--- Forwarded Message from "Dr. Wayne Stromberg" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:34:27 -0700 >To: [log in to unmask] >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 [log in to unmask] 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.