FLTEACH: Widgets, Twitter, Boards & Mail for Online Professional Development

Robert Ponterio, SUNY Cortland & Jean LeLoup, USAFA
Presentation at ACTFL 2013; Orlando, FL
22 November 2013

http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/actfl2013.html

1. FLTEACH:  Who, What and Why?

• Origin & Description of FLTEACH - Feb. Coming up on 20 years.
• http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/
  

2. Subscribing to FLTEACH & managing subscriptions

• Computer address   [listserv@listserv.buffalo.edu]
• Posting address   [FLTEACH@listserv.buffalo.edu]
• Moderator address (a real human here) flteach@cortland.edu
• Regular email
• MIME DIGEST (email) [List Options] sample digest
• HTML INDEX (email) sample index ; sample post
• Web interface

3. FLTEACH Web site

• Subscription data (296,314 messages from Feb. 1994 until Nov. 1, 2013)
• Collections of resources for FL professionals
• Archives (reading & searching archives)
• Biographical database
• FL Methods Syllabi
• SLA bibliography
• Bulletin board

4. Recent Updates

• Widgets
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Responsive design

5. FLTEACH professional development uses

• What types of discussions? Common core, use of non-fiction in language teaching and preservice teacher training
• Other common uses (see table)

6. Preservice teacher education

• Wiki : Suggestions for Appropriate Assignments for Students in Second Language Teaching Methods Classes (sample)

7. Question

FLTEACH, 2013