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Where: CSL
Room: Cobb 201
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm
The Center for the Study of Languages invites you to attend a panel discussion about the uses of student video projects in the foreign language class. The panelists are teachers of language from several departments at the University of Chicago: Jason Grunebaum (Hindi); Lidwina Van den [...]

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Where: CSL Room: Cobb 210
Date: November 4, 2009
Time: 2:30 p.m.
The Center for the Study of Languages will demo recently purchased Sanyo digital camcorders. These video cameras replace the older Canon and JVC cameras, and like those will be used for pedagogical materials development projects and student class projects.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:30 pm [...]

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Keep an eye on the development of various podcasts (audio and video), blogs, and more for use in language learning.
http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html has a nice listing of some podcasts.
Also open iTunes on your computer and do a search for your languages in Podcasts at the iTunes store as well as new iTunesU offerings.

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I saw a post about this website recently:
The premier Russian TV videos site, available in broadband, is on the Ethnic
TV Network at:
http://www.etvnet.ca/
Superb, full-screen videos. Thousands of taped programs available in the
archive. Thsi is a commercial site. Cost: $10 for 20 hours a month, $20 for
50 hours a month, $40 for unlimited viewing.

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Since June, the CSL has had DishNetwork satellite dishes ready to receive foreign language programming. We tested the system with German, Polish, and Russian television during the summer courses. We’ll be adding more programming in Autumn quarter. If you have an interest in programming we aren’t currently offering, talk to your language teacher, language coordinator, [...]

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