NEWSLETTER!
Volume 26
Number 1
September 2013
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Welcome back! We hope everyone had a wonderful summer break and a good Labor Day
weekend and that we now return energized, enthusiastic, and ready to meet all the challenges that
will come to us this year.
Everyone is encouraged to forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to
attend to someone else in your school or county. If you are the only person who attends from
your school or county, please send personally or ask a coordinator to send an e-mail with an
announcement and this newsletter to your list of FL and ESL teachers. Consider especially new
teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Our membership and participation is holding
steady, but we would be delighted to have new faces and new ideas.
As always we will keep track of attendance for the year and will distribute certificates
verifying attendance at meetings. These may be used to request CEU credit from your
school system.
Please read all that follows carefully to see the great presentations and workshops that will
be available this year.
Dates for our Professional Development Meetings for 2013-2014
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September 21
November 16
February 1
March 22
8:45 - 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
8:45- 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Leutze Hall 136
Leutze Hall 136
Leutze Hall 136
SEPTEMBER MEETING
September’s program will include (with approximate times):
8:45
Breakfast snacks and registration
9:00
Business meeting and announcements
Please bring announcements of school changes, cultural events, workshops and
conferences, etc. We will hear a report from the treasurer, discuss committee work and
scholarships, and request volunteers for committees.
9:30
Announcement of Latino Book Club Award – Amrita Das, UNCW
9:40
Update and Review of the Wiki – Ashlee Balena, UNCW
9:50
Engaging Students in the Critical Examination of Culture – L. J. Randolph, UNCW
10:45 Refreshment Break and Display of Bookmarks
11:00 Choice of workshops:
Blackboard Learn for the Language Educator – Amanda Boomershine, UNCW
Blackboard Learn is the teacher’s helpful friend at UNCW. Those planning to
attend this session should bring a laptop or arrange to share with another attendee.
Eight laptops will be available from the FLRC. Please let us know if you want to
use one of these. E-mail mountj@uncw.edu .
Going Google! – Rachel Hatfield and Amanda Holliday, Cape Fear Academy
For K-12 teachers and anyone else interested. Rachel and Amanda will introduce
a Google learning management system for teachers. This session will be held in
the FL Resource Center with computers provided.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY TO BE ANNOUNCED BY LATINO BOOK CLUB/ Bookmarks
for sale: The Latino Book Club will have bookmarks available for sale at $1.00 each. Bring
pocket change and extra dollars! (Remember these from last year?) Profits from the bookmarks
and other fund-raising activities of the club buy books for school children. Amrita Das, sponsor
of the club, will announce a grant that the group will give this year for a public school project.
Application forms will be available.
PROGRAMS AND SPEAKERS ON NOVEMBER 16:
Using Graphic Blogs in Your Beginner-Level Class – Marcio Moreno, UNCW
“Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You” – Ashlee Balena, UNCW
Enjoy this activity as you get to know fellow teachers better. Plan to adapt it to
your own classroom and your target language.
A presentation on China (title to be announced) - Xia Wei (Richard), Visiting
Chinese Instructor, UNCW.
SPEAKER FOR FEBRUARY 1:
We are delighted to have Ken Stewart, Chapel Hill HS, join us in February. We will
announce the topic of his presentation or workshop as soon as possible. Ken is a master
teacher who has received numerous awards including the 2006 ACTFL National Foreign
Language Teacher of the Year.
SPEAKERS FOR MARCH 22:
Report on the UNC World Language Exchange – Raymond Burt, UNCW
North Carolina Virtual Public School – Ellen Minter Hart, (NCVPS) Curriculum and
Instruction, Division Director, Arts Education and World Languages
YEARLY DUES: Please be ready to pay CFFLC dues at the September meeting. Yearly dues
are $15 ($5 for full-time students). Checks should be made to Cape Fear Foreign Language
Collaborative. Dues may be mailed at any time to our treasurer Julie Bordo, 202 Wayne Drive,
Wilmington, NC 28403. We depend on your dues to help with miscellaneous expenses and with
the scholarships.
SPONSORS: CFFLC has been sponsored for twenty-five years by the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In recent years,
we have also received support from the Women’s Studies and Resource Center. We are
currently seeking additional campus support since the restructuring of some offices at UNCW
brought an end to the Office of Public Service and Continuing Studies, an office that had also
given support in the past.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We gave two
scholarships to UNCW students last year and two to graduating seniors in high schools for a total
of $1000 awarded.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
For Cinematique Films, see http://whqr.org/topic/cinematique-wilmington-film-series
For UNCW Presents, see http://uncw.edu/presents/currentseason.html
Foreign Language Association of NC: October 10-12, 2013. Winston-Salem, NC
Latino Festival: Saturday, November 9, 2013. Ogden Park, Wilmington, NC
SCOLT Conference: March 13-15, 2014. Memphis, TN
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please contact Joann Mount at mountj@uncw.edu in the event that you
have professional information and announcements that you would like distributed to our
membership.
Planning to see you at the September 21 meeting!
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu