Distance and Online Learning
Re-imagining Virtual Interaction
Using Gather.Town to re-imagine interaction in virtual and hybrid language learning
Presentations
Opening the Silos: Languages without Walls
World language departments are composed of teachers of many different languages. How can we work together and grow even when our languages are wildly different? This presentation focuses on the experiences of teachers of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and Read more…
Reflections
Advocacy for World Language Programs
Why learn a world language? Advocacy Resources @MSU_MAFLT Also published on the MAFLT blog: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/program-news. Advocacy has been a prevalent theme for world language teachers and programs in the U.S. recently. Teachers are overworked, programs are closing, funding is drying Read more…
Explaining Principles & Practices
What is CI, and What is the Opposite of Comprehensible Input?
The phrase “comprehensible input” has a lot of buzz among world language teachers – but what does CI really mean, and what does it mean to teach with CI?
Developing Faculty
The Spider and the Butterfly
This perspective on remote learning and teaching may sound strange at first, but bear with me.
Distance and Online Learning
Tech-Savvy FL Teachers Recommend…
Finding the right tool can be difficult for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the tech tools are hard to find because we aren’t quite sure what we are looking for. We can search by the names and types of tools, Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Keep Teaching FLT for Proficiency
Whether you have to teach remotely or you just want to use technology in innovative ways… Keep focusing on teaching language for proficiency! It doesn’t matter how many great new platforms, apps, and sites you use if they don’t increase Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Are You Ready to Go #RemoteFLT?
How is the transition to remote learning going for you? What are your needs? What are your recommendations? Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/are-you-ready-to-go-remoteflt/ Please take a few minutes to share your situation and responses to it. We will return Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Welcome to the Online Learning World
Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/welcome-to-the-online-learning-world/ Friends, colleagues, students, parents of small children, lend me your ears: there are no easy answers. Education is changing before our eyes, and some of those changes will last. Some of them will not. Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Creating and Sharing a Video Presentation
#MAFLTutorial from the MAFLT Community site in D2L Updated 3/20/2020 The following instructions were originally created to teach MAFLT Students how to complete the technical aspects of sharing a video presentation with their peers in D2L. There are other ways Read more…
