ACTFL is sponsoring a national student podcast contest to celebrate Discover Languages month during February 2010! This effort is part of the sustained public awareness campaign Discover Languages..Discover the World! which is designed to bring media attention to the critical need for all students to have the opportunity to learn a second language.
Students across the country, from elementary school through college age, will be encouraged to submit video podcasts how language learning has been important in their lives. The podcasts will be judged for originality and creativity by a celebrity panel of judges and cash and product prizes will be available to the students who produce the winning podcasts.
Contest theme: Discover Languages...Discover the World!
Students will develop a video public service announcement that promotes language learning and provides the audience with compelling reasons why students should be developing proficiency in more than one language! For specific contest rules, go to www.DiscoverLanguages.org.
Contest deadline: December 20, 2009.
The contest is supported by CLEAR (The Center for Language Education and Research) and MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).