Due to the various government mandates, and several cancelled travel plans, I have taken time this summer to explore our great nation, and its even greater outdoors. From the Shenandoah Valley to the Great Smoky Mountains, there is plenty of beauty to explore without even needing a passport. One of my many adventures has been […]
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Note: This article is based on experiences with Baltimore County Public Schools curriculum, and is adapted from a project for a seminar entitled Mentoring the New Teacher, Part 2. Trying to teach a language can be tough, and even more so when the new language is being taught through Schoology, Canvas, or Blackboard sounds crazy,
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At the Museum, we respect those from backgrounds, races, and cultures all over the globe. Recent events have shown that the American ideals of liberty and justice for all have not yet been fully achieved. We are sharing this message to show our support for the massive movement for justice and equality that these events
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Since stay-at-home orders began, we have seen many advertisements saying that we are “all in this together.” I have personally seen this in several different languages, and it made me realize there have actually been a few attempts to bring all together linguistically. This month, we will be exploring Esperanto, probably the most popular attempt
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Note: This interview was conducted by Greg Nedved, NML President BIO Gina Valle ‘s work has focused on diversity and has chosen to examine and share it through the creation of books, documentaries, exhibits, research, storytelling. Dr. Valle holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (OISE) in Teacher Education and Multicultural Studies. An overview
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One of the most challenging aspects of remote learning that I have come across is how to be engaging in a digital setting. Being stuck behind a webcam is a completely different feeling from being able to move around, have manipulatives, or sit down with students. But while it feels like a daunting
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I had the opportunity to have an interview with Tim Brookes, our upcoming speaker on May 23rd. If you are curious about him or the Endangered Alphabets Project, please take a look at what he had to say. Please tell me a bit about your background. I was born in England and educated at Oxford,
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One of the biggest challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has been disseminating the information regarding social distancing and other health and safety information. It can be difficult to provide this information to everyone even in the lingua franca of an area, and while many areas around the world are providing this information in
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I have entered my 3rd week of remote and distance learning, and in many ways, while it has been frustrating, I miss my students, and it is not an ideal teaching platform, in many ways I have been grateful for the opportunities it has afforded. I am naturally an antsy person, and feel
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265 is a minor variation on 136, so minor that Crompton doesn’t even bother to translate it twice. This is an example of an ancient ethnic joke, because one of the characters involved is a student from Sidon in Phoenicia. The Philogelos text has as one of its subdivisions a section on jokes about Sidonians.
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