<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Mon 02 May 2011<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: Occidental College STARTALK Teacher Training Program<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 02 May 2011<br>From: <<a href="mailto:imanhashemcflp@aol.com">imanhashemcflp@aol.com</a>><br>Subject: Occidental College STARTALK Teacher Training Program<br><br><div>OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE STARTALK TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM </div><div> </div><div>Putting the Arabic Standards Front and Center</div><div> </div><div>The program offers two independent sessions:</div><div> </div><div>1) "Building Leadership in the Arabic Language Teaching Community", June 19 - 23, 2011.</div><div>This is an invitational program that is designed for teachers who attended Occidental College’s STARTALK workshop in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, completed Occidental College’s Arabic Language Teaching Certificate, or equivalent course work. </div><div><br></div><div>2) "Technology as the Core of Standards-Based Arabic Instruction" June 25 - July 1, 2011. In this workshop, participants will be divided into two groups based on the needs they identify in the application and the level of their proficiency in standards-based and technology-enhanced instruction. Both groups will learn to effectively use various technologies to enhance a standards-based approach: locating authentic materials on the web including video, music,art, graphics, text, data; making input comprehensible using PowerPoint and moviemaker; facilitating interpersonal communication through instant messaging, video, audio and written chats, emails, blogs, interactive assignments and homework; supporting presentational communication using the technologies listed above as well as voki, aminoto, flip cameras,webpages, and Google Docs.</div><div> </div><div>For more information:</div><div>Iman Arabi-Katbi Hashem</div><div>Program Director</div><div>Occidental College Foreign Language Project</div><div><a href="mailto:ihashem@oxy.edu">ihashem@oxy.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.la-stars.net">www.la-stars.net</a></div><div>323-259-2949</div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 02 May 2011</body></html>