I have spent the last two days at the 2013 National Conference of the Association of University Language Centres, which took place at Durham University. I took most of my notes using Twitter, i.e. sharing them straight away. I have created a storify to share them, see this link.
Useful links from the conference:
- Language Box: Teaching resources for languages
- Language Rich Europe: promotes multilingualism
- Association for Language Learning: “the major subject association for those involved in teaching foreign languages at all levels”
- Routes into languages: “a consortium of universities working together with schools and colleges, to enthuse and encourage people to study languages”
- The Higher Education Academy - events page: “ champions excellent learning and teaching in higher education”. Free events.
- University Council of Modern Languages: investigates why and how languages are taught
- Screencastomatic: free and easy-to-use screen capture tool
- Jing: screen shots and screen casts for online conversations
- VoiceThread: voice recorder and collaboration tool
- StudyBlue: flashcards
- Google apps for education
Words and expressions that I learned during keynote speech by Steven Fawkes:
- supper in ambigu = 45 hot dishes and 15 cold dishes
- dashelled = drenched
- drury lane -> drue = mistress
- muckinder = handkerchief
And my personal favourite:
- crotch-trolling = angling for pike
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