FLAND NEWS

FALL 2008

 

Contents

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President's Letter (see below) | FLAND WIKIBlog | Editor Wanted
FALL FLAND/NDEA CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FLAND Silent Auction Form
(for items brought to the Fall Conference; set printer to print page 5)

Conference Directions | Conference Hotels

Other Upcoming Dates

FLAND Dues Form  (this will print out as one page; set printer to print page 4)

Copies of FLAND News for non-members

 

 

 President’s Letter

 

Dear Fellow Members of FLAND, Friends and new Colleagues:

 

Welcome back to another year of teaching. I am sure this is about the time when you start to realize just how overwhelming it can be at times, but at the same time how rewarding it can also be. Just when I think I am drowning in meetings, grading and all of the non-contact things we need to do, I have a student who just really makes my day by telling me how he or she was able to try out his or her French when waiting on some tourists in a restaurant. (And to their surprise, it worked!) This is the first of our efforts to pare down the newsletter, following our decision last spring to use our new Wiki and abandon our old newsletter format. It definitely has had some problems, but none that cannot be worked on and improved. I hope that you have all been to our wiki site and that you will sign up if you haven’t yet done so – I will include some information and some directions below, but I will admit that I am a novice on the subject. It is a great way to share information and ask questions, but it will only work if we use it, so please go to the site and try it out. This year’s Fall conference will be held in Fargo, and the FLAND sectionals will be at South High School. Laura Terrill’s talk sounds really great and I know that we all struggle with getting our students to really read a text and to write about it. I will keep this short in order to get this out quickly, but I look forward to seeing you all in Fargo. If you can’t make it to Fargo this Fall, there is a FLAND Membership Form enclosed and we’ll be sending out information about our spring meeting in Jamestown.

 

Jeanne HAGEMAN, President, FLAND

 What’s a wiki? Do you wiki?

 FLAND has a new wiki site for sharing all kinds of information.  A wiki, for those of you like me, who before last Spring had never heard of a wiki is a kind of interactive website / blog, a place for us to share information, announcements, question, whatever you think would be helpful to your colleagues. You can add to it yourself, rather than going through a website manager, simply by joining and then starting or adding to a thread.  Give it a try! It is really not as scary as it sounds!

 

You can peruse, check-put and join our site at  www.fland.wetpaint.com.  Hopefully if you are receiving this electronically, you can click on the site to get there.  If not, Kate Stevenson has graciously put a link on the FLAND website too. That can still be reached at http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/stevenso/FLAND/index.html. Then just click on FLAND news and voilà! The link will appear. To join, all you need to do is click on the “Join this wiki” button in the upper right-hand corner, fill in the required fields and you’re in.

 

Newsletter Editor Wanted:

 

Someone to be in charge of the pared-down Fall and Spring issues of the FLAND News. This would require some formatting (minimal) of a 2-3 page newsletter, to include conference information, links etc. This would be sent out electronically as well as in hard-copy.

 

Getting to the FLAND / NDEA conference:

There are two fairly easy ways to get to South High School. From downtown, head south on S. University to either 15^th Avenue South or 17^th Avenue South. Turn right and follow the street about seven blocks and you will see the school.  There is parking on either side of the school.  Or you can head south of 25^th Street to 17^th Avenue South and then turn left.  Continue 3-4 blocks and the school will be there. 

 

Staying in Fargo:

For hotels, check out the Fargo/Moorhead Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website at http://www.fargomoorhead.org/lodging/index.php - there are a lot of options in town.
 

The three closest are :
Expressway Inn   ( 701-235-3141)	The Prairie Rose Inn (701-235-3141)	The Rodeway Inn (701-239-8022)
Others that are also not far are:
Country Inn & Suites (701-234-0565)	Best Western-Doublewood Inn (701-235-3333)	Grand Inn (701-232-1321)
Hampton Inn (701-235-5566)	The AmericInn (701-234-9946)	Econo Lodge (701-232-3412)

 

 

 NDEA / FLAND PROGRAM

OCTOBER 23 - 24, 2008 

 

FARGO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

1840 South 15^th Avenue

Fargo, North Dakota 58103

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23^RD

 

11:30 – noon      Registration

11:30 – 5:00         FLAND exhibits, Swap Shop, Silent Auction

                               

FLAND exhibits:  A great opportunity to see and obtain samples of the latest texts, catalogues, and educational materials.

 

FLAND Swap Shop:  Bring photocopies of projects and/or ideas to share with colleagues.  You may also like to bring materials that you no longer need but others may treasure.  Swap shop items are free for the taking!

 

Silent Auction:  Members are invited to contribute items which are silently auctioned to the highest bidder.  Proceeds have helped establish the Graciela Wilborn Memorial Scholarship and now are being used to fund the Herb Boswau Memorial Fund.

 

12:00 – 2 pm       Keynote Speaker – Laura Terrill 

 

Process Reading and Writing: Engaging Students with the Text.  Language teachers do teach reading and writing.

 

2:00 – 2:15           Break

 

2:15 – 4:00           Keynote Speaker – Laura Terrill

 

4:00 – 4:15           Break

 

4:15 – 5:00           Keynote Speaker – Laura Terrill

 

6 :00 – 8:00          FLAND social (location TBA)

  

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24^TH

 

8 – 9:30             FLAND executive committee and advisory board meeting

 

9:30 – 10:15         Follow-up presentation by Laura Terrill:

                   “From Novice to Intermediate:  Creating with Language”

 

This session will look at the key differences between a novice high and an intermediate low and mid learner.  Participants will engage in activities that allow students to use language in creative ways at the intermediate level.

 

10:15 – 10:30      Break – Silent auction, Swap Shop,  FLAND exhibits

 

10:30 – 11:45      FLAND business meeting            

 

11:45 – noon      Silent Auction wrap-up

 

Noon – 1:15       Lunch on your own

 

1:15 – 3:15        Language Sectional meetings

                               

                                                French –

                                                German –

                                                Spanish –

                                                Latin –