Making links with China
Jess McCulloch
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, I’m in China with 20 kids and 3 other staff for the next 5 or so weeks. In case you want to keep up to date with what we are doing – and so I can avoid long group emails – I’ll be blogging about it all at http://www.technochinese.com - what the kids are up to, how we are going, how their projects are taking shape, how they are coping with being away from home for so long (6 weeks) etc. I’ll be blogging about my personal reflections and the project I’m doing (using mobile phones to take pics and send them back to a class in Australia with accompanying Chinese language recordings), as well as all the technology I’m using (you should see the list of stuff I brought with me!) at
http://www.technolote.com
We are staying at Nanjing Number 1 Middle School (In some rather nice boarding house rooms – the kids are very grateful they have Western style toilets!). Nanjing is just a few hours by train inland from Shanghai. We will be visiting Suzhou (between Nanjing and Shanghai) in the middle of the trip, and Beijing at the end.
I’m hoping to be writing almost everyday, but will just have to see how that pans out – and if there is reliable internet access. I’m also hoping to get the kids to do some blogging using their blog spaces on the ning network they have. That site is http://gariwerdprogram.ning.com – and it is set to private at the moment, but I’ll be changing all of that once I’ve got a few other things sorted out.
I’m hoping to be blogging, podcasting, taking photos and videos and sharing them all as much as possible. Feel free to spread the word and for those of you who are teachers, if we have access to skype it would be great to get some link ups with classes happening. We’ll be here in China until October 18th – with internet access until the 14th thereabouts. If you have classes – maybe we could do a ‘Request a Photo’ project or something like that – something simple and easy. The kids here are mostly from Year 10, so 15/16 years old. Time zone in China is GMT+8.
Stay out of trouble – we will try to :-)
Zaijian!
Jess
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Matthew Absalom
As the newly installed editor of Babel, I would be very happy to receive written reports of the investigations carried out as part of the PSP. Please visit www.afmlta.asn.au and click on the link to “journal” in the banner at the top of the page – this will take you to details about what is required for publication.
Another outlet for your investigation reports is to present them at the AFMTLA conference to be held in Sydney in July 2009.
Go to www.mltansw.asn.au/afmlta2009.htm for further information.
Best,
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Matthew Absalom
Editor, Babel
Italian Studies Program
School of Languages and Linguistics
The University of Melbourne
Warton, Amanda J
Hi Matthew
I would like to have a go at contributing but I may need a little help as I have never done this before. Is there a deadline to have the article in by.
Also since you teach Italian .........
I am currently doing my final subject of my 4th year at UNISA with Enza Tudini and I am doing a research project following on from the Italian cinema studies course last semester and have chosen to look at Federico Fellini but I need a focus question for my project ......any ideas or suggestions.
Cheers
Amanda Warton
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Matthew Absalom
Thanks for your email. The reports are not very long – you could simply use the template for the investigation report and just have a go at writing it up...
Fellini: how about images of women? Or, depictions of Italy? Does that help?
M
On 16/9/08 9:14 PM, "Warton, Amanda J" <warton....@edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
Hi Matthew
I would like to have a go at contributing but I may need a little help as I have never done this before. Is there a deadline to have the article in by.
Also since you teach Italian .........
I am currently doing my final subject of my 4th year at UNISA with Enza Tudini and I am doing a research project following on from the Italian cinema studies course last semester and have chosen to look at Federico Fellini but I need a focus question for my project ......any ideas or suggestions.
Cheers
Amanda Warton
From: psplj...@googlegroups.com [mailto:psplj...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Absalom
Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 8:12 PM
To: psplj...@googlegroups.com
Subject: {PSPL Journey} Publishing your investigations and presentation opportunity
Dear PSP-ers,
As the newly installed editor of Babel, I would be very happy to receive written reports of the investigations carried out as part of the PSP. Please visit www.afmlta.asn.au and click on the link to “journal” in the banner at the top of the page – this will take you to details about what is required for publication.
Another outlet for your investigation reports is to present them at the AFMTLA conference to be held in Sydney in July 2009.
Go to www.mltansw.asn.au/afmlta2009.htm for further information.
Best,
--
Dowse, Lisa L
Hi Matthew,
As the regional LOTE Project Officer for the Southern Region of DEECD, I think it would be great to ask teachers in my region if they are happy to present their projects at either network meetings within the region or at regional PDs. The region would acknowledge the teachers’ work as presenters which could then be evidence for their performance plans. Does this fit in with the PSPL guidelines?
If it’s OK, can you let me know and then anyone in SMR who is interested, can just let me know.
Cheers,
Lisa.