2017 Share Fair @ Indiana University

From Indiana University:

Dear Language Coordinators, Chairs, DGSes, Program Directors, and AIs,   

Join us at the Share Fair as we explore how we can incorporate current events such as politics, sports, movies, music, art, pop culture, Internet memes, technology, etc. into the language classroom. Watch (and participate in) rapid-fire 5-minute presentations from your peers about exciting ways to make the language more relevant and fun to learn by including up-to-the-minute happenings in your language classroom! Refreshments will be provided. 

Please register now to attend at http://bit.do/shfair17 ​ in order to receive an event package which includes a folder, notepad, pen, presentation handouts, and an event program. Online registration will end on Friday, April 7, 2017 at 12:00 noon. Registration at the event is available but does not guarantee an event package.  

Theme of the Share Fair Spring 2017:   

The Here and Now:  

Incorporating Current Events into the Language Classroom 

Special guest presentation: 

 "Teaching the Crisis: Literacy, Current Events and Language Pedagogy"  

by Dr. Franklin L. Hess, Senior Lecturer at Institute for European Studies  

and Coordinator of the Modern Greek Program 

  

Event Time: Friday, April 7, 2017, 2:00-4:30 pm  

Location: Fine Arts 102 

Presenters and Presentation Title

Ryan Lidster   “Rituals as Windows into Community Identity” 

Ángel Milla Muñoz ”Parliament” 

Yewande Aluko “Knowing the World and Learning the Words: Using Current Events to Build Students’ Vocabulary” 

Paul Coates “Twittering in the Classroom”  

Xiaoying Liles “The Farewell Speech” 

Claire Fields “Hot off the Press: Exploring Idioms in the News” 

Juan Morilla  “Una cerveza, una historia” 

Yanting Li “Moving the Academy Award Ceremony into Your Classroom” 

Silja Weber “Text vs. text: What just happened?” 

Marzia Bagnasco “Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Immigration, Empathy, and Film” 

To get an idea of what a Share Fair presentation is like, watch five-minute video recordings from the most recent Share Fair: http://sharefair.indiana.edu/archive/index.html 

About the Share Fair  

The Share Fair originated with and is organized by graduate students—supported by the Center for Language Excellence (CLE), the Center for Language Technology (CeLT), and a faculty support committee—and sponsored by many language programs and departments at IU. This semester, it is sponsored by the Institute for European Studies.  It is one of the eight Share Fair Series Sponsors for Fall 2016 to Spring 2020, along with East Asian Languages and Cultures; French and Italian; Literacy, Culture & Language Education; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Southeast Asian Studies; Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures; and Spanish and Portuguese.  

The  Share Fair Mission Statement  

The IU Foreign/Second Language Share Fair is a semi-annual event that encourages both graduate students and faculty to share inspiring ideas, useful teaching strategies, and new activities that can be widely applied in language classes. Our vision is to create and foster a true community of language educators through interdepartmental collaboration. We believe in the supporting power of networking and learning from peers, and it is our mission to provide a casual and welcoming environment for this unique and worthy  cause. 

   

To help promote this event, please consider:  

1) Forwarding this e-mail to the language instructors in your department.  

2) Contacting AIs in your department and encouraging them to attend (and hopefully present in  the future).  

3) Mentoring younger AIs in your program through the application process for the next Share Fairs. 

4) Printing a copy or two of the attached flyer and putting them up around your AI offices.  

5) Coming to the event yourself and inviting your fellow instructors to join you.  

   

Thank you all for your continuing support!  

   

Best,  

The Share Fair Organizing Committee   

shfair@indiana.edu   ​

Let us know what you think!