May

12

Social networking for educators

May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’m doing a two-part learning lunch series for my staff on social networking. Many of my staff are, shall we say, experienced educators, and have not experienced social networking or even be able to describe it.  So during the first part we are looking at what is social networking, and next week is how is [...]

Nov

22

80+ Participants in Integrating Tech Workshop

November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Wow! Over 80 people chose to attend the Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice workshop. Thank goodness I had assistance from my University of Michigan Computer Science Engineering Freshmen son Bryan – he was invaluable providing help connecting to our secure network and just-in-time support. It was an exciting, fast-paced workshop exploring multiple authoring environments [...]

Nov

18

ACTFL 2009: Off to the house of the mouse

November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages national conference is at the Swan and Dolphin in Orlando. The program looks interesting and it is always invigorating to meet with fellow educators for discussion and networking.  I’ll be presenting two hands-on technology-focused workshops: Integrating Technology into Instructional Practice (6 hours) and Enter the Conversation: [...]

Oct

22

Michigan World Language Association Conference

October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Michigan World Language Association conference is starting tomorrow. The Holiday Inn South in Lansing is the location – it is centrally located, free parking, and easy to reach for many educators from the east and west sides of the state. Hope to see you there!

Aug

24

Starting the new school year with web2.0 in New Jersey

August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I just returned from New Jersey where I worked with 36 world language teachers for 4 days. We focused on enhancing world language teaching and learning with web-based technologies. We had a wiki that served as our starting point (see the Explore page), and then each participant had a workspace (see Participants page), and many [...]

Feb

15

NFLRC at Iowa State receives StarTalk Grant!

February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University received a StarTalk grant for a special professional development institute for Chinese teachers to take place during the summer of 2008, Mentoring and Leadership for K-12 Chinese Teachers.
In this 10-day summer institute, K-12 Chinese teachers will explore key concepts and principles related to [...]

Nov

7

Off to the ACTFL conference

November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Leaving next week for the ACTFL conference in San Antonio, Tx. The first part of the week I’ll be in Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) training, then I’ll be presenting a session and a workshop with my friend Cherice. Of course the presentations aren’t quite finished – I’ll try to remember and post the urls – [...]