From: Harold Hendricks <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: "Teaching Languages Online" Workshop from CLASSRoad Date: March 12, 2014 7:57:20 PM GMT+02:00 To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> CLASSRoad is offering "Teaching Languages Online," a 4-week online workshop for teachers of Arabic and other languages. This course was offered previously as CLASSRoad’s 2013 STARTALK summer teacher training program. If you missed it last summer, now is your chance to enroll in a unique program to develop effective online language teachers, implementing ACTFL standards and STARTALK principles. You will learn how to use connected teaching practices to deliver language instruction and assessment to anywhere/anytime learners in distance/blended contexts. Through this course, you will integrate 21st century skills, teacher effective for language learning (TELL) practices, collaborative work, digital badging, and other strategies to engage and prepare students. The course experience features video presentations by experts, online quizzes, “Facebook-style” discussion environment, collaborative work in Google Docs (Drive), Padlet, and Voicethread, blog posts regarding your progress and reflections, and badges you earn for participating, contributing, and demonstrating acquired skills. The course will run from March 29-April 26, and the registration cost for the first 25 participants is $99 by March 15. Enrollment capped at 40 participants. This course will better prepare you for CLASSRoad's upcoming 2014 summer STARTALK program. Successful participants receive a printable Certificate. CEUs (2 units) available for additional fee. To learn more and to enroll: http://bit.ly/MC57na Best regards, Mahbuba Hammad CLASSRoad ************************************************************************** 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<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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) **************************************************************************