Share Fair: Mission and Goals
Our vision is to create and foster a true community of language educators through interdepartmental collaboration. We believe in the supporting power of networking and learning from peers, and it is our mission to provide a casual and welcoming environment for this unique and worthy cause.
- Meet colleagues and other language Instructors
- Hear practical and proven suggestions you can use in the classroom
- Get ideas from many different languages
- Enjoy a variety of refreshments
Presentation Parameters
Presentations at the Share Fair are limited to 3-5 minutes. We encourage presenters to invite audience members to participate and actually "do" the classroom activities you share. In other words, the Share Fair is not a place to just "tell" and discuss theory. Rather, it is a place to "show" and "include" the audience in hands-on activities that each of us can modify as needed and use in our language classrooms!
The focus of each Share Fair event is determined by the theme for the semester. You can use the following as suggestions or hints on how to fit your idea into the theme
- Technology (internet, e-mail, video, computer- assisted language learning)
- our skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
- Culture (big C and little c)
- Learning strategies
- Group work
- Pragmatics; language in a social context
- Testing and assessment
History of Share Fair
Originally started in the late 1990s, and then revived in 2006, the Foreign and Second Language Share Fair originated with and is still organized by graduate students at Indiana University, along with faculty mentors. Share Fair is sponsored by the Center for Language Technology (CeLT).
Above: 2006 Share Fair Attendees
Questions?
Want to sponsor us? Serve on the committee? Just have general questions? Send us an email shfair@iu.edu
