October 20th
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Generative AI: GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 Image Generation
When: October 20th, 2-3 PM (Demo), 3-4 PM (Hands-on Practice)
Where: MCK 175, Yamada Language Center
With the recent release and integration of DALL-E 3 into ChatGPT, image generation is easier and more impressive than ever before. Come see how it works, discuss ways it could be used for language activities, and get a chance to try it for yourself too!
As a preview, here is what it can do with only a simple prompt:
"Can you make me an image of a woman sitting outdoors at a cafe while people-watching?"
November 17th
Voices of Language Students and Alumni (November 17th 1:30 - 3:00 PM, MCK 175)
Yamada Language Center will host two UO alumni, Landon Jantz and Mathilde Begu, to talk about their careers working with languages. Landon graduated last year from UO Linguistics and is now working in Portland in translation services at LanguageLine Solutions. He will discuss what it's like to work for a large translation company, and how his linguistics and language background support his career.
Mathilde Begu is also a recent graduate of the Language Teaching Studies MA program at UO, and has taught French at the high school and college levels. She will discuss her journey as a language instructor, and how her background and education have prepared her to be a teacher.
In addition to the two main guest speakers, we will also have current UO undergraduate students talk about both the SLAT (Second Language Acquisition and Teaching) certificate program and the Chinese Flagship Program are preparing students for careers after graduation.
If you're a current UO student and are interested in working with languages after graduation, please come and attend this session! You'll have an opportunity to hear from current language professionals, and have a chance to ask them questions during the session.
Food and beverages will be provided to attendees.
December 7th
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Language Educator Summit
December 7th, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (Summit), 1:00 - 1:30 PM (Discussion)
McKenzie 175 or Zoom
Join us in MCK 175, or via Zoom at noon for the first in a series of collaborations between the University of Washington and the University of Oregon! The Language Educator summits aim to increase professional development opportunities at these institutions, while also being accessible to all educators virtually.
This first summit will focus on how Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative Commons can be leveraged by higher ed language educators. Representing the UO in this summit are Julie Weise, Associate Professor of History, and Lara Ravitch, Senior Instructor II and Russian Language Coordinator. Details on their the presenters and their topics can be found below:
Creating Open Educational Resources with DEIA in Mind
Teacher-created visual materials are necessary for communication in the novice language classroom, but they also present a particular opportunity for DEIA. This presentation explores image databases and simple design tools for creating Open Educational Resources that maximize both DEIA and comprehensibility.
Lara Ravitch is the Russian Language Coordinator at the University of Oregon and also serves as Dean of the Russian Language Village at Concordia Language Villages. She has Master's degrees in both Language Teaching and Special Education, and her professional interests include content- and project-based instruction, Universal Design for Learning, and DEIA in the novice language classroom.
Teach in Spanglish: A Multilingual OER for History and Social Science Teaching
In this session, UO historian Julie Weise will present her work on Teach in Spanglish, a free but instructor-facing OER that shows historians and other social science teachers how to teach scaffolded Spanish and Spanglish content to students with even basic levels of Spanish.
Julie M. Weise is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon and author of the award-winning Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910. The Teach in Spanglish initiative she co-developed with sociolinguist Claudia Holguín Mendoza (UC Riverside) has received funding from OpenOregon Educational Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities.