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Northeastern Portuguese Cultural Club (PCC)

Welcome to our blog. Interested in connecting with the Northeastern community or networking with Portuguese-speaking community internationally? We have a lot of events in the works and are currently looking to recruit members to make it happen!

If you are interested in an E-board position or plan on participating in the organization, please contact us at neupcc@gmail.com -!

Looking forward to meeting you :)

Dave Merwin lecturing faculty & staff on social media at George Fox Evangelical Seminary via @lorenkerns

Cornell Event

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Cornell Big Red Relief Event

Event: Big Red Relief Presents: The Practical Side of Making a Difference
When: Monday, November 9th.
Where: WSH Memorial Room, 5-6:30pm

Join us as we learn from the experiences and expertise of highly
accomplished Cornell Alum, Josh Tetrick. Josh with talk to us about
the most effective ways of social action, and help us prepare to make
this year’s benefit concert the most successful yet. Come to our event
to:

1. Find out how to get involved with Big Red Relief and learn more
about Invisible Children
2. Get a second opportunity to hear Josh speak, as well as chat with
him during a meet and greet session after the event
3. Put the lessons learned from Josh to immediate use by getting
involved with Big Red Relief.

For more information or if you have any questions please contact
myself at oob3@cornell.edu, or Anna Favrot at acf53@cornell.edu. We
hope to get to meet you at the event!

Thanks UMD

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Cornell Global Development Event

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The joy of recording!

This simple device is becoming a "staple" in my lessons. I plug it to my computer, open Audacity (a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds) and I start recording my students. they usually have a conversation with a partner or they do a little presentation about themselves. They love it because for some reason they love listening to their own voice. So the magic happens: once they have recorded themselves, they listen to their performance and most of the time they want to do it again
because they have spotted a pronunciation mistake or a grammatical error! I mean, how often do you hear students wanting to repeat themselves when they speak in another language??? The recording exercise allows this magical phenomenon to happen! And even better, students love it when they know their recordings will be embedded on the school blog and therefore available for the world to listen to.

This week I have decided to try to use it as often as I can in an attempt to make my students visit the blog and leave comments. I have noticed they do visit the blog but they have not yet stepped into the commenting phase. Do you have any suggestions to make students comment on a blog?

If you haven't tried this yet, please do. You can find microphones at a very affordable price and they are so easy to use with Audacity. You can then save your recordings as .wav or.mp3 files and easily embed them onto your blog or website. You will see your students being motivated to SPEAK ;)

What about you? what do you do to make your students speak in another language?

Event flyers

Student groups hosting me in the next few months are more than welcome
to use these flyers for upcoming events.

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Thank you.

Thank to everyone for making this event all about world-changing
tools, prosperous careers, innovative ideas, and action-oriented young
people. I would have paid you to participate.

Josh