FLEX of Central Virginia - Connecting World Language Teachers

Connecting World Language Teachers

FLEX connects Central Virginia world language faculty at all levels.

New Project!

FLEX is promoting student exchanges between classrooms at all levels. Read all about our project in the Blog.

To get started:

Join the School-College Exchange Group
Post your needs and offers in the Forum on the Main Page
Directly contact a NING member with a specific request or as a volunteer.
Post your ideas about the project on the Group's Discussion Board.

Events

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Groups

Early Language Learning

2 members
Advocacy Group

1 member

FLEX français

8 members
German Educators

4 members

ESL Eduacators

3 members
Less Commonly Taught Lan…

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Welcome to FLEX of Central Virginia!

Check here often for events, opportunities, and resources related to languages and cultures in Central Virginia and beyond.

Posting Events All members of this community are welcome to post events of interest. There are two places to post: the Events Calendar and the "Richmond Area Cultural Events" forum. Members can track forum postings via RSS.

You will need an image to post an event to the calendar. If you don't have one handy, go to Photos and use the little cartoon posted there.

Forum

Richmond Area Cultural Events 17 Replies

Please post Richmond area Cultural events... anything. If it's a big thing, put in the calendar maybe.

Tags: events

Started by Thomas Sones. Last reply by Jennifer Shotwell Apr 1, 2010.

National Foreign Language Week 8 Replies

Here are a few ideas I put together for our Language Dept. I just wanted to share them with everyone and see what everyone else was planning on doing.Merci!Mlle ShehaneContinue

Tags: Week, Language, Foreign, National

Started by Catherine M Shehane. Last reply by Diana Feb 23, 2010.

Speaking Assessments 15 Replies

I find that technology has given me the opportunity to assess student's speaking abilities in new ways (VoiceThread, gCast). What are some ways that you assess student's oral use of the language,…Continue

Tags: technology, speaking, assessment

Started by Carey Pohanka. Last reply by Dejiang Hu Nov 2, 2009.

Blog Posts

How To Start a Graduate School Essay?

?Do you commence with a story?

?Do you begin with a reflection on the focus of your forthcoming graduate studies?

?Do you start at the beginning? And where exactly is that?

If you want your graduate essay to grab the attention of the graduate admission representative, then keep reading this article…

The graduate admissions committee is looking for a snapshot of you –

?Where… Continue

Posted by Maria Pittman on October 2, 2009 at 1:01am

About the FLEX Project

Recruiting and Preparing the Next Generation of Foreign Language Educators While Giving Classroom Teachers a Helping Hand-

Based on FLAVA 2008 Panel

Kathy Murphy-Judy Thomas Sones Sharon Scinicariello

Why we need this project?

K-MAT education needs to strengthen FL connections and the ability to look ahead and because there is a disconnect in the cycle of learning from secondary school to college to teacher preparation to teaching.

Early… Continue

Posted by Thomas Sones on January 25, 2009 at 5:00pm

Job listings-

Do you want a job? Do you know of an opening? Please post wants and needs here. Please update the blog as jobs are filled or taken. Thanks.

Posted by Thomas Sones on November 17, 2008 at 5:23pm — 5 Comments

A Case for Foreign Language SOL Tests

I've been giving a lot of thought about SOL Testing, so I've added this blog so that everyone can sound off on the topic. Please be professional.

Posted by Thomas Sones on November 12, 2008 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Practical ideas for the classroom.

Hi everyone,
We all have so many good ideas, so let's share. Is that not the point of FLEX. Please post descriptions of sucessful classroom activites.
Thanks
Thomas

Posted by Thomas Sones on November 5, 2008 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

Useful Resources to Explore

The IALLT Learning Ning

The IALLT Learning Ning is a place for teachers to explore digital tools for language learning. You need not be an IALLT member to join; the Mid-Atlantic (MAALLT) and Southeast (SEALLT) regional groups invite you to participate in their activities.

MHz WorldView

MHz WorldView is a digital service of the Community Ideas Stations (PBS in Central Virginia) that provides international television programming accessible to English speakers. (Programming is either subtitled or in English, but the perspective is international.) The schedule is here; more about WorldView is here. Efforts to help teachers use this programming are underway and will be announced in this ning.

Classroom 2.0

The social networking site for those interested in using Web 2.0 technologies for teaching.