Polyglot Press
Messages for the World Language Teacher
August 17, 2011
The Polyglot Press aims to inform the UCPS World Language teachers and keep them abreast of valuable links, news, professional developments, accomplishment, etc. This information is housed on www.polyglotpress.blogspot.com Feel free to access it there in the future. You can also add comments. No personal news or names will be included in the blog version.
BRAVO!
· Blogtime! The Polyglot Press is moving to a new format. This year, resources of use to world language teachers in UCPS will continue to be emailed. Instead of merely posting back editions online in Moodle’s Second Language Teachers’ Resources, the emailed material will also be posted on a blog. This will permit any of you to comment. Feel free to add ideas, discoveries, questions, links, workshops, photos, video clips, materials you have found, etc. The new blog is found at http://polyglotpress.blogspot.com/ If you have never used www.blogspot.com it is free, fast and very easy. You can even upload blog entries from your SmartPhone. Note – The BRAVO section with teacher names and accomplishments, births, illnesses, etc. will not be posted in the Polyglot Press blog.
DPI
· IIS Regional Focus Groups a Success - The four Instructional Improvement System focus groups NCDPI conducted in conjunction with the Center for Educational Leadership and Technology (CELT) during the first week of August were a success. With stops in Raleigh, Hampstead, Asheville, and Charlotte, the IIS team shared the vision and gathered feedback from around 300 local educators, representing the following groups:
· Classroom teachers· NCVPS teachers· Testing coordinators· Instructional technology coordinators· Professional development leads· Guidance counselors· Human resources staff· Principals/assistant principals· Higher Ed representatives
The team received insights on local needs and wants as well as concerns as they relate to the IIS. Numerous educators volunteered to participate in future webinars, to provide feedback on the guidance documents, and potentially to participate in the RFP evaluation and/or piloting process. If you know of other educators who would like to contribute, but did not get a chance to attend the focus groups, please direct them to our website: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/improvement/resources/. There they will find some key documents to review as well as a survey to complete.
Professional Development
· August 22, 2011, 1:00 – 3:00 - UCPS Curriculum Day - Marvin Ridge High School “UCPS Spanish Teaching in Grades 6 – 12”
· Saturday, September 24, 2011 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m NNELL workshop
Cost: $45 member, $65 non member, includes year membership with registration Location: Smith Middle School-216 Addison Road, Glastonbury, CT 06033
To register for this workshop, please visit www.nnell.org.
· Friday – Saturday, October 14-15, 2011 FLANC Conference – This two-day conference takes place in Winston-Salem this year. Registration in $100.00. Conference registration includes 80-90 one hour sessions to choose from all day Friday from 9:00 – 5:00 and Saturday from 8:00 – 2:00. Lunch is included as is the General Session with guest-speaker and the FLANC after Friday social event and morning and afternoon refreshments. There is an exhibition hall with vendors of technology, text and teaching tools.. Pre-conference and post-conference workshops are an additional $30 for a three-hour workshop or $60 for a 6 hour workshop. Content-based / Academic CEUs are available for attendees based on attendance. Pre-conference workshops are Thursday, October 13, 2011. Post-conference workshops are Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 2:15. For more information go to www.flanc.org
Events
· Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:00AM to 6:00PM UNC-C 2011 International Festival The festival is centered around booths representing the cultures of about 50 nations. The booths are staffed by UNC Charlotte international students and members of Charlotte's international community and feature art, crafts and costumes from each participating country. Many booths offer international food for sale. Throughout the day the music and dance of a variety of nations will be presented on indoor and outdoor stages. Attendance has been estimated at 10,000. http://ifest.uncc.edu/
· Sunday, October 9, 2011, 12:00 – 7:00 p.m. Latin American Festival. (rain or shine) at Symphony Park in South Park. General admission is $5, children ages 9-12 are $3, and children under 8 and Mint Museum members are free. The annual event, showcases the traditions of the Caribbean, Central and South America. http://festivallatinoamericano.org/pr.html This year’s musical line-up includes: legendary Colombian pop/rock band Aterciopelados, (recognized by TIME magazine as one of the top 10 contemporary global bands and honored by the United Nations for their work denouncing violence in Colombia), Grammy winner Xperimento (Merengue, Ska, Kuduru and Jazz), Jose Conde, (Cuban roots and a mixture of American and Brazilian old-school funk, reggae, Afrobeat, and NYC dance beats), Gersey Nicolas (Bachata rhythms from the Dominican Republic), Los Tarascos de Michoacán and Fusion Latina (traditional Mexican and Latin grooves, respectively).
Technology Tools –
· AP list-serv – AP list-servs daily send out information from teachers around the world on topics of interest to those teaching that language. You don’t have to teach AP classes to find the resources highly useful. Register for “electronic discussion groups” at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/homepage/7173.html
· Delicious – online organizer for your favorite online links. You can give access to students or colleagues to see your favorite links. They can give you access to yours www.delicious.com Note - Yahoo! is excited to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company, AVOS. To continue using Delicious, you must agree to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks to AVOS.
· Quizlet is an online tool for digital flashcards. Vocabulary practice is a key to success in any language. Visit http://quizlet.com Make your own or see use what others have created:
· Wetoku – Record your oral communication with another classmate, another school or another country. Here is how an ESL teacher used it http://www.edutopia.org/blog/wetoku-new-teacher-boot-camp-lisa-dabbs Our favorite price – Free! http://www.wetoku.com
· Twitter – ideas on who to follow:
o SkypeClassroom – people from around the world post requests for Skype projects and partners.
o Try the hash tags - #globaled; #sschat for social studies chat;
· PDF Maker – You can convert your documents to pdf online at the link http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ You can also download CutePdfWriter to your computer to have your own pdf maker http://www.cutepdf.com/ New versions of Windows Office 2010 include the option to save a document as a pdf. (Thanks to Francy Zolke for the details).
· Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers Online digital forms from typical paper graphic organizers http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm
Global Competency
· The Asia Society has a new book online on Global Competency. It is free and downloadable http://asiasociety.org/files/book-globalcompetence.pdf
· How Shanghai Schools Beat Them All http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/01/how-shanghai-schools-beat-them-all/?iref=allsearch
· Guide to Foreign Policy Twittterati – who to follow on Twitter for political updates around the world http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/a_guide_to_the_foreign_policy_twitterati?page=0,0
· The Moon Over Us is a collaboration with schools in Beijing. It will run from September 4 to October 7. After the first project we will be continuing with additional collaborations. The iCollaboratory, http://www.icollaboratory.org, is partnering with Kidlink, http://www.kidlink.org, for this project.
“我们上方的月亮”是一个与美国学校的合作项目。 它将从9月4日一直进行到10月7日。在第一个项目之后，我们将继续其他的合作。在这个项目中，iCollaboratory （http://www.icollaboratory.org）与Kidlink（http://www.kidlink.org）一起运作。In the project, students aged 10-16 and their teachers from around the world share information about the moon and discuss this information by commenting on each others web pages.这个项目让学生学习关于月球在空中的运动。在这里，来自世界各地的学生和教师分享关于月球的信息， 并且在iCollaboratory网站上讨这些信息。If you are interested in participating in the project, please email icollaboratory@gmail.com or ghf123@yahoo.com 如果你对参加这个项目有兴趣，请发邮件到 icollaboratory@gmail.com 或 ghf123@yahoo.com
“我们上方的月亮”是一个与美国学校的合作项目。 它将从9月4日一直进行到10月7日。在第一个项目之后，我们将继续其他的合作。在这个项目中，iCollaboratory （http://www.icollaboratory.org）与Kidlink（http://www.kidlink.org）一起运作。In the project, students aged 10-16 and their teachers from around the world share information about the moon and discuss this information by commenting on each others web pages.这个项目让学生学习关于月球在空中的运动。在这里，来自世界各地的学生和教师分享关于月球的信息， 并且在iCollaboratory网站上讨这些信息。If you are interested in participating in the project, please email icollaboratory@gmail.com or ghf123@yahoo.com 如果你对参加这个项目有兴趣，请发邮件到 icollaboratory@gmail.com 或 ghf123@yahoo.com
Advocacy
· Why it is smart to be bilingual? – new research http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/07/why-it-s-smart-to-be-bilingual.html
Product Information
· French / Spanish Music CDs and DVDs for $25.00 US per set. They may be purchased at www.demado-seminars.com or info@demado-seminars.com . 2 French and 2 Spanish. La boutique magique (CD/DVD set) is the entry level set followed by its sequel Une boum cool (CD/DVD set). Festejemos (CD/DVD set) is the entry level set followed by its sequel Somos campeones (CD/DVD set). The CDs contain 10 vocals, each followed by the karaoke version so the students can perform the songs. The DVD provides colorful animations of the songs so the students receive the comprehensible input. The songs were written and are performed by John De Mado. Sample videoclip: French – Des aubergines, des pommes de terre. http://www.demado-seminars.com/jdmlsfrench2dvd.htm Spanish Dime como es tu familia http://www.demado-seminars.com/jdmlsspanishdvd.htm
Chinese Resources
· Learn Chinese with Mike free online videoclips . “American dude who teaches free and funny Mandarin Chinese lessons in his one-car garage.” http://www.chinesewithmike.com/
Latin Resources
· 200 essential words – http://www.bu.edu/mahoa/vocab200.html
· Tolle! Kege! List of 1,400 most frequent vocabulary words http://www.tabney.com/files/latingrammar/1400-essentials.pdf
French Resources
· Culture Box - Online, up-to-date cultural video guide with trailer about numerous types of films in France. http://culturebox.france3.fr/
· Recommended Films from AP French List-serv –
o “Le Papillon” en streaming par Netflix et online－effectivement, c’est superbe et peut toucher les plus jeunes comme les plus ages. C’est parfait. Pour trouver Le Papillon sur netflix, il faut donner le titre anglais qui est ‘The Butterfly’
o "Le Petit Nicolas" qui est recent et qui plairait surement aux eleves de cet age －completement approprie.
o L'argent de poche, peut-etre. Mes eleves l'ont adore.
· Parlement Européen - source magnifique pour rechercher les articles par thème APC'est le site du Parlement Européen. Le voilà: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/archive/search.do;jsessionid=69CB359E34EE24B34848B86A2B072D0A.node2?language=fr# Ici on peut rechercher des articles par thèmes spécifiques.
German Resources
· Petra Reuter from the German consulate in Miami’s educational division will be in NC in September to visit German programs. If you want to talk to Petra and to learn more about the proficiency-based tests, contact Ann Marie Gunter at DPI agunter@dpi.state.nc.us.
Spanish Resources
· MSN in Spanish http://latino.msn.com/
· Latin Music Legends US postal stamps- On March 16, 2011 the Postal Service™ issued a Latin Music Legends (Forever®) commemorative stamp (priced at 44-cents), and honors five musicians and performers of the Latin sound whose contributions have had a lasting impact on American music — Selena, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. Among the distinctive musical genres and styles represented are Tejano, tango, samba, Latin jazz and salsa.
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