From: Publicity Coordinators <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: CORRECTION: Register now for the April IALLT Webinar - Thursday, April 10 @ 3 pm EDT Date: April 3, 2014 12:29:32 PM CDT To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> CLARIFICATION: there was an error in the date of the original email. Please note the webinar is April 10, not March :). My apologies! On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Publicity Coordinators <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: REGISTER NOW: http://www.iallt.org/conferences/webinars Title: World Languages Meet: Recruitment, Advocacy and Skills Development Presenter: Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Time: 3 pm EDT * You must be a member of IALLT to register for the webinar. Description: When the Language Resource Center and Modern Language Studies were asked to develop a recruitment event for their foreign language programs, the LRC and the MLS faculty looked to develop something unique. While there were many models for World Language program recruitment, we wanted to develop something that was unique to the Kutztown campus and delivered the message that Kutztown University offered quality, standards-driven language programs. At the time, the faculty and the LRC Director were also working heavily on program assessment and they wanted the meet to reflect the innovative practices of the faculty and their focus on ACTFL skills development. In addition, they wanted this event to meet multiple goals: recruitment, language learning advocacy in the community and K-12 teacher professional development. Driven by the overwhelming success of their Spring 2013 pilot event, the LRC Advisory committee, chaired by Ms. Cobb-Zygadlo, hosted the 2014 World Languages Meet which they modeled loosely on regional Science Olympiad events. In this webinar, I will discuss some of the considerations in the design including skills development, language assessment, campus logistics, and materials development. I will show examples of some of our events, and discuss how these encourage attention to ACTFL standards in language education. Finally we will discuss media attention to the event and the impact of the event on language learning in the communities Kutztown University serves. Biography: Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo is the Director of the Language Resource Center at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She is the first director of the Center and has been with Kutztown University since 2009. She holds a Master of Arts in German from the University of Calgary, Canada and has been working in the field of Language Resource Center management since 2000. She is the current Social Media Coordinator for IALLT. Her research interests include gaming design, language assessment, curriculum design, computer-assisted language learning. ************************************************************************** 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]>) **************************************************************************