Archive for April, 2020
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 7 Posted by meaghan on Apr 28, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
In March, we announced Open CL-150 Cohorts to help US Government language programs meet challenges presented by COVID-19. For the next several weeks, we will release all 36 of that week’s Cohort lessons (plus special “COVID-19 News” lessons) for use by any learner, sustainer, or instructor in the US Government language community. You can find prior weeks’…
New CL-150 Learning Activities: Image Explorer Activities Posted by meaghan on Apr 23, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, New in Lesson Authoring
Two new image-based activities are now available in CL-150 Lesson Authoring and upcoming CL-150 lessons. To help learners more vividly visualize language and explore culture, we’ve added two new interactive image activities to the CL-150 Platform: Image Explorer – Preview It and Image Explorer – Locate It. Both activities work with flat images and 360-degree…
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 6 Posted by meaghan on Apr 21, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
On March 17 we announced Open CL-150 Cohorts to help US Government language programs meet challenges presented by COVID-19. For the next several weeks, we will release all 36 of that week’s Cohort lessons (plus special “COVID-19 News” lessons) for use by any learner, sustainer, or instructor in the US Government language community. You can find prior…
New CL-150 Learning Activity: Transcribe It Posted by meaghan on Apr 16, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts, New in Lesson Authoring
A transcription activity is coming to CL-150 Cohort lessons—and it’s already available for your custom lessons in Lesson Authoring! Listening is a deceptively complicated language skill, and nothing highlights that quite as clearly as simply trying to accurately write down what you’ve just heard, a skill known as transcription. To target higher level listening skills…
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 5 Posted by meaghan on Apr 14, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
On March 17 we announced Open CL-150 Cohorts to help US Government language programs meet challenges presented by COVID-19. For the next several weeks, we will release all 36 of that week’s Cohort lessons (plus special “COVID-19 News” lessons) for use by any learner, sustainer, or instructor in the US Government language community. You can find prior…
You’ve set up your virtual classroom. Now what? Posted by meaghan on Apr 9, 2020 in For Instructors, Pedagogy
So you’ve got your students set up in a virtual classroom—but now what? Online instruction is more complicated than gathering in a virtual classroom using Zoom or Skype and “teaching as usual.” Not all classroom activities transfer well to in a virtual space. On the other hand, virtual engagement and technology open up new possibilities…
Open CL-150 Cohort Lessons – Week 4 Posted by meaghan on Apr 7, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
On March 17 we announced Open CL-150 Cohorts to help US Government language programs meet challenges presented by COVID-19. For the next several weeks, we will release all 36 of that week’s Cohort lessons for use by any learner, sustainer, or instructor in the US Government language community. You can find prior weeks’ lessons here: Week 1…