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The Company’s new network, Medium4Latino.com™,
has launched with four
channels; Mundo4TV.com™ http://www.mundo4tv.com
http://www.mundo4tv.com/> -- focusing on
Latin-American lifestyles and
travelogue features, Musica4TV.com™ http://www.musica4tv.com
<http://www.musica4tv.com/> -- chock
full of music videos, artist
interviews and concert footage, Cine4TV.com™
http://www.cine4tv.com
<http://www.cine4tv.com/> -- the network's
movie channel, featuring classic
full-length feature films, trailers for current
releases and behind the
scenes looks at Latino Films and MisMasCotasTV.com™
http://www.mismascotastv.com <http://www.mismascotastv.com/>
-- a
pet-focused variety show with everything from
health tips to recipes for pet
treats. With in the next few months, two
additional channels will be added
to Medium4Latino.com network-- LaCasaTV.com™
a channel centered on the
lifestyles of the rich and famous and VidaTV.com™
a Latino lifestyle focused
channel.
We at Medium4.com are very excited about
our service that delivers on the
Internet’s promise to make the free flow of information
and ideas around the
world a reality. Thanks in advance for checking
us out. Of course we would
be extremely interested in your feedback and
please feel free to pass this
e-mail along to students and colleagues who would
derive benefit from
watching our channels.
Sincerely,
Jeff Grossman
III. NCLRC Summer Institutes (from Oriana
Cadman)
The National Capital Language Resource Center
in Washington, DC is
pleased to be offering the following summer institutes
for foreign
language educators and administrators of all
levels, Kindergarten
through Post-Secondary:
Teaching Learning Strategies in the Foreign Language
Classroom, June
26-27, 2000
Implementing Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign
Language Classroom,
June 28-29, 2000
Teaching With Technology in the Foreign Language
Classroom, June 30-July
1, 2000
Conference descriptions are provided below. The
registration fee for
each institute is $125.00. All institutes will
take place at The George
Washington University in Washington, DC. For
more information and/or a
registration form, contact the NCLRC by phone
(202-739-0607) or E-mail
(nclrc@gwu.edu), or visit our Web site (www.cal.org/nclrc).
TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM
June 26-27, 2000
Presenters will introduce participants to a variety
of learning
strategies and demonstrate how to incorporate
strategies instruction
into a foreign language classroom. Participants
will engage in hands-on
activities to identify student strategies, practice
modeling strategies,
design and share strategies lessons for their
classroom, and integrate
language and culture by applying the Cognitive
Academic Language
Learning Approach (CALLA).
IMPLEMENTING PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT IN THE FOREIGN
LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
June 28-29, 2000
Presenters will provide a rationale for using
portfolio assessment, an
overview of reliability and validity for assessment
portfolios, and a
detailed model for designing an assessment portfolio.
Presenters will
also address issues of organization, time management,
and student
self-assessment. Participants will engage in
hands-on activities to
learn how to implement a foreign language portfolio
that links
instruction, assessment, and the National Standards.
Participants
receive the NCLRC's manual, "Portfolio Assessment
in the Foreign
Language Classroom."
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM
June 30-July 1, 2000
Presenters will provide foreign language educators
with a critical
framework in which to consider the use of technology
in language
learning. Presenters will also provide activities
designed to permit the
technology learner to enhance competence and
confidence in this
important domain. Participants will have opportunities
to explore and
evaluate a variety of technology-based materials
and programs, to design
and share Internet lessons, and to examine practices
and integration of
technology for various purposes, languages and
levels.
Following is a separate program - terms and conditions below:
WORKSHOP ON COHERENT LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Presented by Dr. Ronald P. Leow, Associate Professor/Director
Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown
University
June 1 - 2, 2000, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Intercultural Building (ICC), Georgetown University
This two-day workshop is designed for Language
Program Directors (LPDs),
Coordinators, and Supervisors of multi-section
foreign/ESL language
programs and even individual teachers who would
like to have a global
knowledge of language curriculum development
for their individual
courses. In this workshop we will
discuss the main components that
make up a language curriculum (namely, teacher
education, learners'
characteristics, objectives, classroom activities,
and assessment
tasks). A coherent language curriculum
clearly articulates the
different levels of language study, serves as
a satisfactory guideline
to what takes place in the classroom, and permits
constant evaluation of
its goals and objectives (Leow, 1995).
Coherent language curriculum
development will be viewed as both a process
and a product supported by
empirical findings from second language acquisition
research.
The maximum number of participants is 20 and the
registration fee is
$350 per participant.
For more information and/or a registration form
contact the NCLRC by
phone (202-739-0607) or E-mail (nclrc@gwu.edu),
or visit our Web site
(www.cal.org/nclrc).
IV. Director of Language Acquisition Job
Available (from Cynthia Rekdal)
Director of Language Acquisition: Aurora
Public Schools, Aurora,
Colorado. Plan, develop, coordinate and
support Language Acquisition
at all distict school sites preK-12. Required:
M.A. in C&I, ESL or
educational administration. Bilingual and
fluency in a second
language, preferably Spanish highly desirable.
Salary for 12 month position:
$60,894-$82,386. Deadline for application
april 21. Call: (303)
344-8060
Ext. 28037
V. TEACHER OF THE YEAR AND PRENTICE HALL
AND MCDOUGALL-LITTELL SCHOLARSHIPS.
These are still open. If the Prentice and
McDougall Scholarships remain unapplied for by April 30th, we may have
another look at the
criteria. See previous BOLES on the web
site http://www.users.uswest.net/~eledu/aatsp and find out how you can
nominate teachers
and students for these awards.
VI. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY: ANOTHER LOOK
As editor of BOLECTRONICO, I have asked Dr. Warren
Roby, Professor of French, who is WSU's former language lab director, to
address the serious issues facing both K-12 and
postsecondary educators with regard to teaching with technology, and the
concerns
he has about the directions WSU is taking.
He has taught French, Spanish, and culture courses relating to France and
Japan.
Professor Roby, a former WAFLT Historian, has
a number of concerns about the direction WSU is taking. He has opted
to leave his
tenured Associate Professorship to accept a promotion
in Arkansas. Like Margaret Salazar before him, he leaves the department
as a
scholar very unhappy with what he sees going
on around him on a number of levels, and will address that from the point
of view of
teaching with technology in a special BOLE article
to be published next month. Dr. Roby has expertise in linguistics
and pedagogy, and
has published widely on the subject. He
will address what Professor Frederick, in her comment, failed to address:
what are the
implications for reducing contact hours and replacing
them with electronic exercises. Clearly there is some advantage,
and some
disadvantage.
On another note, on reflection, I do owe an apology
to Barbara Couture, Dean of Libberal Arts at WSU. The information
I had on her
stance truly was second hand, and I should have
left her name out of it. Dr. Eloy González of WSU's Spanish
section, a man I consider
a friend and a mentor, said that while he agrees
with many of my concerns about the perils of over-reliance on technology
(particularly
that electronic writing is not tantamount to
composition), that Barbara Couture has been a friend of the truth at WSU,
and that he
respects her immensely. Accordingly, I
offer an apology to Barbara Couture. It is sincere and I hope that
she will accept it.
Please note that anyone with an opinion on the
subject of teaching with technology (or any other matter facing Spanish
and
Portuguese instructors) will be given a forum
on these pages. I thank my numerous friends at WSU for their comments
and support.
VII. Film Festival Outing.
I am in contact with the folks at Seattle International
Film Festival. The schedule will be finalized Friday or Monday, and
as soon as the
junta decides the film, I will advise you of
the date. We will meet for tapas at Dandy Porter's house first!
VIII. A little bit about Carol Froelich,
who will be Acting Secretary of this chapter in my absence.
Hello AATSP members,
I'm Carol Froelich, and I will be filling in
as secretary of our local AATSP group while Jay is studying in Spain.
Many of us have met at AATSP functions, so you
know me, but for those who do not, I will
introduce myself. I teach Spanish at Timberline
High School in Lacey,
Washington, where I have taught for the last
nine years. Before that, I
taught at Arlington High School for nine years.
During my career at
Arlington, I got involved in WAFLT and hosted
a Spring Regional
Conference there. That lead me to further
WAFLT participation, where I
served as recording secretary and president.
For any organization to
continue to thrive, we members must all share
the responsibilty of
leadership from time to time. It appears
it is my turn to serve AATSP,
and I am happy to get to work for a dynamic local
organization with a
great group of officers.
IX. Talk of the Nation: Elián.
I called in to Talk of the Nation on Saturday, expressing my personal opinions (I was not speaking for the chapter.)
This last weekend's events affected us all whether we celebrated Elián's reunion with his Dad or were frightened by
military action and the prospect of sending a little boy back to Cuba. Most callers gave the former opinion; I gave the
latter. I received a middle of the night call from my mother in Miami remembering that that was the way the Russian
NKVD (Secret Police predecessors to the KGB) came to take her father away. At age 9, she never saw him again.
She has had nightmares ever since. If you would like to write a piece about Elián and your personal feelings, I will
publish it in BOLE and will ask Nathalie to do the same in CLAMOR. I will be writing a piece that takes the view that
sending Elián back to Cuba is the wrong thing to do. I am also going to ask Cuban refugee members of this chapter to
do the same. An equal number of pro and con pieces will be published in BOLE in one EXTRA.
Saludos cordiales,
Jay
Thanks for taking the time to read BOLE.
Jay