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Events › Kyushu / Okinawa › Nagasaki › October 2007 › event

Using Online Video Slideshows as a Tool for English Learning; and Teaching the Strategies of Speaking.

Speaker: Sergio Mazzarelli, Kwassui Women 's College; Alastair Graham-Marr, Tokai University/ABAX Publishers.

Date: Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: Nagasaki

Venue: Dejima Koryu Kaikan, 4F (this is the large white building next to Dejima Wharf and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; take #5 streetcar to Shiminbyoinmae stop, or take #1 streetcar to Dejima stop.)

Description: In the first part of the meeting, Mazzarelli will report on his own experiences in letting college students create video slideshows and sharing them through the Internet with students in other countries. He will also introduce a website he has created for teachers interested in sharing their students ' slideshows. In the latter half, Graham-Marr, author of Communication Spotlight, a new text that teaches students how to use certain strategies, will examine the reasons for teaching strategies and examine the sort of strategies he argues should be taught.

P.S. ABOUT ELECTIONS FOR 2008: from August through October, we are interested in hearing from you if you are a JALT member, and would like to help as a partner in our local chapter executive in 2008. Yes, nominations, recommendations and persuasions are now open. Please contact us anytime for more information or to submit names! Please see our current list at our website.

Cost for JALT members: free

Cost for JALT non-members: 1000 yen

Organization: Nagasaki Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

This URL: http://www.eltcalendar.com/events/details/3716

Contact Nagasaki JALT Chapter:

URL: http://www.kyushuelt.com/jalt/nagasaki.html

Melodie Cook:

m.cook@sun.ac.jp

Tim Allan:

allan@kwassui.ac.jp

Upcoming Events for Nagasaki JALT Chapter:

Saturday, December 20th, 2008