We would like to hear from you: The summer semester 2021 will be the 3rd online semester at the Language Centre. We would like to know how the Corona pandemic has affected your life and especially your studies. Send us texts or other contributions. The entries will be entered into a draw for 10 vouchers for a free language course in the winter semester 2021/22. We will collect your contributions and compile them into a format that will be presented as part of the Day of Teaching on 26 May 2021.
One year of remote teaching and learning (not only) in the Language Centre - a topic for the Day of Teaching on 26 May 2021?
Around this time a year ago, we had to cancel the start of our intensive German courses planned for 9 March 2020 and turn to remote teaching virtually overnight. Our first online courses were launched on 12 March 2020. At that time, many things were new and challenging: bookstores were closed, teaching materials not yet available as e-books, Moodle rooms still had to be created and 'filled', video conferencing systems were unfamiliar, and so on.
You as our course participants and we as your teachers learned together how to learn and teach languages digitally - always hoping, of course, that face-to-face teaching would soon be possible again, which is precisely what language learning and teaching thrives on.
But the Corona pandemic unfortunately threw a spanner in the works. The winter semester also became a digital one, and the upcoming summer semester will be the same. In the meantime, we have all learned a lot, but we have also experienced many things that have changed our lives: extensive contact restrictions, several months of lockdown, perhaps the loss of financial ressources, of opportunities for going or studying abroad, of friendships, or of loved ones.
We want to hear about that. We want to give you a voice, because students and their situation in the pandemic are too rarely featured in the media. We are interested in how your everyday life, your studies, your (original) plans, your learning behaviour, your motivation, etc. have developed or changed, how you have dealt with these challenges and how these experiences can be used positively (perhaps also by others) for the future.
A forum for all this will be provided by this year's Digital Day of Teaching on 26 May 2021, which will focus on international and digital teaching and learning.
Share your experiences with us and others - by sending us texts, annotated photos (e.g. your workplace/desk/study during the Corona pandemic) or short films. Write or tell us about the past year - gladly also in English or in one of the languages you are currently learning with us. For film contributions (please no longer than three minutes), you can also use your mother tongue, as long as German or English subtitles are provided.
Please use the following three keywords as a guideline: Retrospective (lows and highs) | Insight (into the current situation) | An outlook (into the future).
We will collect your contributions and compile them into a format that can be presented as part of the Day of Teaching on 26 May 2021.
Among those who participate, 10 vouchers for a free language course in the winter semester 2021/22 will be raffled. Send your contributions to susanne.kirchmeyer@uni-weimar.de. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Formats:
Text contributions: max. 1 DIN A 4 page in Word format (languages: German/English/Italian/French/Spanish/Swedish)
Annotated photos: max. three with a commentary in a Word file (languages: German/English/Italian/French/Spanish/Swedish)
Films: max. 3 minutes in mp4 format (mobile phone) (languages: German/English/Italian/French/Spanish/Swedish or other (native) languages, if necessary with subtitles/commentary provided in German/English).
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