, writing, listening and speaking 
in foreign languages.  Items reviewed will include a gamut of test 
development tools and systems, from those which are quite easy to use (and 
inexpensive or free)  and best suited for drills and quizzes, to fully 
developed and supported comprehensive testing systems suitable for 
gathering data for program evaluation, certification, and a host of other 
special purposes.  There will be hands-on experience with several of the 
test authoring tools.  Workshop participants will select one to match their 
testing needs, and will write and develop a test that uses a variety of 
digital multimedia test items in the target language.