Arabic-L:PEDA:Technology and Curr Design Workshop at Emory

[Dilworth Parkinson]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Thu 20 Feb 2003
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to
listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
           unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory-------------------------------------

1) Subject:Technology and Curriculum Design Workshop at Emory

-------------------------Messages--------------------------------------
1)
Date: 20 Feb 2003
From: Mahmoud Al-Batal <albatal at emory.edu>
Subject: Technology and Curriculum Design Workshop at Emory

PLEASE POST
=============

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University

In cooperation with

The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
at Brigham Young University

Presents

Technology, Curriculum Design & Material Development
A workshop for teachers of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian & Turkish

Wednesday, May 14 - Friday, May 16

This workshop aims to bring together teachers of Arabic, Hebrew,
Persian,
and Turkish to engage in conversations across languages and within each
language on the state of and prospects for the curriculum and
technology-based materials.

DAY ONE:  STATE OF THE CURRICULUM AND STATE OF TECHNOLOGY
Joint session for all languages
The first day will be devoted to presentations on the state of the
curriculum and materials in each language, and demonstrations of recent
and
current technology-based material development projects in each of the
four
languages .

DAY TWO:  DEVELOPING CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS
Language-specific sessions
Teachers in each language will meet as a group to consider curricular
and
pedagogical issues that are particular to their language.  Such issues
may
include technology, proficiency standards, heritage learners, testing
and
assessment, etc.

DAY THREE:  EXPLORING SHARED ISSUES AND NEEDS
Joint session (half day)
This session of the workshop will be devoted to discussion of the issues
raised in the first two days and setting of priorities for action.

Detailed information about the presentations on Day One will be
announced
soon.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Emory has limited financial
support
(reimbursement) available for eligible participants.  For general
inquiries
or to register for the workshop, please contact Nick Fabian in the
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University,
at
rfabian at emory.edu or (404)727-2697 .

Deadline for registration is April 30, 2003

------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
End of Arabic-L:  20 Feb 2003