Many agree that one of the best ways to learn a foreign language is to spend time speaking it with native speakers. Yet, going to a foreign country every week to meet a native speaker to would be almost impossible... Not if the trip is virtual. By introducing videoconferencing software into the curriculum, Department of Spanish & Portuguese professor Ana Williams has allowed her students to regularly communicate with Brazilian students in a rich and immersive experience that is personal and real.

The MMLC welcomes three talented interns to the staff: Cambrey Thomas, Yana Myaskovskaya, and Aaron Menninga.

The MMLC welcomes to Northwestern University from France Mr. Michel Yaèche, whose testimony figures in the Picpus Digital Archives. Mr. Yaèche was a French-born Jewish teenager living in Paris during the German occupation. His family, originally from Salonica, was cruelly divided by the policies that initially protected Jews considered French citizens over those who were not.

Where did Grandfather go?
A talk with Michel Yaèche

How the disparities between the policies of the Vichy government toward French Jews and immigrant Jews fractured one family.

Sunday, April 6
2 p.m.

Harris Hall Room 107
1881 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

The Picpus Digital Archive is a Northwestern educational project funded primarily by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional grants from the Alumnae Association. The archive focuses on history, memory and commemoration.

This talk has been organized by The Department of French and Italian and the Multimedia Learning Center.

Starting this quarter, the MMLC has made available on a limited basis, a trial installation of Moodle, an award-winning open-source couse management system. The alternative CMS offers an enhanced multi-lingual option to Blackboard and is currently in use by three Portuguese language courses.