Begin forwarded message: > From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> > Date: April 19, 2011 1:29:21 AM EDT > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Deadline approaching: Access to Language Education Award > Reply-To: Calico Members Announcement List <[log in to unmask]> > > We have just a few more days until the April 21st submission deadline > for the Eight Annual "Access to Language Education" Award, presented > to an outstanding language learning web site each year, by CALICO, > Lernu.net and the Esperantic Studies Foundation. The application > process is brief, and as non-bureaucratic as possible. If you have > an outstanding language web site, please consider nominating it (full > details are pasted below the list of previous winners). > > In any case, I recommend that you take a look at the wonderful > resources on the web sites of some of the previous winners. They > give you a hint as to the remarkable creativity and educational > technology skills of CALICO members. > > I look forward to hearing from you, > > Derek Roff > Language Learning Center > University of New Mexico > [log in to unmask] > > **********************************************************************= > **=3D > ******** > Previous winners of the Esperanto "Access to Language Education" = > Award > <https://www.calico.org/page.php?id=3D507> > > 2010 > EuroCatering Language Training <http://www.eurocatering.org/> > Jozef Colpaert, Frederik Cornillie, Margret Oberhofer > > > 2009 > Fran=E7ais interactif <http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/> > Karen Kelton, Carl Blyth, & Nancy Guilloteau > > 2008 > Arabic Without Walls <http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/aww/info.html> > Robert Blake & Kirk Belnap (Project Co-Directors); & Sonia Shiri > (Course Designer) > > 2007 > French Online > <http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/french> > Christopher Jones (Project Director & Coauthor); Marc Siskin > (Technical=20 > Lead); & Sophie Queuniet & Bonnie Youngs (coauthors) > > 2006 > Franel > <http://www.edumaticonline.com/learningmanager/%5Fcustom/Franel/index_= > flash.htm> > Piet Desmet & the Lingu@tic team > > Honorable mention: > Autonomous Technology-assisted Language Learning (The ATALL wikibook) = > > Gary Cziko <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ATALL> > > Bauhaus and Beyond: Influences on Chicago's Skyline > <http://chicago-architektour.mmlc.northwestern.edu/> > Franziska Lys, Denise Meuser, & Ingrid Zeller (Project Conception and = > > Development); Denise Meuser & Ingrid Zeller (Video Production); Mark=20 > Schaefer (Camera and Editing); Franziska Lys, Daniel Escuatia, & Adam = > > Bennett (Software Development) > > 2005 > German Resources on the Web > <http://www.aatg.org/teaching-resources/255-grow-german-resources-on-t= > he-web> > Jim Witte, Donna Van Handle, & Anne Green (American Association of > Teachers of German). > > 2004 > Spanish Grammar Exercises > <http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php> > Barbara Kuczun Nelson > > > **********************************************************************= > **=3D > ******** > > CALICO, Lernu.net and the Esperantic Studies Foundation are pleased = > to > announce the Eighth Annual "Access to Language Education" Award, for = > a > web site offering exceptional access to language learning resources. > The website chosen for the Award will be recognized at CALICO's = > Annual > Symposium Banquet, and presented the ALE Award certificate and a $250 > prize/honorarium. > > Sites created and/or maintained by current CALICO members are = > eligible > for the Access to Language Education award (ALE). Nominated sites = > will > be judged on the usefulness, the breadth and depth of available > resources in support of language learning, meeting some or all of the > following criteria. Sites must be open access (cost-free), or have = > an > open access section (which will be the section evaluated for the > Award). > > 1. Ease of access and range of accessibility: Web-based learning > resources accessible by individual language learners from varying > cultural, linguistic and geographic backgrounds. > > 2. Versatility of the resources: For learners of various ages > (adolescent, university student, and/or adult self-learner) and > educational goals (conversation, business, literature, preparation = > for > language competence certification, etc.). Resources addressing = > varied > learning styles and offering diverse types of learning activities and > tasks. > > 3. Breadth of the resources: Materials to help students to progress > from the beginning level of language learning to moderate levels of > language proficiency. Sites which aggregate and annotate language > learning resources available on other sites. Materials for learning > more than one language will be considered a plus. > > It is NOT necessary to meet all of these criteria. If you have > created > an outstanding language web site, please consider nominating it. > CALICO members may submit nominations for their own web sites, or > those > of other CALICO members (with their consent). > > Nominations should include: > > A) a brief paragraph describing the nature and purpose of the web > site, > B) contact information of the CALICO member who is the web site's > developer/maintainer (name, email address, and telephone number), > C) the URL of the web site, > D) A one-page (or less) discussion of how the site maximizes access = > to > language learning, referencing the criteria described above. > > Please be clear, concise, and DESCRIPTIVE in your brief descriptions. > > Deadline for nominations is April 21, 2011. The winner will be > announced during the Annual Symposium Banquet. Please send = > nomination > information directly to Derek Roff: [log in to unmask] > > > Derek Roff > Language Learning Center > Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 > University of New Mexico > Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 > 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 > Internet: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************