Issue #2
Thank you for the brilliant response to our first newsletter, it was a pleasure receiving your emails. We're really pleased that so many of you followed up with your own suggestions, some of which you'll find below.
As we continue to develop and curate content we'd welcome your thoughts on what you find useful and helpful. We hope that there are things that you can include in your teaching or valuable to research, that you'll show to students and colleagues across the campus and even pass on to friends further afield. We'll play a little with the frequency and amount of content too so that it always feels just right.
This is the second of a series of newsletters providing you with a selection of carefully curated links, resources, and useful information to support technology, teaching, learning, and research in Modern Languages.
On Screen
Arlene Blackdeer, a language apprentice for the Hoocak Waaziija Haci Language Division of the Ho-Chunk Nation, shares her experience and community's effort to bring back and revitalize the Ho-Chunk language. This story is part of The Ways, an ongoing series on culture and language from Native communities around the central Great Lakes.
Links and News
SGaawaay K’uuna is a new film in a language that only 20 people in the world can speak fluently, This article includes an interview with a director who says of the endangered Haida language " if our language is this far gone, statistically it’s supposed to be over. But that’s not something that we’re willing to accept.” We'll try to get a screening here at CMU and invite you to join us. Stay tuned.
A second article in The Guardian looks at ways Netflix can support language learning (yippee you might cry!) In fact, a new plugin for your internet browser means that you can include a Netflix film in your teaching.
This week I've been exploring the use of Snapchat for language learning, for many students, this is their primary messaging application and it's worth seeing how groups and stories, in particular, can support their learning. If you're new to Snapchat stories, then there's an article in lifewire that will help you, and secondly, the brilliant Lindsay does Languages website has more info for those seeking to use Snapchat in class.
This brilliant photo series explores the Chinese City of Zahhai, voted "most liveable city" by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Documentary photographer Nikita Teryoshin's series focuses on the people who inhabit this city and her moments from a recent trip.
The Last Column is a project to bring together the final works of some of the 1,337 journalists who have been killed in the line of duty since 1992. It also features videos of family members, friends, and colleagues talking about the journalists, and reading their work.
Finally, I couldn't resist including this amazing Instagram stream of libraries. these photos pay homage to some of the most amazing spaces for learning and research. As we saw on our recent trip to Nantes, when cities invest in their culture and particular centers of learning, then they can form the impetus for wider regeneration.
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