Only have 10 minutes to spend on language today? Refresh your Learned Vocab. Posted by meaghan on Jun 24, 2020 in For Learners, New in Learned Vocab
During acquisition training, you spent day after day focused solely on language. But now you’re on the job, expected to focus full-time on the mission at hand—while still maintaining proficiency. Obviously you don’t have 40+ hours a week for language anymore, but let’s say you can carve out 10 minutes each day to dedicate to…
New CL-150 Grammar Activities: Transform It Posted by meaghan on Jun 22, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, New in Lesson Authoring
Two new grammar-focused activities are now available in CL-150 Lesson Authoring and upcoming learning materials, including weekly CL-150 Cohort lessons. Two new grammar-focused learning activities—Transform & Say It and Transform & Write It—are now available to all CL-150 lesson authors and will appear in upcoming materials created by our team. These activities challenge learners to…
CL-150 Cohort Lesson of the Month – May 2020 Posted by meaghan on May 28, 2020 in Cohort Lesson of the Month, For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts
This month’s featured Cohort lesson is one of the first to include the new “Image Explorer” 360-degree image activity! The featured lesson comes from the Spanish ILR 2 lesson stream: ILR 2, 05/11/20: Buying a Car Online Becomes a Reality in Colombia (Technology/El Tiempo). As you can probably guess from the lesson title, the source…
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 11 Posted by meaghan on May 26, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
Since March, we’ve been openly sharing our weekly CL-150 Cohort lessons to help US Government language programs meet the challenges presented by COVID-19. This will be the last week of Open CL-150 Cohorts. If you’ve been finding value in these weekly lessons, we encourage you to join us at one of the CL-150 Open Houses…
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 10 Posted by meaghan on May 19, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
Since March, we’ve been openly sharing our weekly CL-150 Cohort lessons to help US Government language programs meet the challenges presented by COVID-19. As we prepare to wrap up the Open CL-150 Cohorts program next week, we’d like to invite you to explore more of the CL-150 Platform. If you’ve been benefitting from these Cohort…
? Be our (virtual) guest. Posted by meaghan on May 18, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, News and Events
You’re invited to take a tour of our “home” in the CL-150 Open House! Think of it like an episode of MTV Cribs or an issue of Architectural Digest, but instead of a celebrity leading you through their mansion, it’ll be us giving you a tour of the learner, instructor, and administrator portals in the…
Open CL-150 Cohorts – Week 9 Posted by meaghan on May 12, 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. Each week 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…