AFLA 2008 Conference Schedule
Note: This schedule will continue to be revised as the conference approaches. Please check back often for the most up-to-date information.
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September 30, 2008 10:32 PM
Tech Trekking in the Last Frontier
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
UAA - Rasmuson Hall
| 5:00 | Registration at UAA - Rasmuson Hall Opening Reception |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Welcome - Opening Remarks Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ted Kassier |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Workshops - Session 1 Poetry in the WL Classroom: Using Declamation Poems
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast Light Continental Breakfast in Rasmuson Lobby |
| 8:30 - 11:45 | Workshops - Session 2 Differentiated Instruction tp Support and Challenge Our 21st Century Learners Our 21st century learners need a multi-sensory and multi layered learning environment that is designed to inspire creativity, synthesis, and collaboration, as well as provide opportunities to analyze, reflect and evaluate. But how do we reach all of our 21st century students? Participants will review the research and explore the concepts of differentiated instruction as well as experience strategies such as choice boards, RAFT writing activities and iered lessons. Participants will then examine and design activities tha apply higher level questioning techniques. Finally participants will take a look at tools that make learning come alive for our 21st century digital learners. |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch and AFLA Business Meeting Cuddy Center Lunch and Dinner included in your Conference Fee |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Workshops - Session 3 - Language Specific Sessions German - Room 110: Astrid Ronke - Mit Leib und Seele dabei sein- Deutsch lernen als ganzheitiches Erlebnis (oder) Japanese- Room 315: Carla Williams Russian- Room 111: Michele Whaley - Russian Roundtable French - Room 117: Toni Theisen - Differentiated Learning In French Spanish - Room 101: Kristin Dahl AEIN - AK Native - Room 211: Nancy Boxler Elementary - Room 220: Elena Farkas (Roundtable) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Vendor viewing/ Snack - Lobby |
| 4:00 - 5:30 | Workshops - Session 4 Energizing Your German Classroom Part 2 Looking for fresh and unique ideas to enhance learning and energize your German classes? In this hands-on interactive session, the presenter will share creative activities addressing not only the mind, but also the body and emotion of the learners, using simple drama techniques and visuals. Participants will receive a detailed handout with activities for immediate use. Tech Please! Three teachers share technology tricks to use with or without a lab to enhance your world language classroom. Get the update on a modern family tree and how to make Power Points easy from the first moment in the computer lab. Find out how to easily store your documents in cyberspace, and how students can safely connect and communicate despite living in different states or countries, even with non-Latin alphabets. Finally, learn to use technology to support comprehensible input for TPR Storytelling. The presenters will provide student work samples and clear directions for using basic tools including PowerPoint, Google Documents, Google Groups, Voice Thread and more. Vertical Teaming for Student Success Info TBA Expanding Your Toolbox: Online Tools You Can Use Today! This session will introduce participants to various free on-line tools that can easily be utilized to enhance and enrich instruction and learning. Take advantage of easy-to-use, motivating, collaborative tools that can supplement your teaching and get your students using language for authentic purposes. We’ll look at Voicethread, Wikis and Flickr.
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| 5:45 - 9:00 | Dinner at the Cuddy Center Sudarushka Russian Folk Dance group with the Alaska Russian Cultural Society Dinner Music: Karl Wilhelmi Karl Wilhelmi is a member of several bands in Anchorage--jazz, funk, folk and rock. He teaches guitar and bass guitar, and he performs occasionally on such instruments as the lute, the mandolin and the classical guitar with the Anchorage Opera and Anchorage Symphony. |
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Light Continental Breakfast Lobby - Rasmuson Hall |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Workshops - Session 5 Jacques the Adventure Bear Incorporate a stuffed animal into teaching culture, vocabulary and more. 500 miles in 35 days: You Can Hike Camino to Santiago! You’ve heard about the medieval pilgrims’ trails across the north of Spain from the French border to the city of Santiago de Compostela. Check out my slides from two treks along the Camino Frances and find out how to plan and prepare your own hike on this historic trail. Buen camino! TPR - From Simple Commands to Digital Storytelling More about digital storytelling in the classroom Berlin: What can you do to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall and the European Union: A current overview and ideas for a unit in the T2 classroom. |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Workshops - Session 6 AEIN/Language Acquisition Network The Alaska Educational Innovations Network supports educators coming together to share resources, expertise and knowledge. We believe that by building stronger teaching and learning communities within and across schools and districts in Alaska it will lead to improved instructional practices. Please come take a look at a network specifically designed for language educators. National Education Travel Council A Practical Approach by a TPRS Beginner: If I Can Do It, You Can! Tech Projects to Show Off Your Language Skills From low tech to high tech, a project can help students show what they know and can do. Projects cover grammar and vocabulary points as well as art, culture and research projects. Teachers will leave with a packet of activities and projects for all levels of French. |
| 11:30 - Noon | Closing Door Prize Drawing |
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