FLTP Portfolio Intensive | Saturday, April 5th AND 12th, 2014

The Foreign Language Technology Program's Portfolio Intensives are coming up! The portfolio intensive is designed to help CU language faculty, instructors and TAs complete the last steps of their FLTP teaching with technology portfolio. To view past FLTP portfolios, visit http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/portfolio_showcase.shtml 

If you have attended 4+ FLTP workshops you are invited to attend the Portfolio Intensive! We do ask that you attend both Saturdays or if you can only make one, that you select the first. We cover unique information on the first day that will not be repeated the second Saturday. And please plan to stay the entire day. Contact us if you have any questions or hesitations! You will receive one FLTP workshop credit for each Saturday you attend. Also, please note that this is not a required step of the FLTP. You are more than welcome to complete your professional portfolio on your own.

Here is a glimpse of what we will be covering on both days.
*Please note: there may be subtle changes to accommodate our visiting presenters.

Saturday, April 5th (8:00 to 4:00 in Hellems 145) 

• Day 1 Handout and Presentation
• Breakfast and introductions 
• Teaching philosophy workshop with Anne Becher (Spanish Department) 
• Resume workshop with Career Services 
• Lunch break 
• Introduction to Portfolio Design (we'll look at examples, discuss content & purpose) 
• Paper prototype (you will outline the structure of your portfolio on paper and receive feedback on the organizing scheme) 
• WordPress workshop (you will create your site, the pages and subpages and get to know the program) 
• Participants continue building their portfolio 

Saturday, April 12th (8:00 to 4:00 in Hellems 145)

• Presenting content (how to present a lesson plan or an activity in your portfolio using text, images, video and annotated screenshots) 
• Design Considerations 
• Participants continue building their portfolio & Photoshoot (optional/if the weather allows it). Those who are interested will be offered the opportunity to have their picture taken (to include in their portfolio). (Note: wear a professional top if you plan to have your photo taken) 
• Lunch break 
• Participants continue building their portfolio 
• Participants will exchange constructive criticism of each other's portfolio 

Please sign up for the Portfolio Intensive ahead of time at http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/

* The Spring 2014 FLTP Share Fair will be Friday, April 19th during which you all will have the opportunity to present a language technology project to your colleagues. Please submit a brief abstract of your presentation at: http://tinyurl.com/sharefair2014

Technology Sampler | April 2nd OR 3rd, 2014

Our next workshop of the semester for ALTEC's Foreign Language Technology Program will be our "Technology Sampler". For those of you who have attended the "Technology Sampler" in the past, this will be a completely new set of technologies than we have looked at before.

In this workshop, we will sample a number of fun and easy to use technologies that you can use in and outside of your language classrooms to teach, create, play and streamline.

Workshop Logistics: 
Hellems 145
Wednesday, April 2nd 3pm-5pm
OR
Thursday, April 3rd 3pm-5pm

To Sign Up: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml

Workshop Presentation: http://tinyurl.com/tech-sampler2014

Improving Listening Comprehension with Technology | March 12th OR 13th, 2014

Next week is the fourth workshop of the semester for the FLTP, "Improving Listening Comprehension with Technology". ALTEC's Director Dr. Mark Knowles will lead this workshop.

Second language teachers are very good at testing listening comprehension, but how good are we at teaching it? If asked to describe the listening comprehension process and then how best to teach listening, how well would we do? Since listening comprehension is one of the skills our students report feeling most apprehensive about, greater attention to this skill is a long time in coming. In this workshop we will look at some of the gaps that researchers Larry Vangergrift and Christine Goh are helping to fill and we will see how learners can activate processes of skilled listeners. The workshop will also focus on practical and successful ideas for listening tasks that use technology.

Workshop Logistics:
Hellems 145
Wednesday, March 12th 3pm-5pm
OR
Thursday, March 13th 3pm-5pm

Mark's presentation
Listening comprehension activity from the workshop