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Online workshop: Simple to complex tools - Transitioning to online teaching with H5P and more, 27-30 August 2020

by LACE LMS Administrator -


Arabic Hindi Urdu Teacher Workshop: 27-30 August, 9:00am -03:00pm (EST)

About this Event

This workshop is a LACE event, supported by the Hagop Kevorkian Center, New York University, the South Asia Institute, Columbia University, Sofia University, and the South Asia Institute, UT Austin. It is hosted by the Center for Educational Initiatives.

The online workshop is conducted in the Lace Academy Space. The program begins with a one-week, pre-program asynchronous segment, followed by a four-day synchronous meeting, ending with a week-long, post-program, asynchronous segment supported by synchronous office hour meetings.

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Transcending Borders, Empowering Learners: Reimagining Linguistic & Cultural Exchange During Covid-19 Prof. Elizabeth Claire Saylor, North Carolina State University

by Bhavya Singh -

Transcending Borders, Empowering Learners: Reimagining Linguistic & Cultural Exchange During Covid-19 Prof. Elizabeth Claire Saylor, North Carolina State University

Friday, 28 January 2022

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Claire Saylor will discuss lessons learned as founder and director of the Yallah Al-Quds program, in a webinar entitled Transcending Borders, Empowering Learners: Reimagining Linguistic & Cultural Exchange During Covid-19. Yallah Al-Quds (Let’s Go Jerusalem) is a student-facilitated, faculty-mentored initiative that promotes ongoing Arabic and English language learning and cultural exchange between speakers of Arabic and English worldwide. Through bilingual theme-centered online discussion groups, hybrid conversational English courses, a virtual lecture series, and professional development workshops – all offered free of charge – Yallah al-Quds facilitators and participants gain real- world experience and build meaningful relationships with people around the world. Yallah Al-Quds seeks to radically reimagine language learning spaces by embracing a radical, anti-hierarchical approach to teaching and learning that prioritizes inclusivity, accessibility, reciprocity, and active responses to racism and unconscious bias. 

Event Details

Please use this link to join us via Zoom: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94555833532

Dr. Elizabeth C. Saylor is Assistant Professor of Arabic at North Carolina State University and holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley. An award-winning teacher of Arabic language and literature, Elizabeth has taught at Columbia, Berkeley, Bard College, and Middlebury College. Her research focuses on Arab women’s literature, mahjar literature, the early Arabic novel, and early Syrian immigration to North and South America.

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Hindi Urdu Teacher Workshop - July 24: 9:00am -1:30pm (EST)

by LACE LMS Administrator -

Our Online Instructional Strategies: Share & Learn

by Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies @NYU and South Asia Institute, Columbia University

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About this Event

Several practicing Hindi & Urdu instructors will present a successful online activity and will share the following: An outline of the activity/ mini lesson including objectives, target structures, material and student products. Learning from each other is inspiring and enriching. The workshop will allow for exchange of technology supported ideas and innovative practices.

Please bring an activity, resources or just an idea for collaborative learning experinece. Video conferencing link will be emailed to you a day before the event.

All the participants are requested to email their contact information to Bhavya Singh @ bsr307@nyu.edu