Upcoming Event: JOYN 2.0 Project Meeting and Teacher Training Event

The Department of Modern Languages is involved in an EU funded project, which aims to promote language learning and teaching through social networking sites. DML participants within the project include Marina Mozzon-McPherson, Judy Jowers, Miranda van Rossum, and Elaine Riordan.

As part of this project, a meeting will be held at the University of Hull on Wednesday 23^rd November with project partners from several countries including Finland, Greece, Ireland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Further to this, on Thursday 24^th and Friday 25^th November, a training event will be held for 15 teachers from the above countries. This event includes sessions on Web 2.0 and language learning, language learning within social networking sites, advising for language learning, and monitoring and evaluating online learning, which will be facilitated by members of the DML team.

For more information about the project, please see the http://www.joynlanguages.eu/