NEWSLETTER!
Volume 24
Number 2
November 2011
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Dates for our Professional Development Meetings for 2011 -2012
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November 5
January 28
March 24
8:45 - 12:00
8:45- 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Our September meeting was informative and enjoying… Presentations were given by
Edelmira Segovia (Centro Hispano, UNCW); Amrita Das, Lizzy Irvin and Scott Juall (FLL,
UNCW); and Martina Jonsson (Friends School of Wilmington). Bookmarks were sold to
support the book outreach project sponsored by the Latino Book Club and CFFLC added a small
donation. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Our November meeting will include (as always times are approximate!):
8:45
Breakfast Snacks and Registration
9:00
Business Meeting
9:30
Presentation of Scholarships to UNCW students
9:40
“VRAK: A How-to Session for Using Student Learning Preferences in the FL
Classroom.” - Christi Lea, Hoggard HS, and Rachel Hatfield, Cape Fear Academy.
10:45 Swap of Ideas, Activities, and Resources - Dave Graber, Catherine Beaman, Mercedes
Meier, Holly Marshburn, Joann Mount, Who else? If you didn’t RSVP, but have
something to share, please bring it and we will fit you in!
For January we have scheduled two speakers… Glynis Cowell, Director of the Spanish
Language Program at UNC Chapel Hill and author of Spanish textbooks, will give a workshop
on facilitating speaking in the classroom, and Donna McQueen, French teacher at Ashley HS,
will speak on her study trip to Senegal. Put January 28 on your calendar now! Both should be
excellent programs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Latino Festival will be held on Saturday, November 12 from 11:00-8:00. Food, booths,
activities for children, music. New location: Ogden Park.
Register now for the SLINKI Conference to be held at UNCW on January 21, 2012. SLINKI
stands for Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina. See
http://people.uncw.edu/boomershinea/SLINKI2012.htm for more information and registration
form. Early registration is $25.00. A real bargain!
Intercultural Week at UNCW will be February 13-18. The Festival will be held on Saturday,
February 18 from 11:00 – 3:00. CFFLC will have a booth.
Cucalorus Film Festival is scheduled for November 10-13. Rachel Hatfield sent the following
links to films that would be interesting to our group. Thanks, Rachel. Please remember that we
cannot guarantee that these are suitable for all audiences.
Brazilian: http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1590
http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1573
French: http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1460
Italian: http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1545
Spanish-related: http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1503
http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1570
http://cucalorus.org/film_Detail.asp?id=1416
From here on in the newsletter, the announcements are important, but most
of you have read them before… just skim if you are an old member, read it
carefully if you are a new member or are thinking of joining us!
If you have not paid dues this year… 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 Julie Bordo, 202 Wayne Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403. We have been fortunate to have
approximately 40-45 members paying dues in the last few years. We are still hoping to hit 50!
INCREASING MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE: Everyone is encouraged to
forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to someone else in your school
or county. Let’s see if we can’t increase our membership bit by bit by introducing our
colleagues to our programs and activities. If you are the only person who attends from your
school or county, please send an e-mail announcement to your list of FL teachers. Consider
especially new teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Some teachers may not know
that the CFFLC exists! We all have so much support and knowledge to share. Don’t forget
that we 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.
SPONSORS: CFFLC has been sponsored for twenty-three 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 Office of Public Service and Continuing Studies.
Funding support has also been received from the Women’s Studies and Resource Center at
UNCW for three years.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We gave two
scholarships to UNCW students last year and one to a graduating senior in high school for a total
of $800 awarded. Thanks to all faculty who made nominations. We will hope to bring in
enough from dues and our fund-raising raffle and to give the same scholarship amounts this year.
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.
Hoping to see you soon!
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu