Arabic-L:PEDA:CLASSRoad Initiative in Arabic Pedagogical Resources

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1) Subject:CLASSRoad Initiative in Arabic Pedagogical Resources

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Date: 29 Sep 2012
From: munir at HADI.ORG
Subject:CLASSRoad Initiative in Arabic Pedagogical Resources

We need your help as an Arabic language professional!

Please join us in a groundbreaking project to identify the best resources
for teaching and learning Arabic. These resources will be part of a new
website being developed to support your work and promote Arabic studies!

CLASSRoad, an initiative of HADI (Human Assistance and Development
International) in collaboration with the LanguageAcquisition Resource
Center at San Diego State University, is the recipient of a grant from
Qatar Foundation International (QFI) to develop this comprehensive Arabic
resource website. This "one-stop-shop" for teachers, program
administrators, curriculum specialists and others involved in Arabic
studies will house information about instructional resources and
professional opportunities. The site will enable users to access the best
curated content, rate and review resources, engage in conversations and add
new material to keep the website relevant and robust.

You can do your part in ensuring that the Arabic Resources website, when
launched next year, contains excellent content that serves your
professional needs.

Please take a few moments to reflect on existing online resources and
information sources that you utilize in course preparation, student
assignments/activities, professional development, and so on. These websites
might be about teacher workshops, university Arabic programs, textbooks and
other materials, professional associations, literature or other teaching
content, software and mobile apps, discussion forums, or anything else
pertaining to Arabic that you use frequently.

Please click on the link below and you will be taken to a webpage where you
can paste in the URL of a website, and then type in any comments that you
feel may be helpful in determining the value of the recommended item. Once
you submit the first entry, you will have the option of repeating the
process for additional entries. We welcome as many entries as you would
like to contribute, and all who recommend five or more unique resources
(not already entered by someone else) will be credited on the website's
acknowledgements page.

Note that it is critical to provide us the specific URL of a given
resource, not the top-level domain URL or URL of the section of a site
where the resource may be located.

We would appreciate receiving your recommendations by Friday, October 5 (We
want to incorporate this information during the current stage of the
project, and are working within a tight timeline).

CLICK HERE: http://www.classroad.com/ARS/Resources.php

We thank you in advance for your participation in this landmark effort.
During the development of the website, there may be additional
opportunities for you to contribute and be recognized for your expertise
and assistance. For example, you may qualify to serve as a resource
evaluator and prepare a formal, rubric-based review of selected resources,
for which you would be compensated and credited more prominently on the
website when it is launched.

We look forward to your participation as a stakeholder in the success of
this effort.

Best regards,

Munir Shaikh
Project Director
CLASSRoad

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