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…
September 9th, 2011: If You Build It, Will They Come?
The opening of the UCSF Library’s new Teaching and Learning Center (http://tlc.ucsf.edu) brought together a number of departments and services into one location: interprofessional smart classrooms, the Kanbar Center for clinical simulation and telemedicine, and the Technology Commons, which houses a large lab, a computer classroom, a number of multimedia workstations with specialized hardware and software, as well as support staff for both informational and…
Reminder to Vote – Deadline February 28th
Dear SWALLT Members, IALLT has asked regional group leaders to remind and encourage members to vote in the IALLT elections. After going over recent IALLT announcements and thoroughly researching the candidates, I would like to share some of my own reasons why voting is especially important this year. 1. There are six outstanding candidates including…
SWALLT/NWALLT 2010
SWALLT/NWALLT 2010 Conference: Sustainable Language Learning Technology Friday and Saturday, October 15–16, 2010 Reed College, Portland, Oregon The conference will begin at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 15 and formal presentations will conclude at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 16. Conference participants can check in and pick up materials beginning at 12:00 noon on Friday,…
SWALLT/NWALLT Conference in Portland, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010
The Southwest and Northwest Associations for Language Learning Technology will hold a joint regional group meeting October 15-16, 2010 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. We welcome proposals for individual or joint presentations, panels, workshops, and posters that showcase technology-enhanced language learning and teaching. Our theme is “Sustainable Language Learning Technology” and our focus will…
Modern Language Association Call for Papers
DIVISION ON THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE 2011 MLA SESSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS Session title: Foreign Language Cultural Literacy and Web 2.0 The 2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies details a multiplicity of technology trends that are already having an impact on foreign language teaching. These drivers of change in higher education include awareness of globalization,…