NDLR Modern Languages’ Community of Practice

NUI Galway will host the first Modern Languages’ Community of Practice Symposium on Friday December 5th. This free, fun-packed event will look at innovative ways of introducing technology into the classroom, give you a chance to discuss ideas with your colleagues, and allow you some time to get your hands dirty and actually use the technologies yourselves.

An outline of the days activities:

More details and registration information available here.

We are delighted to announce the arrival of the:

Modern Languages’ Community of Practice Forum

We have been working hard all summer to bring you this forum, as requested by you, the members.

The URL for the discussion forum is www.ndlr.ie/modlang/forum. To post to the forum you need to first apply for membership. To do this either click here or navigate to the forum and click on Sign In in the top right corner of the page. Then click on Apply for membership. You will be sent an email as soon as your account has been approved.

This forum has been requested by members in order to aid and encourage community discussion on topics relevent to Modern Languages. Feel free to start new discussions on areas relevent to you within the context of Modern Languages and please always respect the community and your colleagues when posting to the forum.

At present there are two categories ‘NDLR Resources’ and ‘General’. Please send requests for new categories to ndlrmodernlanguages@nuigalway.ie.

Dear current and past members of IRAAL/CTF,

This is a message to remind you that the deadline for submission of abstracts for the Language Policy and Language Learning conference which will take place directly after a meeting in UL of the AILA Executive and International Committee and of AILA-Europe, is Monday 8 December. That is just three weeks away. We would also be grateful if you would remind your colleagues and students about this conference and urge them to submit a good abstract for a poster, paper, or panel.

Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
Conference Chair and President of IRAAL
Rúnaí na Comhdhála agus Uachtarán ChTF

More information is available from the conference website: http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/lpll2009/

It is with saddened hearts that we say goodbye to our guest editor of the last few months, Odette Gabaudan. Odette has done a sterling job of providing the Modern Languages’ Community with up to date news and information taking place around and about. We would like to thank Odette for her input and collaboration – it has been great.

Good news though, we do have a colleague ready to wear the guest editor cap for the next 6 – 8 weeks. We would like to welcome Dr. Isabelle Lemée of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and thank her in advance for her contributions to the community.

Isabelle’s profile can be viewed by clicking on the image on the top right corner of the blog page. As always, if you have any interesting news or events relevant to the Modern Languages’ Community, please forward it to ndlrmodernlanguages@nuigalway.ie.