--- Forwarded Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:18:33 -0400 >From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Language Lab Unleashed!: On the air tonight (5/11) >To: [log in to unmask] >User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) Just a gentle reminder... Language Lab Unleashed! will broadcast this evening (May 11th) +/- 9:30 p.m. EST. Tonight we will be talking about the story of Drake University and the renovation of their language program. Our on air guests include Jan Marston and Clayton Mitchell of Drake and their colleague at the University of Texas-Arlington, Pete Smith Drake, as many of us remember, was in the news in 2001. On March 9, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Ed published the (rather) shocking headline "A University Plans to Promote Languages by Killing Its Language Department". A link to this article is available on our site, as is the April 13, 2001 response to that article from the President of Drake University, David Maxwell. The show will not dwell on the past... rather we would like to talk about how the teaching of languages has returned to Drake. Come and listen to some of the innovations that Drake is exploring via DULAP... both on campus as well as through distance learning. If you can't listen to it live, no worries. We will archive the audio and make a podcast ready for download very soon. Plan to listen and participate and have Skype? Plan to listen and participate but the Skype conference call is full (or you don't have Skype)? Just want to listen and "talk" in the chatroom? Please go to: http://www.languagelabunleashed.com/?page_id=19 to learn how.... We hope you can make it. Barbara -- Barbara Sawhill Director, Cooper International Learning Center Lecturer, Hispanic Studies Department Oberlin College Oberlin OH 44074 phone: 440-775-8595 fax: 440-775-6888 http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc President-elect, IALLT http://www.iallt.org "Data is -not- the plural of anecdote" *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************