Listening Comprehension Lessons

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to announce the debut of listening
comprehension lessons in Russian created under the auspices of a generous US
Department of Education "Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series"
(RAILS) grant.

The first three lessons, based on an interview with Russian actor and
director Veniamin Smekhov (from the Taganka Theater), are available NOW.
More lessons will be completed in the coming months.  These lessons and the
21 more lessons to come in the next 18 months are available from UW-Madison
for free to US educational institutions for classroom use.

You may learn more about the lessons and the RAILS project at our website:
http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/rails

You may request a userid and password to access the lessons by contacting
RAILS project manager, Dianna Murphy:  DiannaMurphy at wisc.edu.

RAILS project staff will be presenting these lessons as well as the two
authoring tools used to create these lessons at the 2004 AATSEEL Conference
(December 28 from 1 to 3 pm).  The authoring tools (Multimedia LessonBuilder
and Multimedia Annotator) can be used by faculty authors to create their own
multimedia lessons.  We welcome conference attendees to join us at this
session.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin
Principal Investigator for the RAILS Grant

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Benjamin Rifkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and Chair, Slavic Dept.
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

Director, Title VI Center for Russia, E. Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)
210 Ingraham Hall, 1550 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-3379; Fax (608) 890-0267
http://www.wisc.edu/creeca






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