NDLR Modern Languages’ Community of Practice

The NDLR CSCoP in association with the UL Centre for Teaching and Learning are hosting a PBL Day in Limerick. This is an opportunity to hear how others accross a variety of disciplines are applying PBL techniques to their teaching as well as discuss opportunities for the advancement of PBL. This is a free event and we welcome attendance from around the country. For those unfamiliar with the UL campus, the venue is located in building reference 28 on the campus map http://www2.ul.ie/pdf/156289860.pdf parking places are available on request. To register please email aisling.dundon@ul.ie.

Conversations around innovative PBL

Friday 26th March University of Limerick

9.15 – 3.30 KB117

9.15 Welcome
Ms. Aisling Dundon NDLR

9.30 -10.30 Problem Based Learning in a Management Development Programme for
Front Line Managers:A Case Study
Ms. Yvonne Delaney

Process before Content: Learning from Defeat in Siege Warfare
Professor Tom Cosgrove

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 1.00 PBL for an Engineering Laboratory
Professor Tim Hall

Water Water Everywhere …an Albatross or an opportunity to learn Dr. Declan Phillips

Using PBL to integrate environment related learning outcomes in established engineering courses

Dr. Colin Fitzpatrick

Whose learning is it anyway? PBL and Language Learning materials

Dr. Feda Mishan

Software Quality: From Theory to Practice
Dr. Ita Richardson

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 -3.30 Round Table Discussion
Yvonne Delaney Chair

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures is pleased to present a Research Seminar on

The Legacy of Naturalism: Proletarians, Populism and Politics in Twentieth-Century French Literature

By Professor John Flower,
Emeritus Professor of Twentieth-Century French Literature, University of Kent

Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 at 5.00 p.m. in AM205
All Welcome!

The German Department at NUI Galway is having a conference for teachers of German in primary and secondary schools on March 20th.

Lehrerfortbildung /Teacher Training Day

Datum: 20. März 2010
Zeit: 9.30 Uhr – 16.30 Uhr
Ort: NUI, Galway, Arts Millennium Building

9.30 Uhr Begrüßung
Dr. Edward Herring, Dean of College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI, Galway
Professor Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Head of German, NUI, Galway
Pierce Purcell, Präsident Gesellschaft der Deutschlehrer Irlands

9.45-10.00 Uhr Goethe Institut und Second Level Support Service: Angebote für Lehrer
Dr. Georgia Herlt, Leiterin der Sprachabteilung, Goethe-Institut Irland
Dr. Kevin Mc Dermott, National Co-ordinator for Languages, SLSS

Literatur und Landeskunde im DaF-Unterricht

10.00-11.00 Uhr Vortrag: Dr. Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick)
Entwicklungen in den deutsch-irischen Beziehungen seit 1990: Spielt das alles eine Rolle im Deutschunterricht?

11.00-11.30 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.30-12.30 Uhr Workshop I: Dr. Deirdre Byrnes (NUI, Galway)
Das neue Berlin.

Workshop II: Don Morgan (Monkstown)
54, 74, 90, 2010 – Mit Fu?ball Deutsch lernen.

Workshop III: Dr. Katrin Schreiner (Galway)
„Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst.“ – Zur Arbeit mit Bildern im landeskundlichen Deutschunterricht.

Workshop IV: Dr. Tina-Karen Pusse (NUI, Galway)
Apfel mit Wurm – konkrete Poesie für Deutschschüler.

12.30-13.30 Uhr Mittagspause

Technologien im DaF -Unterricht

13.30-14.30 Uhr Vortrag: Dr. Arnd Witte (NUI, Maynooth) und Annelie Eberhardt (NUI, Galway):
Schule im Wandel. Ein Blended Learning Fortbildungsprogramm für Sekundarschullehrer/innen.

14.30-15.00 Uhr Kaffee und Regionalgruppentreffen

15.00-16.30 Uhr Workshop V: Berit Carmesin (NUI, Galway)
Podcasts im Deutschunterricht.

Workshop VI: Doris Devilly (NUI, Galway)
Blogs und Wikis.

Workshop VII: Gina McQuaid (Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative, Kildare Education Centre)
Using Webquests to develop cultural awareness.

Workshop VIII: Sabine Müller (NUI, Galway)
Youtube im Klassenzimmer.

Wir danken dem Goethe-Institut Irland für seine Unterstützung.

Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 16. März 2010 an (per Anmeldeformular, Email oder Anruf).
Annelie Eberhardt: 091-492270 und annelie.eberhardt@nuigalway.ie

There was a nice article in last Tuesday’s Irish Times about Alliance Française.

If you would like to take a look at this article you can check out the link below:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2010/0223/1224265025639.html

Gráinne

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.

You can download the software and it’s FREE. It supports 70 different languages and the makers encourage people to get in touch with them if you can’t find a language you would like to work with.

Format Factory’s Feature:
1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6 DVD Ripper.
7 Supports 50 languages

http://www.formatoz.com/index.html

E-Learning Magazine featured and interesting article this month about using texting to teach native languages.

Here’s a link to the article:
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=81-1

Gráinne

A Symposium of the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Friday 12th June, 2009

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the forthcoming Language On-line Portfolio Project (LOLIPOP) International Symposium which will take place in Dublin City University on Friday, the 12th of June 2009. Please consult the symposium website for further details:

www.lolipop-portfolio.eu/symposium/index.html

(Please note that if you click on the hyperlinked symposium title on the website you find our poster advertising the symposium.)

We would appreciate it if you could disseminate this announcement to your colleagues and look forward to seeing you at the event.

Regards,

Veronica Crosbie
Juliette Péchenart
Jenny Bruen

Dr Fionnuala Kennedy
Lecturer in German and Intercultural Communication Waterford Institute of Technology Cork Road Waterford

Last week myself and some of my colleagues attended the EdTech Conference at the National College of Ireland in Dublin, http://www.ilta.net, and attended some very interesting talks.

One of these talks was particularly interesting to those in the language teaching and learning field and it was presented to us by Kristan Brogan and Riana Walsh from the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin. Kristan and Riana are two of the main people involved in a project called The VOCAL Project and they presented a paper entitled “On-line language learning and cultural preparation for residence abroad” and this talk centred around The VOCAL Project (Vocationally Oriented Culture and Language – www.vocalproject.ie).

To find out more about this innovative project which includes the development of a website for learners preparing for mobility placement in vocational settings and it covers ten different languages.

For more information on this go to: www.vocalproject.eu.

Gráinne

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below details of the National Library’s summer programme of
lectures and tours on Irish – Italian Connections.
Kind regards,

Joanna Finegan
Learning & Outreach,
National Library of Ireland

Irish – Italian Connections at the National Library

The National Library of Ireland will host a series of events which will
examine the Irish – Italian connections in relation to two main exhibitions
currently running, ‘Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats’ and
‘Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe 1600-1800′.

The program includes three lectures:

The Tower and the Spiral: Yeats and Sicily by Dr. Daragh O’Connell
(University College Cork) on Monday 11 May at 7.00 pm

Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy by Dr. Eric Haywood (University
College Dublin) on Wednesday 13 May at 7.00 pm

‘In Italy perhaps writing poems…’ Yeats, Italy and Italian culture by
Prof. Enrico Reggiani (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan,
Italy) on Monday 18 May at 7.00 pm.

Guided tours in Italian and English of the Yeats exhibition will examine the
connections between Yeats and Italy. The tours will last approximately 45
minutes, they are free but booking is required.

For further information please contact Gabriella Addivinola, Education and
Outreach, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, T: (01)
6030346 or 6030277, E: gaddivinola@nli.ie or see the National Library’s
Current Events: http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.asp

Startin with Smoking-room, The instituto cervantes invites you to an excellent series of films this month. For the complete program have a look at:

http://dublin.cervantes.es/es/cultura_espanol/actividades_cultura_espanol.shtm

Smoking Room:

Proyección de cine

The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to bring into force the no-smoking policy in its offices. From then on, whoever wishes to smoke during working hours, must do so outside. Ramírez, one of the employees of this small office, made up mainly of men, decides to collect signatures against a measure that he considers both unjust and out of order. What Ramírez wants is to use an unoccupied room in the office as a Smoking-Room. At first it appears that all are in agreement and are going to support him. However, when he comes face to face with each of the employees, Ramírez meets with a series of excuses to avoid forming part of the list. The fact is that most of the excuses for not signing the Smoking- Room list actually conceal others.

La sucursal española de una empresa americana es obligada a poner en vigencia la prohibición de fumar dentro de sus oficinas. A partir de ahora, quienes quieran fumar en horario laboral, deberán hacerlo en la calle. Ramírez, uno de los empleados de esta pequeña oficina compuesta principalmente por hombres, decide empezar a juntar firmas contra lo que considera injusto y fuera de lugar. Lo que pretende Ramírez es que se utilice una sala desocupada en la oficina como sala de fumar, Smoking Room, que dicen los americanos. En apariencia, todos están de acuerdo y le van a apoyar. Sin embargo, en el cara a cara con cada uno de los empleados, Ramírez se encuentra con una serie de excusas para evitar formar parte de esta lista. Lo cierto es que la mayoría de excusas para no firmar en la lista de la Smoking Room esconden otras.
Dentro de
Un ABCdario del cine Ñ. (de la F a la M). Ciclo de cine
Ficha técnica
Título: Smoking-room
Director: Roger Gual, Julio Wallovits
Año producción: 2002
Formato: DVD
Duración: largometraje – 89 min
País producción España
Versión originalEspañola
SubtituladoInglés

Fechas

06/05/2009 (18:30 h)

Lugar
Instituto Cervantes – Café Literario
Lincoln House, Lincoln Place
2 Dublin
(IRLANDA)