Archived January 2003 ebulletin

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This bulletin contains information on the following:

1. SC workshop: Computer Assisted Assessment - University of Strathclyde - 27 January 2003
2. SC Workshop: Intercultural Learning and the Role of Visual Media CILT, London - 31 January 2003
3. LWULT Languages Dissemination Project : Call for Bids
4. Subject Centre Web site
5. Exchange Magazine
6. SCHML Workshop: Managing University Teaching Contracts - CiLT - 12 February 2003
7. LEARNING AND TEACHING RESOURCES USING DIGITAL IMAGES REQUIRING PEER REVIEW

1. SUBJECT CENTRE WORKSHOP - COMPUTER ASSISTED ASSESSMENT

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Monday 27 January 2003 This event will look at generic issues such as CAA pedagogy, standards and interoperability, as well as specific issues and tools for CAA in language learning. There will be demonstrations and opportunity to try out tools currently available (Questionmark, WELTS, Interactive Language Learning).

Details and registration form at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/585

2. SUBJECT CENTRE WORKSHOP: Intercultural Learning and the role of Visual Media 31 January 2003 - CILT, Covent Garden, London

The Subject Centre would like to invite you to participate in our forthcoming interdiscipinary event on the various uses, in undergraduate teaching, of visual media - film television and other visual representations - to promote intercutural awareness as part of a programme in area, transnational or postnational studies. It will particularly explore the inter-disciplinary interfaces between film, media and cultural studies on the one hand and disciplines such as Geography, History and Politics on the other. How can visual media help to develop an understanding of cultural diversity, cultural difference and help advance intercultural awareness? The day will consist of a keynote presentation, case study papers on aspects of this theme focussing upon examples of classroom practice and there will also be time for a general discussion.

Case study abstracts and a full programme are available on our website at http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/586

3. LWULT LANGUAGES DISSEMINATION PROJECT: CALL FOR BIDS

As mentioned in a previous bulletin, the Subject Centre is inviting bids for funding for up to £3,500. This money will fund up to 6 mini projects in lesser widely taught languages. Details and application forms are now available on the Subject Centre website at http://www.llas.ac.uk/news/1217

4. SUBJECT CENTRE WEB SITE

The Subject Centre web site is now up and running and we would welcome your comments.

5. EXCHANGE MAGAZINE

This is a publication produced by the National Coordinating Team, LTSN, JISC and ILT. The focus of the current issue is research and teaching. The Subject Centre has a limited number of copies to distribute. Anyone interested in receiving a copy is asked to email llas@soton.ac.uk giving their name and address.

6. SCHML WORKSHOP: MANAGING UNIVERSITY TEACHING CONTRACTS: THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW - 12 February 2003 - CiLT

The Standing Conference of Heads of Modern Languages in Universities (SCHML) is organising this workshop in response to the growing need for information about contractual developments and issues that are of central importance to language teaching teams in higher education.

Two guest speakers and their topics are as follows:Alan Dainty, Employee Relations Manager, Sheffield Hallam University: Teaching contracts - Are we losing flexibility or simply missing the point?

Andrew Mullen, Assistant Director of Personnel, University of Manchester: Fixed-term contract regulations - The beginning of the end of casualisation in Higher Education?

The workshop is free for participants from SCHML member institutions, £20 for others. Lunch will be provided at an additional cost of £12 per head.

For information on the workshop and a registration form, please contact the SCHML secretary, Dr. John Kidman, Tall Trees, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DX (e-mail: Kidmankarelse@btopenworld.com) or Professor David Head, Chair of SCHML, on 01752 232888 (e-mail: David.Head@pbs.plym.ac.uk).

7. LEARNING AND TEACHING RESOURCES USING DIGITAL IMAGES REQUIRING PEER REVIEW

As part of Phase 2 FILTER project (Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching - an Enriched Resource) some learning and teaching resources using digital images require peer review

£100 per review Reviews to be completed 7 February at the latest

There is a FILTER resources evaluation checklist that will be sent to each peer reviewer, so it is just a matter of ticking a box and maybe adding the odd comment.

Phase 2 FILTER Datasets Requiring Peer Review

Dataset Title*****Subject Area(s)

Occupied France: Commemorating the Deportation *****History/Modern Languages (French)

Teaching Emotional Intelligence*****Interdisciplinary

Dylan Thomas*****English, History, Cultural Studies, Welsh Studies

Beginners' Swedish*****Modern Languages (Swedish)

Seeing Through Different Eyes: The culture of the secondary school*****Education

Using Images in E-Learning*****Generic

For further information contact: Jill Evans Project Manager/Research Co-ordinator,Bristol Biomedical Image Archive/FILTER,Institute for Learning and Research Technology,University of Bristol,8-10 Berkeley Square,Bristol BS8 1HH

Tel: 0117 928 7164,Fax: 0117 928 7112,Mobile: 07976 383208, jill.evans@bristol.ac.uk, http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/

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Sue Nash
Subject Centre Secretary
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
University of Southampton

Tel: 023 80 594814
Fax: 023 80 594815
Email: llas@soton.ac.uk