Listening Comprehension Lessons

[Slava Paperno]

I don't remember when I was as enthusiastic about new materials. Every language teacher should check out this site. I just went through the lessons and am very, very impressed. Every aspect of the project rates an A+. The technological achievement makes me very jealous (I wish I had done this :), the visual design is excellent, the pedagogy is first-rate, and the cultural and linguistic material is right on the money.

Congratulations to everyone who made this for us! I know it was a mountain of work, and the quality of the work is superb.

Gratefully,

Slava Paperno
Cornell University
At 01:35 PM 12/15/04 -0600, you wrote:
>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 thetwo 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
>
>*************
>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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