Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Ashley's YouTube Channel
Here it is, for those of you who wanted to see the other student videos. Let me know if you want help setting up your own YouTube channel or creating videos with your students.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Jamie went to the VESA conference!
Well, a while ago. But here's her presentation about what she learned!
Extensive Reading
Here is Angela's presentation about her extensive reading project. Please also check out the link to the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Differences between the IELTS and TOEFL
Found this link online today, and I thought it might be helpful to keep handy when our students are asking us which test they should take. I've never seen the IELTS, and it would be nice to be able to tell my students something when they ask me if it's an easier test.
Call for Contributions: New Ways of Classroom Assessment
The bestselling book New Ways of Classroom Assessment is being revised for a second edition, and you can submit a contribution to the book. Anyone have any interesting assessment ideas? The deadline is January 15. Here's a link to the website.
Symposium on Second Language Writing
This annual conference held at Purdue sounds great. Each year, they discuss issues related to second language writing. They are accepting proposals now through May 1, 2012. Here's a link to the website. If you're planning to submit a proposal, or you'd like to collaborate on some research, let me know!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
NAFSA Advocacy Day
From the email:
Registration for NAFSA’s annual Advocacy Day, being held March 20-21, 2012, in Washington, D.C., is now open.
Advocacy Day provides you with an opportunity to develop a relationship with your members of Congress and their staff through sharing stories about real-life people who are affected by their decisions as well as valuable and timely information that illustrates the importance of international education in their state and district.
Registration information can be found on the Advocacy Day Web page. The deadline for early registration is Friday, February 10, 2012, and the general registration deadline is Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Registration will be limited to the first 125 participants. Don’t delay, register today!
There is a block of rooms available at the Doubletree Hotel for Advocacy Day. Reservations can be made by calling 202-232-7000. When making a reservation, participants should refer to the "NAF" room block to secure the discounted rate of $232/night. Reservations must be made on or before February 16th.
Please contact me if you have any questions about Advocacy Day.
Best,
Kari Lantos
Manager, Grassroots Outreach
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
Registration for NAFSA’s annual Advocacy Day, being held March 20-21, 2012, in Washington, D.C., is now open.
Advocacy Day provides you with an opportunity to develop a relationship with your members of Congress and their staff through sharing stories about real-life people who are affected by their decisions as well as valuable and timely information that illustrates the importance of international education in their state and district.
Registration information can be found on the Advocacy Day Web page. The deadline for early registration is Friday, February 10, 2012, and the general registration deadline is Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Registration will be limited to the first 125 participants. Don’t delay, register today!
There is a block of rooms available at the Doubletree Hotel for Advocacy Day. Reservations can be made by calling 202-232-7000. When making a reservation, participants should refer to the "NAF" room block to secure the discounted rate of $232/night. Reservations must be made on or before February 16th.
Please contact me if you have any questions about Advocacy Day.
Best,
Kari Lantos
Manager, Grassroots Outreach
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
NAFSA Region VIII Newsletter
If you're interested in submitting anything to the newsletter, please let me know. Here's the email forwarded from Laura:
Submit to the Region VIII Spring Newsletter
For the next issue of the Region VIII
newsletter, due out in January 2012, we would like to feature any news,
announcements, accolades, photos, educational fairs, events, activities,
networking or other opportunities that you would
like to share with the Region. We also encourage you to consider
submitting book or movie reviews, interviews, essays or other creative
pieces that relate to the field and would be of interest to the Region.
The submission deadline for the spring newsletter is:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19
As always, we welcome and are grateful for your input and ideas for this and the Region’s other communications.
Sincerely,
Jenny Quijano Sax
Region VIII Communications Coordinator
Ashley's conference presentation
I don't know if there will be an opportunity for me to share my presentation from the VSTE conference. I'm adding here a link to my presentation website, and as I get my notes together, I will add links to the many wonderful ideas and resources I learned about at the conference.
I know that we've had several other conference presenters this semester, so if you'd like to share your presentation with us, I'd be happy to help you set something up on the blog. I know with the end of the semester upon us and CDW next week, we're all going to be pressed for time. But, if you have a moment, please check out my website, and let me know if I can share what you learned from or presented at a conference you attended recently.
I know that we've had several other conference presenters this semester, so if you'd like to share your presentation with us, I'd be happy to help you set something up on the blog. I know with the end of the semester upon us and CDW next week, we're all going to be pressed for time. But, if you have a moment, please check out my website, and let me know if I can share what you learned from or presented at a conference you attended recently.
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