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October 12th, 2012: Language Assessment Workflows in Language Labs
Language Assessment Workflows in Language Labs: Roundtable Discussion Judi Franz, UC Irvine Harold Hendricks, BYU Joseph Kautz, Stanford University Gus Leonard, CSU Monterey Bay 12pm – 1pm Pacific UPDATE: the recording of this session is now available.
SWALLT Minutes: October 2012
SWALLT Minutes: September 2012
March 9th, 2012: Unveiling the New Stanford Digital Language Lab
Please join us for a collaborative webinar about the new Stanford Digital Language Lab to open Summer 2014. Beth McCullough, Senior Learning Spaces Manager, will join us to describe her design approach to the new Academic Computing Services Facility where the Digital Language Lab will be located. We will unveil the latest architectural drawings of…
Digital Storytelling Resources
Felix Kronenberg has posted his digital storytelling resource links! Enjoy!
January 13th, 2012: Customizing Streaming Video Playback
Last year at IALLT 2011, BYU introduced a system for customizable playback of streaming video. Since then, they have worked to improve the player functionality and implemented the technology within the Spanish curriculum. A team of developers have created a “video text” base on the Colombian telenovella Yo soy Betty, la fea that was piloted…
Registration Open for SWALLT 2012 at ASU!
Theme: Language Learning Centers and Internationalization: Supporting Global Connections, March 23-24, 2012, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ Internationalization and globalization have become nearly ubiquitous goals across education over the last several years. Universities, community colleges and other institutions are emphasizing connections with the broader world, establishing campuses and programs across the globe, and welcoming international partners…
December 9th, 2011: Digital Storytelling as Participatory Language Learning
Felix Kronenberg will present a recent grant-funded digital storytelling initiative. His presentation will cover various aspects of digital storytelling in the L2 curriculum, such as identity and identities formation, automaticity, motivation, individualization and individual learner differences, agency, multimodality, learner anxiety and “losing face,” narrative structure, and assessment. Digital Storytelling as Participatory Language Learning Felix Kronenberg, Assistant…
November 10th, 2011: Sharing is Caring
Over the past few years, the Oberlin CILC has developed quite a few in-house tools to make our lives easier. Some of these tools tackle problems that are common enough to merit sharing, and we have begun making the source code for these applications freely available. In this presentation, you’ll find out about a few of our…