NeMLA’s 47th Convention is happening this Thursday through Sunday in Hartford, CT. “The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. With more than 2,000 members, NeMLA…
Annotation and Screencasting to extend the reach of your classroom
In March, the CLS hosted a Brown Bag and workshop (see blog post here) where we discussed possibilities for creating online materials–annotated documents, instructional videos, and more–for language instructors to extend the reach of the classroom and open up class time for activities…
Brown Bag and Workshop: Developing Materials for Learning Outside the Classroom
Between today and Monday (3/3 and 3/7), the CLS is hosting a sequence of two events on online materials development, and invites all language instructors at Yale to participate. Please see the bottom of this post for more on how…
Testing resources, Panopto video pilot, and shared course experience at 1st Tech Talks
On Monday this week, the CLS hosted its first 10-minute Tech Talks of the year, welcoming three speakers for short presentations and discussion about technologies in use for second language teaching and learning. The talks began with CLS Language Testing…
Language Brown Bag: Inclusive Teaching in the Second Language Classroom
How do we as language instructors create an inclusive environment in our diverse classrooms? What aspects of cultural content or classroom dynamics challenge this effort? What support it? These were the questions that opened our recent brown bag discussion on…
Spring ’16 updates from CALICO president
For those of you who are interested in the activities of CALICO, the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, we’re re-posting a recent update message to members from the group’s president, Phil Hubbard. Happy 2016 CALICO members and friends! I thought I…