<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Fri 05 Nov 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 05 Nov 2010<br>From: Mourad Diouri <<a href="mailto:mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com">mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com</a>><br>Subject: e-Arabic Teachers Digest #001 (Oct 2010)<div><br></div><div>[This message was, as you can imagine, nicely formatted and colored, but Arabic-L currently can only post unformatted messages. Sorry about that. -dil]<br><br><div>*************Please forward to interested colleagues***********</div><div><br></div><div>Abbreviations: ALT: (Arabic Language Teaching), TAFL (Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language)</div><div>Dear Arabic Teachers,</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this update finds you in the best state of health and at the peak of your teaching career.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the first e-Arabic Teachers Digest which is a dedicated monthly service to support anyone involved in the field of ALT and would like to stay up to date with the latest developments in the field. In a nutshell, there are six important updates to share with you this month:</div><div><br></div><div>e-Arabic Teachers Portal</div><div>EVENTS Directory & Calendar</div><div>NEWS Articles Directory</div><div>Professional Networks & Groups</div><div>Mailing Lists Directory</div><div>e-Learning Tools & Technologies</div><div>A copy of this digest is available online at the e-Arabic Teachers Portal: <a href="http://v-arabic.com/digest-001">v-arabic.com/digest-001</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you wish to share an up-to-date item related to TAFL, please go the page Share & Contribute (<a href="http://goo.gl/C2Ps">http://goo.gl/C2Ps</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>e-Arabic Teachers Portal</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a repeated request from Arabic teachers, I have designed this portal which is a gateway to a growing pool of resources , tools and ideas organised and indexed into categories to help you enhance your teaching practice of AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language). The (eATP) is still under construction. For now, you may browse the following pages:</div><div><br></div><div>Events Directory & Calendar</div><div><br></div><div>With the ever-changing field of ALT, many institutions organise a variety of events to support anyone involved in teaching or researching the Arabic language. Keeping up to date with the latest events is sometimes near-impossible! To help you keep track of the latest events from around the world, we have created a directory of events and an interactive Calendar. The type of events that will appear in this directory/calendar are:</div><div><br></div><div>Conferences</div><div>CPD Training Programs</div><div>Seminars & Workshops</div><div>Online Training courses</div><div>Symposiums</div><div>Exhibitions</div><div>If you wish to stay in touch with the latest and forthcoming events, I’d recommend that you subscribe to any of the following:</div><div><br></div><div>Calendar (Google, iCal, Outlook)</div><div>Email alerts</div><div>RSS feed</div><div>Here is a selection of the latest events:</div><div><br></div><div>Conference | 4th MoLaCo conference for teachers of Arabic, French, Italian and Spanish, London, UK (<a href="http://bit.ly/b5AY69">http://bit.ly/b5AY69</a>) </div><div>Conference | The Challenges of Teaching Arabic in the 21st Century 9-10th Feb 2011, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar (<a href="http://goo.gl/kRfj">http://goo.gl/kRfj</a>) </div><div>Conference | Arabic Language and the Internet Conference Dec 2010, Tunisia ( <a href="http://bit.ly/aWdM8r">http://bit.ly/aWdM8r</a>) </div><div>Visit the Events Directory at: <a href="http://goo.gl/mZIJ">http://goo.gl/mZIJ</a></div><div><br></div><div>NEWS Articles Directory</div><div><br></div><div>The news articles, both in Arabic and English, listed in this page are weblinks to external sites which I regularly come across online. These links are then bookmarked and archived in this page for future reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a selection of the latest news:</div><div><br></div><div>NEWS | تونس قِبلة لتعليم العربية للأجانب | Middle East Online</div><div>NEWS | بين تحرير العربية وتصحيح الرؤية لتعليم اللغات | Middle East Online</div><div>NEWS | Reading Arabic "hard for brain" BBC NEWS</div><div>Visit the NEWS directory at :<a href="http://goo.gl/dgSQ">http://goo.gl/dgSQ</a></div><div><br></div><div>Professional & Social Networks & Groups</div><div><br></div><div>Another way to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of ALT as well as networking with fellow-minded professionals, you may join the following:</div><div><br></div><div>Professional Networks</div><div>Professional Organisations</div><div>Social/Facebook Groups</div><div>If you are familiar with other networks, organisations, etc… that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.</div><div><br></div><div>Visit the directory at: <a href="http://goo.gl/o8RX">http://goo.gl/o8RX</a></div><div><br></div><div>Mailing & Discussion Lists</div><div><br></div><div>Likewise, to help you stay up to date with events, news and developments in the field of TAFL, you may also wish to subscribe to any of the mailing-lists listed in the directory. These mailing lists are dedicated to teaching professionals in:</div><div><br></div><div>Arabic language</div><div>Arabic Linguistics</div><div>Arabic Literature</div><div>If you are familiar with other mailing-lists that are not included in this directory, please get in touch.</div><div><br></div><div>Visit the directory at:http://goo.gl/o8RX</div><div><br></div><div>e-Learning Tools & Technologies</div><div><br></div><div>The e-Learning Tools & Technologies directory is still under development and will be available soon to support ALT professionals interested to integrate technology in their classroom teaching.</div><div><br></div><div>URL: <a href="http://goo.gl/V2AM">http://goo.gl/V2AM</a></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, don't forget to:</div><div>Follow us at: Facebook, Twitter</div><div>Join the eATP</div><div>If you have any questions about this digest, please feel free to leave a comment below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div>Mourad Diouri | مراد الديوري</div><div>e-Learning Lecturer in Arabic Studies</div><div>Centre for the Ad. Study of the Arab World | University of Edinburgh</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com">mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com</a></div><div>w: eArabic Learners Portal : <a href="http://e-Arabic.com">e-Arabic.com</a></div><div>w: eArabic Teachers Portal : <a href="http://v-Arabic.com">v-Arabic.com</a></div><div>w: As the Arabs Say... <a href="http://v-Arabic.com/aas">v-Arabic.com/aas</a></div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 05 Nov 2010n</div></body></html>