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CLTA News Flash
- In this issue:
- CLTA Conference in Santa Clara - Registration Deadline February 12
- Conference Hotel Reservations - Reserve your room by February 23
- Register online
- Earn Credit for Attending the Conference
- Conference Workshops - Thursday and Friday
- February is Discover Languages Month
- Can you help us promote world language study?
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CLTA Conference 2011
- Theme: South Bay Language Cabaret
- March 17-20, 2011
- Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California
- Registration deadline is February 12, 2011
- Registration Information
- Download Registration Form
- Download Registration Packet
- Please read before completing registration
- Note from Registrar
- If your school is sending us your registration, please send in a copy directly to the conference registrar when you submit it to your school. This way we can hold your place and watch for your registration to come from your school.
Continuing Education Units
Attendees at the CLTA Conference can earn up to 2 units of Continuing Education Units offered through San José State University. Registration information and attendance logs will be available at the Hospitality Desk at the conference. One unit of credit is available per 10 hours of sessions (for $70), 1.5 units per 15 hours (for $105) and 2 units per 20 hours (for $140. To get the full 2 units of credit, a participant would need to attend at least one of the 3-hour workshops offered on Thursday. Payment can be by credit card or personal check.
Pre-Conference Workshops Offered on Thursday and Friday
- Discovering Grammar: Making It Make Sense in the Target Language
- Methodology, Classroom Management, Discipline
- Advanced Placement Spanish Language Exam Workshop
- Advanced Placement French Language Exam Workshop
- Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture Exam Workshop
- Create Digital Story with Windows Movie Maker
- Intégrer les TIC (Technologies de l’information et de la communication) dans l'enseignement du français
- Standards 101: Getting Started
- Making El Cid Accessible to High School Students
- ALL THE WORLD (Language Class) IS A STAGE!!!
- Much from Little
- Écrire pour faire écrire / Techniques d'écriture créative en classe de français
- Podcasting in the World Language Classroom
- Classroom Management 101-The Magic of We
- A Standards-Based Unit on Peru
- Strip Books, Secret Books and Template Poems: Guiding Students to Create with the Language
- French Advanced Placement
- Atelier d'écriture, atelier de théâtre
- Google Docs in the Language Classroom
- Let's PracticeThat!
- Vamos al Mercado
- The Playful Brain: Guided Imagery for the Creative Classroom
February is Discover Languages Month
Here is How You Can Educate, Advocate and Celebrate Discover Languages Month:
Can you help us promote world language study?
We are looking for people to interview.
Hello!
My students and I are looking for interesting people to interview and news "tidbits" to share for our second annual webcast in honor of Discover Languages Month in February. If you or someone you know has a compelling story about the importance, impact, personal influence of multilingualism, etc., have them contact me ASAP! We would like a variety of societal sectors represented: elected officials, businesspeople, authors and researchers, those who work with humanitarian and community orgs, individuals touched/impacted by their own bilingualism, etc. Those selected to participate will be interviewed by the student hosts of the program. In fact, the entire show is student-run! We can have interviews in person from our make-shift studio (my classroom) or we can interview via Skype. This allows you or others to participate regardless of the distance between us!
And here's the best news: in order to generate more publicity for the webcast and more viewers hearing the message about the benefits of multilingualism, we are officially attempting to break a Guinness World Record for longest "marathon" broadcast. We successfully did a live, streaming webcast for 24 consecutive hours last year. Since the current record is 33 hours, we will webstream our Discover Languages content, interviews, entertainment and games for 34 consecutive hours. But we really need your help to make this happen. Keep reading for more ways to help.
We are also looking for "news" related to language and language learning. We're looking for compelling reasons to study language, become multilingual and/or maintain or build one's heritage-language proficiency while learning English. This could be about large companies that have added language-proficient staff due to business needs; new research about benefits of multilingualism; movie stars (etc.) who are purposefully ensuring their children are blilingual; statements about importance of language made by "powerful", "influential" or famous people, etc. To have news ideas considered for inclusion, send the ideas to nnaditz@sanjuan.edu.
The Webcast will air live from 8:00 a.m. Pacific time Feb. 22 to 6:00 p.m.. Pacific Time Feb. 23 on Ustream.
Spread the word to your contacts! The whole point is to get beyond the education sector.
Merci !
Nicole Naditz
Chair, CLTA Discover Languages Committee
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