FFotW: La Rochelle

Vieux Port - France (La Rochelle), originally uploaded by Chez Julius.

Wouldn't you love to hone your French language skills in beautiful La Rochelle?

Well, you can! La Rochelle is one of our many Study Abroad opportunities at CofC. Contact Dr. Tefo Attafi for details. Dr. Attafi will be giving an information session on the upcoming trip on Wednesday, October 21 at 3:00 pm in the main classroom of the Language Resource Center, ECTR 225.

Thanks to Julius Singara, Chez Julius on Flickr, for sharing this great picture of the port's two towers with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (meaning he asks, please give him attribution if you use the photo, and please make no commercial or derivative uses of the image).

Language Lab + LITE Workshops Week of 9/28/09

Hi, there language fans. The LRC reminds you about our workshops for the week of 9/28:

LRC Session:
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 3:00 PM
Wimba Voice Tools
ECTR 225

LITE Session:
Thursday, October 1, 2009 @ 6:00 PM
Finding Information/Library Resources
Addlestone Library Room 122

LRC Session:
Friday, October 2, 2009 @ 3:00 PM
Blogging Language & Culture on CofC WordPress
ECTR 225

Flickr Find of the Week: Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama

Isabel Allende and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, originally uploaded by Bill Liao.

For our first Flickr Find of the Week this semester, how would you have like to have dinner with Chilean writer Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama? As with all FFofW images, this great pic is shared with a Creative Commons license, this one by Bill Liao. A CC license is a type of copyright by which the creator declares his or her wish that their work be shared openly. Thanks, Bill!

Those of you who attended our Welcome Week celebration got to watch and discuss Allende's Tales of Passion TED Talk. If you weren't there, catch up on what you missed below. TED shares our commitment to the open exchange of ideas!

First Week Events in the LRC!

Come get your Wimba and your Welcome Week on in the Language Lab!

Monday, Aug 24 10:00-12:00: McGraw Hill's Spanish line on Quia.
Monday, Aug 24 12:00-4:00: Eat & Greet with TED Talks from Allende, Davis + Pinker.

Tuesday, Aug 25 2:00-3:00: Wimba (Online) Workshop
Tuesday, Aug 25 3:00-4:00: Wimba (via WebCT) Workshop

Thursday, Aug 27 9:00-11:00: Open Session on Wimba + Audacity

Come join us and learn something!

Ukraine's Got Talent

Below is an amazing sand painting performance by Ukraine's Got Talent winner Kseniya Simonova. If your Ukrainian is rusty or you're too in awe of the images to follow the story they weave, the animation is a tribute to the Ukrainians who perished in World War II. It's no wonder there's hardly a dry eye in the audience.

Welcome Week in the Language Lab

On Monday, August 24, all are encouraged to come by the Language Resource Center in ECTR 225 as we watch TED talks on language and culture. We'll watch and discuss talks by linguist Stephen Pinker on language and the mind; ethnobotanist Wade Davis (author of the Serpent and the Rainbow) on the world's disappearing cultural diversity; Chilean author Isabel Allende talks about living passionately in the face of adversity... and more! We'll have food and beverages, good folks and good fun.

The event is aimed at students, but faculty and staff are certainly encouraged to drop in as well! We're a community, join us!

Maestro Abreu: Colma mi corazon de júbilo

TED Prize recipient Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu, who has spent years teaching music to poor children in Venezuela's El Sistema youth orchestra, makes a wish:


”I wish you would help create and document a special training program for at least 50 gifted young musicians, passionate for their art and for social justice, and dedicated to developing El Sistema in the US and in other countries.”

See more: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jose_abreu_on_kids_transformed_by_music.html

Read more: http://tedchris.posterous.com/#ixzz0FQJZZGYY&B