--- Forwarded Message from Rosina Neginsky <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:09:15 -0600 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Rosina Neginsky <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #4840 ACTFL Cinema SIG >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ I am very interested in joining you. Rosina Neginsky At 04:47 PM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote: >--- 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 > Dr. Rosina Neginsky Comparative Literature Department ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Technology Coordinator for Guided Individual Programs Web Technology Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: [log in to unmask] telephone: 217-2449059 fax: 217-3338524