Meeting 17 • 26 May 2009 • Tuesday

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6/2/09

People: Benoit, Montaigne; Breedlove, Clifford E.; McDonnell, Kelsey C.; Orcutt, Kathleen S.; Pennington, Laurissa B.; Salinas, Victor; Tasi, Joana; Watters, Erin.
Today

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Week 8: More about the projects; special presentations; how to wrap up the course with style

materials:

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(20' or more) More project discussions; if anyone is still lacking a course idea (Project 3), I recommend looking at programs where ordinary students (=not language students) make study / work trips abroad (ecology in Costa Rica, etc.) and developing a CBI component for them; see: www.ahastudyabroad.org; earthwatch; courses at abroad equivalents of community colleges (German: VHS / Volkshochschule)
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(10') Debrief Russian Flagship Program presentation from previous meeting

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(10') FLA article about engineering & German (#0712)

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(10') Two little CBI topics: Waldorf School marionette play; International High School IB competition
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(20') how CBI relates to careers in language teaching; CBI-related grant possibilities; links: Humboldt Project grants page; Albanian project; PSU CAE (see link "resources" and also "International CBL"); PSU OAA faculty development resources, including AIM grants; example of US DOE grant site (CFDA 84.017)
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(10') There will be no final exam. What will we do instead? Project Fair? Symposium? __?
Upcoming class meeting(s) (#18 • 28 May 2009 Thursday)

Emphasis: course-length CBI; beyond this course

Further topics: German 101 "Traumreise / Dream Trip" project as starting point for a for-credit CBI module

Team-Based Learning (Michaelsen book), resources 0164, 0191, 0192, 0193, 0431;

If not read already: Portland Public Schools "Recommendations for the Second Language Minimum Performance Standards" (#0010a)

0094 (Integrating Language & Content: Lessons from Immersion); 0114 (Lesson Planning); 0270 (Content-Based Language Instruction, as of 1986); 0082 (Discovering Science and Technology through American History)

Second-language and ESL modules for the Humboldt Project

Technology and Culture article about slaves in American South trading knowledge of African rice cultivation for better living conditions - idea for multi-subject CBI curriculum (#0725, to follow by email)
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