In June, COERLL held a three-part webinar series for professional development which focusing on Open Educational Resources for foreign language educators. The events were free and open to the public and participants were able to receive CPE credits if they had pre-registered.

Webinar 1: Finding Open Media for Foreign Language Instruction

June 12, 2013

Summary: This session explored the principles of Open Education and how it fits into a landscape of education that is rapidly changing from an industrialized model, to an organic model. In addition, we provided suggestions as to where foreign language educators can find and adapt high quality open resources to their classrooms and become a part of this collaborative movement.

Presenters:

Garin Fons, Projects Manager, COERLL

Nathalie Steinfeld Childre, Publications Manager

Watch the recorded webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpjLIX11Jew

Webinar 2: The Practice of Adapting, Teaching, and Creating OER

June 19, 2013

Summary: This session focused on using Open Educational Resource to improve and augment the teaching and learning experience. Dr. Orlando Kelm, COERLL Director Dr. Carl Blyth, and French Ph.D Candidate Amanda Dalola joined in the conversation to provide insight on what it is like to create, adapt, and teach with OER in their classrooms.

Presenters:

Garin Fons, Projects Manager, COERLL

Nathalie Steinfeld Childre, Publications Manager

Orlando Kelm, Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Dept. of Portuguese and Spanish

Amanda

Watch the recorded webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_aBwVJNb8

Webinar 3: A Focus on SpinTX - an Open Video Archive for Language Learning

June 26, 2013

Summary: The final session introduced SpinTX (www.spintx.org) to a broad range of teachers and technologists from around the country. Project Directors Dr. Barbara Bullock, Dr. Jacqueline Toribio, and developers Rachael Gilg and Arthur Wendorf joined in for the conversation to showcase the features of SpinTX and to answer a variety of great questions from our participants.

Presenters:

Garin Fons, Projects Manager, COERLL

Barbara Bullock, Professor, Dept. of French and Italian

Jacqueline Toribio, Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

Rachael Gilg, Lead Developer of SpinTX project, COERLL

Arthur Wendorf, Developer, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

Watch the recorded webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaW5r4TewqU

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