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