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Welcome to the LinguaCamp 2015 Berlin Wiki!

Some potential themes for the workshops:

Learning by doing

  • Babel Tower: challenges building a tower in different languages
  • Learn language with (action) theater
  • Language Cafe with Language Games
  • Table Topics: giving short, sponteous talks in the language we are learning

Using Technology

  • Maker Space: language learning and teaching with open hardware such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi
  • Lessons learned from using and designing flash card apps
  • LMOOC : Designing a language learning massive open online course (MOOC)

Finding and using quality content

  • Free and effective resources available for language learning
  • Improve your English with TED Talks (we'll watch and discuss a TED Talk and how they can be used for language learning)

Teaching methods, content creation, and assessment

  • Methods to help effectively help refugees learn the local language
  • Teacher Stories: how a language teach can use their life experiences to create a story.
  • The honeycomb approach to designing valid and reliable language tests.
  • How to certify language skills with Open Badges