Felix Kronenberg – Digital StoryTelling as Participatory Language Learning

Felix Kronenberg (Assistant Professor and Director of the Language Learning Center, Rhodes College) will present a recent grant-funded digital storytelling initiative at Rhodes College. His presentation will cover various aspects of digital storytelling in the L2 curriculum, such as identity and identities formation, automaticity, motivation, individualization and individual learner differences, agency, multimodality, learner anxiety and “losing face,” narrative structure, and assessment.

More info on the speaker: http://www.rhodes.edu/modernlanguages/21054_21066.asp

Please join us this Friday, December 9th, 12pm-1pm PST in the LARC BlackBoardCollaborate System.

What is SWALLT Online?
SWALLT Online is a monthly web conference given by professionals in the field of language learning technology for the benefit of SWALLT members. These web conferences allow for detailed views on exciting projects and the latest innovations in the field and are always accompanied by informal but rigorous discussion.

BlackBoard Collaborate Instructions (Headset recommended)
1. Go to this link.  http://tinyurl.com/6vn5ors
2. Enter a name in the Session Login and click on Log In button. The Client will launch. You may need to update your java runtime environment and you may be prompted to indicate the speed of your network connection.
3. After launching, you should appear in the SWALLT Web Conference Room.

Evan Rubin of LARC has posted a BlackBoard Collaborate log in tutorial at the following link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtkpEt2QDY&feature=related