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…
Digitize your learning materials. Posted by meaghan on Apr 6, 2020 in For Instructors, For Program Managers
Taking your classroom online in a hurry? Most language instructors we’ve talked to are less worried about taking their class online than they are about taking their learning materials and lesson plans online. What if you could take your worksheets, textbooks, etc. and quickly digitize them into engaging, interactive online lessons, at scale, in 130…
Open CL-150 Cohort Lessons – Week 3 Posted by meaghan on Mar 31, 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. While these open lessons don’t include any data tracking…
Open CL-150 Cohort Lessons – Week 2 Posted by meaghan on Mar 24, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
If COVID-19 is disrupting your language program, we’d like to help. Last week we announced Open CL-150 Cohorts to help US Government language programs meet challenges presented by COVID-19. For at least four weeks, we will release all 36 of that week’s Cohort lessons for use by any learner, sustainer, or instructor in the US…