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Scott Benedict – COMPREHENDED! 2021

Join us for a truly different conference experience.

Join us for COMPREHENDED! THE Online CI Conference.

COMPREHENDED! brings together highly-skilled, highly-engaging CI professionals and impassioned teachers from all over the globe in a unique, totally online conference dedicated to comprehension-based language instruction.

No longer is your professional development tied to days and weeks away from your family, in strange hotels, eating unhealthy foods.

COMPREHENDED! is a hybrid, online conference with a combination of pre-recorded sessions as well as LIVE! sessions on Saturdays! The LIVE! sessions will also be recorded just in case you can’t participate live.

You can attend COMPREHENDED! from just about anywhere at anytime as all presentations are pre-recorded for your convenience.

You can register for COMPREHENDED! your way. We offer three-month, six-month, and nine-month conference passes so you can enjoy a little or a lot of COMPREHENDED! Not enough? You can extend your pass up to a total of twelve months for an additional fee!

COMPREHENDED! includes topics applicable to those just getting ed with CI as well as seasoned practitioners. Topics include CI activities, reading activities, grading and assessment, classroom management, and much more.

You can also sit in on real CI classrooms with real CI teachers and real CI students.

So what are you waiting for? Put on your PJs and lets get our PD on!

COMPREHENDED! – The Online CI Conference.

Course Curriculum

START HERE!

Pre-Conference
Welcome! (4:39)
Meet & Greet
How to navigate COMPREHENDED! (3:27)
List of Sessions
Graduate-Level Credits
Opening-Day Letter
University of the Pacific/Benerd College
COMPREHENDED! LIVE, Saturday, February 20
Join us for COMPREHENDED! LIVE
COMPREHENDED! LIVE Videos Posted!
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, March 6
COMPREHENDED! Live Videos now available!
It’s already been a MONTH!
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, March 20
COMPREHENDED! LIVE videos are now uploaded!
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, March 27
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, April 10
Reminder! COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, April 10
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, April 24 at 8a US PACIFIC Time
COMPREHENDED! LIVE – Saturday, May 8 at 8a US PACIFIC Time
Need an Extension or University Credits?
COMPREHENDED! Conference Certificates
When does my pass expire?
Last Official Day of COMPREHENDED! and Raffle Winners!

EXHIBITORS

Conversa, Inc. (1:00)
TPRS Books (0:51)
Agen Workshop (4:47)
CI Liftoff
Command Performance Language Institute (0:29)
Fluency Matters (0:31)
Frenchified (0:59)
SquidforBrains (1:58)
Spanish Chat Company (1:04)

Sponsors

TPRS Books (0:51)

New to TPRS/CI | Beginning CI Strategies

Introduction to TPRS – Von and Blaine Ray (41:25)
LIVE! – FEB20 8a-9a – Back to Basics: Storyasking – Bess Hayles (51:53)
Is CI enough? – Blaine Ray (58:37)
Movie Talk – it’s all about the story! – Cécile Lainé (46:51)
Community through Class Meeting – Erica Peplinski-Burge (30:28)
Path to Proficiency Through Storytelling and CI – Jeremy Jordan (37:18)
Picture This! – Kia D. London (25:37)
LIVE! – MAR6 8a-9a – Getting ed with TPRS stories – Part One – Liam Printer (60:24)
LIVE! – MAR20 8a-9a – Getting ed with TPRS stories – Part Two – Liam Printer (61:20)
TPRS in a Primary EFL Context – Lisa Horvath (55:48)
Small Change, Big Impact: The Power of Adjectives – Rachelle Adams (29:45)
What is ComprehendED Input and Why Does it Matter? – Terry Waltz (44:12)
LIVE! – FEB20 9.05a-10.05a – Engaging Energizers! Brain Breaks for the win! – Annabelle Williamson (52:34)
Back to Basics with CI – Rachelle Adams (26:39)
LIVE! – MAY8 10.10a-11.10a – Teaching CI methods to illiterate adults! – Janique Vanderstocken (112:15)

Intermediate CI Strategies

LIVE! – APR10 10.15a-11.15a – Picture Talk: From Community Building to Developing Fluency – Adriana Ramírez (58:03)
LIVE! – APR24 10.10a-11.10a – Teaching with CI novels – Adriana Ramírez (59:53)
Fluency with an intermediate class – Blaine Ray (73:45)
Elevate Your Intermediate Learners with Comprehensible Input – Claudia Elliott (54:20)
Beyond the Story – Kelly Ferguson (53:17)
Deep, Rich Class Conversations with OWIs – Mike Peto (46:13)
Improvisation – Von Ray (60:30)

Advanced CI Strategies

The creative stage of TPRS – Blaine Ray (56:34)
How to be an anti-racist in the CI classroom? – Esmeralda Mora (41:39)
Create Asynchronous Stories with SnapCamera characters – Karen Rowan (35:44)
Authentic Voices – Anna Gilcher (30:03)

Classroom Demos

Using Nearpod and Pear Deck to Ease the Pandemonium – Abby Whicker (31:39)
LIVE! – MAR6 11.15a-12.15a – Story Listening in action – Cécile Lainé (65:40)
LIVE! – MAR6 9.05a-10.05a – Beginning Russian with a Twist – Michele Whaley (62:45)
LIVE! – MAY8 11.15a-12.15p – Use One Culturally-Authentic Resource to Plan for All Your Levels – Tina Hargaden (65:35)

Classroom Management

Winning Over a Tough Crowd: Building Relationships Amidst a Global Pandemic – JJ Epperson (27:42)
LIVE! – APR24 11.15a-12.15p – Classroom Management for CI Teachers – Jon Cowart (62:22)
How To Organize Your [Teaching] Life – Lance Piantaggini (30:41)
Maintaining motivation in the CI classroom through effective classroom management – Liam Printer (45:43)
How do learners participate in comprehension-based classrooms? – Reed Riggs and Diane Neubauer (27:47)
Giving quick directions to participate in different activity contexts – Reed Riggs and Diane Neubauer (29:36)

Curriculum

Take Your German Lessons from Sauer to Süß! – Abby Whicker (67:22)
LIVE! – MAR20 – 9.05a-10.05a – Elementary Curriculum Design – Allison Litten (52:24)
LIVE! – MAR27 8a-8.30a – Gender and Sexuality in the Language Classroom – Ben Fisher (35:23)
LIVE! – MAR27 9.10a-10.10a – Unlocking Art for your Students – Gary DiBianca (57:12)
Creating Space for Critical Conversations – Gary DiBianca (31:52)
Unbleach Your Curriculum In a CI Classroom – Jenniffer Whyte (37:26)
The Nitty Gritty on Creating Compelling Interactive Slides – JJ Epperson (47:23)
Designing a Cultural & Equitable Enriched Curriculum – Kia D. London (44:19)
A few of my favorite things…for the German CI classroom – Lynne Hendrick (13:42)
Pre- and Post-Assessment and Showing Long-Term Growth – Tina Hargaden (50:57)
One Teacher’s Journey into Beginning Antiracist Work in a Level 1 Class – Adrienne Brandenburg (56:49)
LIVE! – MAY8 8a-9a – Making Authentic Resources Comprehensible in the Early Levels – Anna Gilcher (67:23)

Elementary

LIVE! – APR10 – 8a-9a – Bad Unicorn – Erica Peplinski-Burge (58:16)
It’s All Fun and Games with Early Elementary – Erica Peplinski-Burge (66:50)
Tips and Tricks for Elementary CI Teaching – Anne MacKelvie (61:10)

General CI Classroom Activities

Poster, Poster, On the Wall… – John Sifert (59:41)
LIVE! – MAR27 8.35a-9.05a – When the World Is Crashing In and You Don’t Have a Plan – Abby Whicker and JJ Epperson (30:20)
LIVE! – APR24 8a-9a – Movie Talk/Clip Chat: Ageless, Priceless, Timeless – Allison Litten (58:39)
LIVE! – APR24 9.05-10.05a – Out of the Box and Out of the Classroom! – Annabelle Williamson (62:05)
3 Multilevel Activities to Work Smarter & Not Harder – Bertha Delgadillo (14:43)
“Date Talk”: bringing diversity to your classroom in five a day – Bess Hayles (27:42)
LIVE! – FEB20 10.10a-11.10a – Persona Especial Student Interviews, The Key to True Interpersonal Proficiency – Bryce Hedstrom (64:40)
CI with Jamboard – Caitlin McKinney (31:09)
Tricks to expose your students to rich comprehensible language and a variety of texts. – Dahiana Castro (22:09)
“Imagine!”: Planning for play in language classrooms – Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs (17:51)
Tips and Treasures for this Strange New World – Faith Laux (63:25)
How to Make Your Own Movietalks: Everything from Short Cartoons to Videogame Reviews! – Gregory Schwab (52:38)
Finding the story – Jeremy Jordan (46:56)
LIVE! – APR10 9.05a-9.35a – Google Walking Tours and Surveys – Karen Rowan (33:44)
Hush….Listen! The “other” MovieTalk – Margit Yokota (51:42)
LIVE! – MAR27 11.20a-12.20p – The Special Person Interview: build community and manage your classroom – Michele Whaley (62:48)
Increasing comprehension and engagement in the language classroom through drawing and visual teaching/learning: a two-part workshop – Nicole de Boer and Phillip Smith (60:47)
Increasing comprehension and engagement in the language classroom through drawing and visual teaching/learning: a two-part workshop – Phillip Smith and Nicole de Boer (64:44)
Better Cultural Comparisons: ing with the Culture in the Room – Rachelle Adams (40:48)
LIVE! – MAR27 10.15a-11.15a – Life Hacks: Classroom Edition #2020 – Kelly Ferguson (58:20)

Grading and Assessment

Feedback in the CI-Centered Classroom – Ben Fisher (30:20)
Deconstructing the AP Reading & Listening Questions – Gary DiBianca (31:08)
Lighten your load! Student goal setting & self- assessment – Kristen Wolf (39:37)
Power Tools for Assessment and Backwards Design That Makes Sense – Tina Hargaden (59:44)

Heritage Learners

Take What You Need: Heritage Learners & Comprehensible Input – Bertha Delgadillo (30:52)

Listening Strategies and Activities

Making songs 100% comprehensible – Margarita Pérez García (45:35)

Reading Strategies and Activities

Comprehended LLLAB (17:59)
Reading in the Elementary classroom – Allison Litten and Kristen Wolf (55:42)
Reading is Rockin’ – Annabelle Williamson (60:51)
LIVE! – MAR6 10.10a-11.10a – Magic Tricks to get Students to Read and Re-read! – Dahiana Castro (53:58)
The Power of Choice in CYOA style novels – Jeremy Jordan (52:26)
Book Tasting! How to Help Students Browse Your FVR Library – John Sifert (26:08)
The DIY One Sheet of Paper CI Book of Greatness – Josiah Brandt aka El Tuerto Guty (33:49)
LIVE! – APR10 9.40a-10.10a – Quick Guide to Making a Backward Plan from a Reader – Karen Rowan (60:13)
Slide Talk Stories – Lance Piantaggini (15:09)
Whole Class Novella Reading (As Early As Year 1, Day 2!) – Lance Piantaggini (59:28)
The Magic of Independent Reading – Lynne Hendrick (11:02)
Quality principles for Language Learner Literature and teacher-created texts – Margarita Pérez García and Anny Ewing (59:56)
Three-Level Statement Guide – Michele Whaley (61:41)
The Read-Aloud Experience – Mike Peto (16:55)