MIIS professor Rosa Kavenoki hosts an event for MIIS and Middlebury Alumni in Moscow, Russia on October 30th. Thank you, Rosa!
Professor Rosa Kavenoki hosts Alumni Event in Moscow
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ATA 52nd Annual Conference Registration Begins
The ATA 52nd Annual Conference will be held at Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts from October 26th-29th 2011.
More than 1,500 translators, interpreters, project managers, and company owners will attend ATA’s 52nd Annual Conference.
The opportunity to network with this many colleagues only happens once a year. Don’t miss it!
Register now to SAVE! Fees increase 17% on OCTOBER 15.
GO TO http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/register.htm
ATA 52nd Annual Conference QUICK LINKS
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* Annual Conference Home Page
http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011
* AVOID Late Registration!
https://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/register.htm
* Preconference Seminar Program
https://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/seminars.php
* Conference Sessions by Language
https://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/bylanguage.php
* Conference Sessions by Specialty
http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/byspecial.php
* Tool Tutorials
http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/tools.htm
* Job Marketplace
http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/job.htm
* Professional Networking Events
https://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/special.htm
* Conference Exhibit Hall
https://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/exhibitors.php
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Questions? Need more INFORMATION?
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Contact Kwana Ingram
ATA Member Relations Manager
Email: Kwana@atanet.org
Phone: +1-703-683-6100, ext. 3001
Fax: +1-703-683-6122
Chinese T&I 25th Anniversary Reunion
第二十五週年
25th MIIS T&I Chinese Anniversary
July 15th 2011
Taipei, Taiwan
The Chinese T&I 25th anniversary reception dinner held last Friday in Taipei was a huge success. 50 alumni registered for the event, and even though there was heavy rain, 37 of showed up. Three alumni couldn’t come that day, so Professor Jui-Ching Wallace Chen took them out for a separate dinner. In total 40 people joined the 25th anniversary reception: the biggest T&I turnout in Taipei for years.
This was probably the first T&I reunion in Taiwan that attracted alumni from the very first class of 1989 to the most recent class of 2011. Some of the alumni haven’t seen each other for almost 20 years! They all shared fond memories of studying at MIIS and got caught up on latest news and development of the Institute.
Many alumni conveyed their greetings to all the Chinese T&I faculty, the Dean, Angie and Jeff. Also a special thank you to Leah and Maureen at the Alumni office for your generous financial support to make this anniversary dinner a wonderful and memorable event.
Our T&I alumni in Taiwan are doing pretty well. Statistics below give you an overview of what they are up to now:
NGO: 1
Government: 7
Freelance: 8
University instructors: 17
Private businesses: 5
TI agencies: 2
Zenning My Presentation
Do you know how to Zen your presentation? It’s a concept that my colleague and friend, Bob Cole, director of our Teaching & Learning Collaborative, turned me on to. How often have you sat through a presentation with a tiny font size and so much text that you couldn’t possibly absorb the information, let alone concentrate on the speaker?
With Zenning, less is more. Find images that are thought-provoking and relevant to the topic. Flickr’s Creative Commons is a great resource. And rather than creating bulleted lists of facts and figures, select a few words or phrases that express your key concepts. Think Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. The presentation should be an aide, not a distraction. Once you free yourself from the prison of bullet lists, your audience is free to focus on your message. For more details, check out Garr Reynold’s Web site. He literally wrote the book on Zenning your presentation: Presentation Zen.
As I start to design the presentation for my TESOL workshop, I think back to the first time I converted a PowerPoint show using these ideas. Afterword, participants raved to me! For a sample of what I did, check out my slideshare “The Top 10 Things Every New Language Program Administrator Should Know.”
So, if you are gearing up for a presentation of your own this year, consider adding some Zen. Your audience will thank you for it!