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Spanish 1 (Thursday Feb 16th, 2012: 1-2pm) (Sendy)

Feb 16th, 2012 by

I was really happy to see new and returning faces 🙂 Hope that everyone had as much fun as I did. For next week please look over the short introductions as we will start with them and then add to them and start new ones. I have posted here what we went over in class. Please remember there are time when there are no direct translations, I have done my best to translate them directly for you so they might sound funny in English. See you all next week 🙂

Click on any of the three pictures and they will get bigger 🙂

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Spring 2012 Class Schedule is Posted!

Feb 10th, 2012 by

CLASSES BEGIN NEXT WEEK, FEBRUARY 13, 2012!

You do not have to sign-up for classes, you just need to show-up. Attend as many different classes as you would like to.

Language Day/Time Room Teacher(s)
Arabic 1 Fridays, 2pm-3pm A200 Waleed
Arabic 2 Fridays, 4pm-5pm A201 Adnan
Cantonese Fridays, 1pm-2pm A202 Karen
Farsi Fridays, 1pm-2pm A205 Arash & Olga
French A Thurs, 6:30-7:30pm A205 Kasey
French B Fridays, 2pm-3pm A201 Sarah H.
German Fridays, 11am-12pm A200 Jennie
Japanese Fridays, 3pm-4pm B107 Karen & Bryan
Korean A Wed, 6pm-7pm A205 Hala
Korean B Fridays, 4pm-5pm A200 Ben
Mandarin (Beg/Int) Tuesdays, 12pm-1pm B107 Caitlin & Angelica
Mandarin (Int/Adv) Mondays, 6pm-7pm A201 Karen & Vicky
Chinese Cuisine Thurs, 1pm-2pm A200 Robin
Chinese Culture Fridays, 3pm-4pm A205 Yinghua & Sisi
Russian A Mondays, 6pm-7pm A202 James
Russian B Fridays, 5pm-6pm A200 Vita
Shanghainese Thurs, 12pm-1pm A200 Angelica
Spanish 1 Thurs, 1pm-2pm A201 Sendy
Spanish 2A Tuesdays, 1pm-2pm A201 Celia
Spanish 2B Fridays, 1pm-2pm A200 Maiya & Bryan
Spanish Comm. Thurs, 6pm-7pm A202 Caroline
Turkish Tues, 12pm-1pm A200 JoDee
Thai Tues, 12pm-1pm A201 Rawiwan & Yam
Tech 4 Teachers Fridays, 2pm-3pm B208 Sarah

Key:
Level 1: Little/no previous experience with the language
Level 2: Some/a lot of experience with the language
A & B Classes: Just a way to differentiate between two or more of the same class

If you have questions about classes, please contact us at miisbuild@gmail.com.
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We hope to see you in class 🙂

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Course Schedule will be posted this weekend (02/11)

Feb 6th, 2012 by

Thank you to all of you who completed our BUILD surveys, attended our Interest Meetings, and for your enthusiasm for BUILD. This week we will be finalizing a class schedule as we try to align teachers’ availability, student availability, and room reservations. Check back with us this weekend and we promise to do our best to have a FINAL course schedule posted!

We appreciate your patience 🙂

Thank you!

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Spring 2012: Class schedule coming soon!

Jan 19th, 2012 by

Hello fellow BUILDers! Your BUILD officers are hard at work gathering teachers, advertising, and compiling class schedules. We hope to have a complete class schedule listed by Friday, February 10th, 2012. Classes will begin on Monday, February 13th. Please stay tuned! If you are interested in teaching, please fill out this short survey: Spring 2012 Teacher Survey. Oh, and don’t forget to tell someone else about the awesomeness of BUILD.

If you are interested, or know someone who is interested, in learning with BUILD, we also have a Spring 2012 Student Survey. Our goal is to match the preferences of teachers and students to make BUILD work for everyone!

We’ll see you in February!

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B.U.I.L.D. is back for Spring 2012!

Jan 17th, 2012 by

Hope everyone enjoyed the winter break!

Spring 2012 semester is coming up soon and we want you to join us in the adventures of language teaching! If you are interested in teaching with us in the spring, please fill out our Spring 2012 Teacher Survey.

We will be holding two B.U.I.L.D. Interest Meetings on Thursday, February 2 at 12:15pm and Friday, February 3 at 3:30pm. The location will be announced later. Please come to either one or both to learn more about teaching and learning with B.U.I.L.D.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email us at MIISBUILD@gmail.com.

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Thanks for a great BUILD semester!

Dec 4th, 2011 by

Thanks to all of our hard working teachers and students who made this semester so successful!

The class schedule for next semester will change, based on input from both teachers and students. We also hope to add a few new languages (like Turkish!) and will certainly continue will most of the languages we offered this fall. The new schedule should be come available in early February. Keep an eye on the blog for updates.

Please click here to take just a couple minutes to complete this short survey! It will give us important information on how to improve BUILD for future semesters.

Happy Holidays and have a nice break! We will see you in February!

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Today’s final class of the semester for Friday French 2 at 1 PM

Nov 18th, 2011 by

Thank you to everybody for your attendance- physical and mental- this semester.  It has been a real pleasure to work with this class.

Today’s lesson focused on the holidays.  We learned the vocab for Christmas, Hanukkah, and for New Year’s celebrations.  Everyone also took a turn describing their plans for the Thanksgiving holiday.  We ended by reading a couple of short stories written by French school children about snowmen (bonhommes de neige). If anyone who missed would like to have the handouts, please email me and I’ll happily send them along to you.

Hope everyone has a great fin de semestre and wonderful holidays.

Leslie

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Spanish 1a Thursday (November 17th, 2011)

Nov 17th, 2011 by

Please click here for the link to today’s class notes 🙂

And also, we are not meeting next week as it is Thanksgiving (gobble gobble!) but we are planning to have one last class on Thursday, December 1st.

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Spanish 2B, Thursdays noon to 12:50 pm B107

Nov 13th, 2011 by

As part of my CALL and Pedagogy class I have been learning how to run a moodle site from the teacher’s perspective. As a result, I have set up a moodle site for our BUILD class, in order to give me some hands-on experience with real information.

I invite everyone interested to check it out.

http://www.edumoodle18.org/login/index.php

You can sign in as a guest for our purposes. After you click on “log in as guest”, click on the “courses” button on the left hand side.

Next click on “BUILD Spanish 2B” and you should be in our very own moodle!


I am putting all of our resources that we have been using (and will be using) in class on the moodle.

I would love to hear any feedback you may have for me. 🙂 This is a new learning experience that I want to make the most of!

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French 2 Friday 11/11/11

Nov 11th, 2011 by

Today we started by playing a fun game where we matched jokes with the punchlines. Some examples:

-Quatre singes sont dans une voiture.  Qui conduit la voiture?  Celui qui a le permis.

-Une maman dit à une autre maman: Moi, mon bébé il marche depuis trois mois.  Et l’autre lui répond: Oh la, il doit être loin maintenant.

Then we watched a Professeur Gamberge cartoon on the topic of the flu.  We read along with the text while watching it again and then we talked about the vocab.  You can watch the short, two minute cartoon here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Om55b4Kdwk

 

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