ATTENTION FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS The 2009 SCOLA Conference will be held Thursday, April 30th and Friday, May 1st with a full schedule of conference presentations by renowned language teaching experts from both the USG and educational sectors. Over the course of this conference attendees will also have an opportunity to interact with these experts and receive "hands-on" tutorials for all the SCOLA language training resources. SCOLA as the leading provider of actual foreign video programming, representing 110 countries and 95 languages, cordially invites you to attend this conference to learn about SCOLA, to share your expertise with others and to enjoy our internationally acclaimed hospitality. Please join us for this informative, productive and enjoyable forum for foreign language professionals. Check-in and registration for the SCOLA conference will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday in the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel at 16th and Dodge Streets in Downtown, Omaha with lunch served in the adjacent dining room beginning at 11:00 a.m. Presentations will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Executive Meeting Center on the 19th floor of the hotel and the day's activities will conclude with dinner and an evening of amusement park fun at the one of a kind Thunder Alley in Omaha, Nebraska. Friday will begin with a bus ride to the SCOLA campus in Iowa for more presentations, an on-going continental breakfast, tours of the SCOLA facility and hands-on tutorial sessions for all the SCOLA services (World TV Online, Insta-Class, "On the Street Videos," Digital Archive, etc.) presented by the SCOLA Staff. The conference will conclude with lunch at the Riverside Grill on the banks of the Missouri (10 minutes from the Omaha airport) and will feature a Congressional presentation. A $100 conference registration fee provides lunch on both Thursday and Friday as well as the unwinding festivities on Thursday evening. SCOLA will see to any transportation needs to and from the airport and provide a wide variety of snacks and refreshments. SCOLA has reserved a block of rooms at a special conference rate at the Doubletree Hotel and other conference information (including early registration and travel information) is available at the conference link on the SCOLA web site at www.scola.org <http://www.scola.org/> or by contacting SCOLA at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] (ph.: 712+566-2202). The SCOLA Conference times are well suited for busy conference participants who can fly into Omaha on Thursday April 30th, attend the conference and fly out Friday May 1st with only a one-night stay in Omaha. Omaha's Eppley Airport provides turn around services for all the major airlines and direct flights from Reagan/National on Midwest Airlines are available. We look forward to seeing you here! emc copy f_thumb scola rg_thumb01 Executive Meeting Center Thunder Alley SCOLA Riverside Grille Leslie Parker Bryant Channel Market Manager SCOLA 21557 270th Street McClelland, IA 51548 USA WWW.SCOLA.ORG P: 712 566 2202 F: 712 566 2502 E: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************