While I’m publicly thanking some of the commenters I have not contacted personally lately, I have found that some of the comments left evolve themselves very nicely into blog posts of their own. This post is based on one such comment.
Don from donosborn.org has started a wiki for
gathering strategies and methods for supporting the International Year of Languages (IYL). He kindly added a link to my blog because I mentioned IYL a while ago in a post called A Special Year for Languages - and how all teachers can help.
Don’s wiki gives some info on the background of IYL , including some official UN documents, some activities and projects and approaches to supporting IYL. He also alerted me to the fact that there is a Facebook group for IYL, which I joined.
The IYL wiki is definitely worth checking out. It remind me that I’ve got to get some IYL activities happening at school. Any suggestions? What are you doing in your school to promote it? If any of you want to work together on something let me know!
I didn’t know this was going on! I’d love to get involved in a project; students and I will be more available after the last week of March, but perhaps I could do some planning March 15th-23rd. We’re on Spring Break and I could be available any time of day or nite!
Will try to help spread the word about Don’s wiki!
Jess, 谢谢 for this posting and for calling attention to the small wiki effort I’ve been leading. It’s getting a fair amount of hits so apparently it’s filling a role. I will try to upgrade it at some point.
I’ve split the list of blogs, which was getting long, by dates. This entry is on a new page.
Thanks also to Ginger for your thoughts. Actually using the spring break period (northern hemisphere) for those who are not traveling is a good idea.
i am gonna show this to my friend, brother