Workshop 1- June 22-26, 2009 (beginners and returning students)

Workshop 2- July 6-10, 2009 (2009 continuing students and advanced)

9:00AM – 5:00PM (with a one hour lunch break)

Northern Virginia Community College Arlington Center
(behind Holiday Inn)
Address and Phone: 4600 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington Virginia (703) 933-5050

NOVA STARTALK is a summer institute in its third year designed to help teachers integrate technology tools and 21st century language pedagogy in the Arabic and Chinese curricula. Arabic and Chinese teachers in each language will create a collection of activities to expand the curriculum presently in place. The networking that has resulted from this course in the two past years has enriched instruction and created a bond between teachers who have worked in teams in and out of our STARTALK setting.

Dr. Laura Franklin, Professor, Northern Virginia Community College and Editor, MERLOT World Languages

Ruihua Dong, Lead Trainer of Chinese Language, World Bank, Chinese consultant
Dr. Mohamed Esa, Associate Professor, McDaniel College, Arabic consultant
Dr. Marjorie Hall Haley, Professor, Foreign Language Licensure, George Mason University

Takako Shigehisa, Assistant Dean, World Languages, Northern Virginia Community College

This established STARTALK program targets teachers of Chinese and Arabic K-20 who work in the metropolitan Washington DC area, but is available to other teachers who can get to the venue during the weeks it is offered. All participants must attend all five days of each session they attend and must participate in product showcase. The first week of the program is appropriate for beginners and former students who wish to repeat basic training. The second week is designed for more advanced users of instructional technology.

• Faculty participants will apply Foreign Language Standards and Multiple Intelligence theory while creating Chinese and Arabic materials.
• Faculty participants will learn to use technology tools that promote student engagement in Chinese and Arabic classes (i.e.QUIA, MERLOT, wikis, blogs, video, slideshare, asynchronous voice tools, Photo Story, Nings, netvibes, social bookmarking and others).
• Faculty participants will create a personal tool kit of materials to be used in Arabic and Chinese courses and shared with colleagues in the target languages.
• Faculty participants will integrate activities that they discover in the daily workshops in syllabi for Arabic and Chinese courses during summer 09 and beyond.

Applications will be accepted until the program fills. Please send questions to lfranklin@nvcc.edu.
Apply now for Startalk 2009.

See the 2008 Participants' projects and blogs