ILR Showcase

Spent the day at the ILR Showcase (Interagency Language Roundtable) at the George Washington University in DC. This year's theme: "Advances in Language Learning and Cultural Understanding".

I split my time up between presentations on teaching culture in language classes (including a fascinating one on use Persian (Farsi) blogs), and those on technology - particularly on Smart Tools. One of the best was on how to build and use corpora in grammar and translation courses using TextStat software.

A long busy day but definitely worthwhile.