Nearly 30% of survey respondents (19 of 66) said their organization recouped their investment in immersive technologies in less than nine months, once their project(s) launched.
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The top motivations for investment in immersive technology in 2008 /1Q 2009 were enabling people in disparate locations to spend time together, increased innovation, and cost savings or avoidance.
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Early implementers are choosing the simplest use cases first. The most common were learning and training (80%, or 53 of 66 respondents focused on this use case) and meetings (76%, or 50 of 66 respondents). Some intend to take on more complex use cases in 2010 or 2011.
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The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
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"The fact that our students study a language from grade one not only teaches them how to learn languages, it gives them the mindset that languages are just as important as any other subject," says Janet Eklund, now in her 20th year at Glastonbury, where she's one of two Russian teachers.
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"All along, we're working to make them not just language proficient, but culturally aware," says Oleksak. "We always remind them that they have to learn more than just the words to relate to people from other cultures."
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"There's a Chinese saying, that if three people pass by, one of them is your teacher. We learn from just about every experience we have," says Wang. "Then we make sense of it through our language."
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L'analyse nutritionnelle de chacune de nos recettes a été calculée par le \nCIRIHA. Il vous suffit de choisir la catégorie de produit puis le produit en \nparticulier.\n\nEn cliquant sur « fiche produit » vous verrez l'analyse de ce produit. En \ncliquant sur « ajouter » ce produit s'ajoute à votre \nmenu, sélectionnez alors un ou plusieurs autres produits, cliquez sur « ajouter » et vous verrez la pyramide totale pour votre menu. \nPour supprimer un produit il suffit de cocher la case et de cliquer sur « supprimer
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French teachers, this is a great authentic tool for healthy living. I visited this restaurant in Belgium and the menu is online too. The visual analysis of the nutritional values of the food here is really interesting!
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The main exposure students had to the culture of the target language was through controlled interaction with native speakers in the classroom.
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Language & culture are more naturally integrated in this approach. Culture instruction is connected to grammar instruction. Its main goal is to teach students how to use the target language when communicating in a cultural context
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the following are other common approaches to teaching culture: (from Omaggio) The Frankenstein Approach: A taco from here, a flamenco dancer from there, a gaucho from here, a bullfight from there. The 4-F Approach: Folk dances, festivals, fairs and food. The Tour Guide Approach: The identification of monuments, rivers and cities. The "By-the-Way" Approach: Sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminately to emphasize sharp differences.
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