--- Forwarded Message from Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:40:03 -0700 >From: Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: ACTFL Cinema SIG >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] >Cc: [log in to unmask] >Importance: Normal ------------------ A group of us met with Karen Breiner-Sanders at ACTFL on using movies for language learning. We decided that the next step was to organize a SIG for cinema. She has taken the ball and run with it. Any other takers out there who would like to join with us Mike Michael Bush Associate Professor of French and Instructional Psychology and Technology http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/ -----Original Message----- From: Karen E Breiner-Sanders [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 12:51 AM To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: PROPOSALS FOR CINEMA SIG Dear Friends, We got our Cinema Sig by the skin of our teeth. And our announcement appeared in the ACTFL Newsletter. ACTFL agreed to allow us to form a SIG, even though only 26 of you who signed up are ACTFL members. Since the magic no. is 30, I'm beating the bushes to have a few extra sign on, and it's working. I'm writing for another reason. ACTFL gave us three sessions for the ACTFL meeting in Dallas, Nov. 1999: a business session, a standard presentation session (maximum of three presenters) and a poster session. For those of you who don't know what a poster session is (I didn't!), let me explain. Perhaps 3 or 5 or 15 people are all offering some kind of presentation at the same time. They mount some key components on poster boards or display boards (for our uses, the display could be on boards on as clips on a videoplayer), and as people come walking by, the presenter explains his or her research or the pedagogical use or how it fits into an instructional design, or how one goes about acquiring all these films, or an interesting web site connected with film, or the organization of a syllabus on film, etc. In order for the Cinema Sig to keep its three sessions at ACTFL- Dallas, there have to be ACTFL members who want to be a part of the Cinema Sig (get your ACTFL friends to send me their name and state their desire to belong to this new SIG) and who want to present at our sessions. Get to me your proposals as quickly as possible. It only needs to be Your name and address, and the fact that you are a member of ACTFL (or you will join), the title of your presentation, and one or two paragraphs explaining/describing what you plan to do. Identify if you want it to be a regular presentation session or a poster session. The proposal doesn't have to be formal, not even all that well thought out. I need to be able to identify presenters and "poster people" to ACTFL by Feb. 15th. Otherwise, we lose our session. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, send me your proposals <[log in to unmask]> TODAY....DON'T DELAY....DO IT TODAY!. See you in the movies......, Karen :-) _______________________________ Karen E. Breiner-Sanders, Spanish & Hispanic Studies School of Foreign Service / Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC 20057 Tel. 202-687-6126 FAX: 202-687-1431 * Director, The Spanish School, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT