Special Events

SDSU selects Multiple Horizon Wimba Producs for Online Education

SDSU intends to use Horizon Wimba's tools to hold live online classes and office hours and to add online voice into most courses taught through its Language Acquisition Resource Center. To learn more about this project: http://horizonwimba.com/about/press_detail.php?id=85

LARC Outreach

• Dissemination of LARC information
  Outreach disseminates general information on LARC activities resulting in much correspondence from people interested in participating in LARC events and collaborating on projects.
   
  
• San Diego Unified School District Partnership Program
  LARC has entered into formal partnerships through the San Diego Unified School District's Partnership Program. These programs provide resources as available to schools' language programs. Currently, we have partnerships with the Language Academy and Albert Einstein Charter School Academy.
   
  
• Professional Organizations
  Through participation and leadership in various professional organizations in the language teaching profession, LARC assesses needs and identifies available services to support various programs and to ensure articulation between these organizations and the local teaching community. LARC works closely with and the Outreach Director serves on the Board of the Foreign Language Council of San Diego and the California Language Teachers Association. In addition we frequently work with the San Diego International Languages Network, the local arm of the California Foreign Language Project, various local arms of American Association of Teachers of French and German, the Council for the Teaching of Filipino Language and Culture, and the Filipino American Education Association. Nationally, we collaborate on projects with the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages.
   
  
• Heritage Languages
  The Director of Outreach meets with community groups monthly to plan and implement after-school language programs for less commonly taught languages. Currently, three sites teach Arabic and will open September 17, 2005 in El Cajon, Clairmont and Chula Vista, one teaches Kurdish and is open year-round, one teaches Mixtec, English and Spanish to migrant workers in Oceanside and two more sites for youth will open this fall in Linda Vista and Oceanside, a Punjabi school will open in Poway August 28, 2005, two sites for Turkish will be re-opened this year with regular and new input from LARC. Discussions are underway to create programs for Bulgarian and Vietnamese.
   
  
• Publications
  Articles may be reviewed upon publication at the web sites of the above-mentioned professional organizations FLCSD and CLTA.
   
  
• Professional Organizations
  LARC's work is profiled through the writing of newsletter and newspaper articles for the Foreign Language Council of San Diego, FLCSD, (4 times per year), the California Language Teachers Association, CLTA, (3-4 times per year), the San Diego Union-Tribune, and various community newsletters and papers as requested. LARC is represented on the Board of FLCSD in monthly meetings and at its professional updates and annual conference, at Board meetings of CLTA four times per year and at its conference and at monthly meetings of The California Filipino Teachers of Language and Culture (CTFLC), and at monthly meetings of Filipino Language Movement (FiLM) Summer Institutes and other events and projects are profiled in these articles and meetings.
   
  
• California Educational Programs
  The Director of Outreach works with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) and the state legislature to inform development of policies and procedures for teachers of the less commonly taught languages. This work has led to the newest version of the Russian CSET, the anticipated creation of a new CSET for Filipino, and an agreement to create CSETs for critical languages and for languages that have significant populations in California.
   
  
• Year of Languages Activities
  The Director of Outreach plans programs to mark the Year of Languages in collaboration with the Foreign Language Council of San Diego. These include the following local celebrations: a Foreign Language Booth at the Del Mar County Fair , Kick-off for World Language Teachers and the World Languages Career Day at the San Diego County Office of Education, the Welcoming of new United States Citizens, a Reading in World Languages program at a few San Diego area libraries, and student contests.