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NEW PLATEAUSNew Plateaus Geography Spotlight #1: Moldova
I like geography--how about you? I got a big map on my bedroom wall that I study from time to time and say things like, "Hmmm, I didn't know Somalia was east of Israel." And more than looking at al...
4/20/12 at 10:03 AM Shenanigans at The Summer Palace 7/22/11 at 12:45 AM
An Introduction 4/12/11 at 8:21 AM
FARGO SCHOOL TALKThe new Standards are coming
In a little over a year, Fargo Public Schools and other school districts in North Dakota will be moving to the Common Core Standards.The Standards are part of the Common Core State Standards Initiativ...
4/19/12 at 11:55 AM Agassiz begins anew 3/9/12 at 1:06 PM
Spotlight on our craft 9/19/11 at 10:48 AM
UND NEWSMelissa Gjellstad to examine ‘When Men Speak: Masculinities and Fathering in Millennial Norwegian Literature’ at the final UND Faculty Lecture April 19
Melissa Gjellstad, assistant professor and Norwegian Program director in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota, will present the fifth and ...
4/13/12 at 3:43 PM UND Working Group to host seminar on digital and new media April 10 at Fire Hall Theatre 4/5/12 at 2:14 PM
UND law student headed to Azerbaijan this summer for intensive language instruction 5/5/11 at 3:39 PM
MIDDLE AGED PLAGUEThe Grown-Up World of Make Believe
Movies arent real. While ostensibly, most grownups agree on this, we frequently dont act as if we do. Its not so much that we look over our shoulders for zombies or vampires as that we gaze at our ba...
2/23/12 at 3:52 PM
NIE ROCKS!January Lesson Plans
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a nice holiday break. Here is a calendar with daily lesson plans using the newspaper for the month of January. The calendar is from the NIE Institute. To download a p...
1/3/12 at 10:19 AM Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts 1/7/11 at 9:37 AM
(RTI) Response to Intervention Guide for K-12, ESL and Adult Literacy 12/8/10 at 8:00 AM
THE NEW FORTYDissed robe!
WhenI sayrobe, what do you envision? Perhaps something made of plaid flannel, that is manly, knee level length, covers your night clothes and keeps you warm on chilly mornings? Or are you thinking of ...
12/6/11 at 8:23 AM Settling on juxtaposition... 3/21/11 at 6:28 PM
You are full of it! 10/19/10 at 9:54 PM
STAFF BLOGSHESAYSTVRadio host Jay Thomas leaves his man-cave to talk love with Chris Linnares
If you've never met radio host Jay Thomas from 970WDAY-AM, we'll tell you this: He's a guy's guy. Jay is the kind of guy who's more comfortable drinking beer and talking Vikings than chit-chatting abo...
12/1/11 at 11:00 AM
THE ADVOCATE: THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MSUMDeaf student strives for MFA
There is a person on campus many students have seen a lot. She walks by on the way to classes, sits at the other table in Kise and lives on campus in the dorms. But shes more than an average college s...
12/1/11 at 12:33 AM Deaf adjunct teaches signs 11/30/11 at 6:37 PM
ASL Club offers learning, practicing, teaching 11/30/11 at 1:33 PM
JAMESTOWN COLLEGE NEWSJamestown College offering new course on Chinese language, culture
Jamestown College will offer a Chinese Language and Culture course taught by two visiting Chinese professors beginning Monday, Sept. 12. Community members are welcome to take the class, which will be ...
8/31/11 at 3:31 PM
ROVING REPORTER: AN OUT-OF-WORK JOURNALIST SEEKS SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND/OR GOOD SEAFOOD IN PERULearning like a baby with Rosetta Stone
The countdown begins. I've got just over a week left before I take off for parts unknown. Meantime, I've been hammering away at Rosetta Stone, trying to regain at least a tenuous grasp of the Spanish ...
6/21/11 at 12:58 PM
STAFF BLOGPAR-VENT-ING: PARENTING AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEENMonkey see, monkey please DON'T
If children are mirrors, then I wantmine to reflect proper grammar. Jo K. wrote about what her toddler has taught her in the Forum's Family Blog. She says her sonmimics what she does, like rushing to...
2/2/11 at 12:10 PM
STAFF BLOGCAPITOL CHATTERBill making English official language begins legislative trek
Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen brought back a bill often debated in the Legislature, to make English Minnesotas official language. Learning the English language is essential, the Alexandria Republican said. ...
2/2/11 at 3:23 AM Effort begins to save Indian languages 4/3/09 at 11:13 AM
WHAT'S THAT ROCK, ETC.?debitage - waste products of making stone tools
Debitage may look like a word from the worlds of finance or fashion, but it actually comes from the world of archeology. Debitage refers to the waste products of making stone tools, everything from la...
2/1/11 at 11:56 AM "So, do you blow yourself out?" 12/29/10 at 10:06 AM
MODERN-DAY JANEI'll be telling him to "zip it" soon, too.
Here's breaking news, folks: ADAM IS TALKING. Kinda. There are sounds that are close to being words: "sssss" when you ask what a snake says "mmmm" when you ask what a cow says (but only if you have...
1/26/11 at 3:23 PM Eating should make that list, too, maybe. 10/12/10 at 10:06 PM
Public Service Announcement 4/1/09 at 5:16 PM
WFPS CAREER CENTER: CONNECTING LEARNING TO LIFELanguage Cutbacks Bad for Business
Fewer U.S. schools are offering foreign language classes, despite evidence that learning another language can help workers succeed in a global economy. Read more from the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal S...
11/10/10 at 8:50 AM
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