ClipFlair Newsletter – May 2012

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About ClipFlair

ClipFlair is a European-funded project for foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioning of clips.

The project’s main outputs include:

» A web platform through which the users will be able to create, upload and access the revoicing and captioning activities. It will also support social-networking, offering Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, tags) that will enable users to share their work, form groups, cooperate, interact and rate activities

» A library of resources containing over 300 activities for all CEFR levels of the 15 languages targeted, accompanied by corresponding lesson plans and relevant metadata

» Guidelines for activity creation and evaluation criteria

» An online community of over 1.500 learners, teachers and activity authors.

The ClipFlair platform

The versatility of the platform (online access, minimal software installation, launching from the web, no demand for advanced computer skills) along with its flexibility (in-class, distance or self-learning) and the highly motivating type of activity (interaction between text and video) are expected to reach a wide audience beyond the project target groups (university, adult and secondary education teachers and learners).

ClipFlair will develop exercises and activities, framed in lesson plans, which will enable FL learners to practice all four skills: writing, speaking, listening and reading.

Our playground is under construction, but if you want to know more about the project’s aims, consortium and outputs, please visit clipflair.net.

The ClipFlair consortium

The Clipflair consortium

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