In Basisgruppen, all members must treat each other with acceptance and tolerance and each person must be prepared to take on responsibilities and participate with joy and conviction in the work of the group.
At the moment there are three such projects:
1. Production of a Basic Kit for Political Action and Advertising for German.[Table of Contents]
2. Production of a Manual on Basisgruppen Management.
3. Establishing a Canada-wide Communication Network for Basisgruppen.
Grammatik Café
(Contact: Ortrud Newton newton@web.apc.org)This group meets to discuss various methodological approaches to teaching grammar in the classroom of German as a foreign language. Participants exchange experience and develop strategies.
Basisgruppe Okanagan
(Contact: Valerie Witham vwitham@junction.net)Basisgruppe Vancouver Island
(Contact: Gwyneth Kingham - gkingham@CLN.etc.bc.ca)
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Impulsgruppe Calgary
This group is involved in a number projects including: designing computer software (CALL) for Deutsch heute, translation of the Red Book(proceedings of Kontakt '95) and the Blue Book (Proceedings of the Calgary Seminar '94), advertising and political lobbying for German, raising funds for professional development, didacticising Rock und Deutsch, establishing a Centre for Teaching Materials, networking among colleagues. The Stammtisch gives members a relaxed, open forum for meeting on a regular basis, where common problems can be discussed and solutions sought. (Contact: Joanne van Donzel - vandonzj@cadvision.com)
[Back to Map]Impulsgruppe Edmonton
This group is presently engaged in three projects:In addition, the group meets frequently to encourage professional development and to find out about new programs and services available. (Contact: Hannah Noerenberg - hnorenb@epsb.edmonton.ab.ca)
- Collection of Reading Materials
- Strategies for German 10
- Challenge Exams
Member Profile List
A detailed inventory of German teachers throughout Canada outlining their affiliation, their teaching areas, areas of interest and expertise and their addresses. (Contact: Doris Muhs - muhs@oanet.com)
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Basisgruppe Gartental
A group of teachers didacticizing various German texts (e.g. Wer? Wie? Was?) and finding computer support for their programs. This group is active in the Winkler area (south of Winnipeg). (Contact: Harold Epp - hepp@mbnet.gov.mb.ca)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Lernexpress
A group of teachers from Manitoba and Saskatchewan whose objective is to didacticize the videoprogram Lernexpress. They are publishing an anthology (edited by Rupert Barensteiner & André Oberlé) to make their work available to a broader audience. As part of this project, computer software for Lernexpress was written by André Oberlé. (Contact: André Oberlé - oberle@uwinnipeg.ca)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Museum Project
A group of teachers (and involving students) preparing German materials for museum visits for young German students. (Contact: Gareth Neufeld - garneuf@minet.gov.mb.ca)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Princess Margaret
A Tandem team (Edith Wiebe, Walter Kampen and James Schellenberg) for German instruction at the Grade 5 and 6 levels. The two members are teachers at Princess Margaret School in the German Bilingual Program in the River-East School Division in Winnipeg. (Contact: Edith Wiebe - edwiebe@minet.gov.mb.ca)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Hutterer
This group of German teachers is primarily concerned with designing a new curriculum for Hutterian Schools, finding effective texts, didacticizing the learning material Bausteine, finding computer software for German, and staging P.D. events. (Contact: Ed Kleinsaesser)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe "germnet"
A discussion group and listserv for German teachers where questions pertaining to curriculum, Internet resources, texts and methodology are raised and discussed province-wide. The listserv also acts as an electronic bulletin board. (Contact: André Oberlé - oberle@uwinnipeg.ca)
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Basisgruppe Toronto
(Contact: Robert Hart - robehart@village.ca
Basisgruppe Québec Grammar-Circle
This group meets once every two months or so to discuss different grammatical points. It is basically an exchange of ideas and materials to better teach difficult grammar points to students. (Contact: Karin Mollinger - ssi@total.net)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Québec Language Schools
This group meets once or twice a semester to exchange ideas and materials for the different levels. They have also worked together to didacticize video materials from Deutsche Welle. (Contact: Dirk Geisen)
[Back to Map]Basisgruppe Montréal Grammar-Circle
(Contacts: Silke Falkner, Karin Doerr)Basisgruppe Lobbying for German. (Contact: Helga Sacher)
Basisgruppe New Media and CALL
(Contact: Cornelia Brandt - goethe-institut.montreal.cgb@uqam.ca)
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[Table of Contents]1. Establishment of a National Communication Network
This group is trying to refine the communication between all the various Basisgruppen and regions. It began by taking an inventory of existing communication methods and is looking for better ways to communicate. Its three most important assignments are (i) to refine the methods of national distribution of materials pertaining to professional development and to establish guidelines for the distribution of such materials, (ii) to establish a Home Page for Basisgruppen on the WWW and (iii) to set up an electronic discussion list and bulletin board for members of Basisgruppen.
2. Political Action and Advertising
This group is taking an inventory of all political lobbying and advertising campaigns that have already taken place. The group's mandate is to produce a kit for political action and advertising that can be adapted for each region by teachers in regional Basisgruppen.
3. Basisgruppen Management
This group has the mandate to produce a manual on the management of Basisgruppen. The manual will be designed to help regional Basisgruppen to manage their affairs more effectively and to assist teachers wishing to get started in Basisgruppen work.
Susan Evans (Ontario)
Annemarie Heinze (Ontario)
Karl Langelotz (Manitoba)
* DORIS MUHS (Alberta) muhs@oanet.com
Ortrud Newton (Vancouver)
André Oberlé (Manitoba)
Rupert Barensteiner (Manitoba)
* Bernd Desinger (Ontario) 102140.2515@compuserve.com
Esther Enns (Alberta)
Chris Lorey (Atlantic Region)
Gareth Neufeld (Manitoba)
Helga Sacher (Quebec)
Joanne van Donzel (Alberta)
Valerie Witham (British Columbia)
Harold Epp (Manitoba)[Table of Contents]
* JUERGEN JAHN (Alberta) jahn@acs.ucalgary.ca
Michael Kage (Ontario)
Gwyneth Kingham (British Columbia)
Hans-Rudolf Lanker (Bern, Schweiz)
Karin Mollinger (Quebec)
Hannah Noerenberg (Alberta)
Edith Wiebe (Manitoba)
British Columbia: Thomas Schultze, Vancouver, (604) 732-3966[Table of Contents]
(schultze@goethe-van.org)
Alberta: Joanne van Donzel, Calgary (403) 652-7685
(vdonzj@cadvision.com)
Manitoba: André Oberlé, Winnipeg (204) 786-9304
(oberle@io.uwinnipeg.ca)
Ontario: Susan Evans, Toronto, (416) 282-6704
(Susan_Evans@sbe.scarborough.on.ca)
Québec: Helga Sacher, Duvernay-Laval, (514) 667-5582
Atlantic Region: Chris Lorey (lorey@unb.ca)
President: Chris Lorey, Department of German, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB (lorey@unb.ca)
Présidente: Helga Sacher, 2370 Place Champfleury, Duvernay-Laval, PQ, H7E 2L3
President: Robert Hart, 190 Belsize Dr., Toronto, ON, M4S 1M2
President: André Oberlé, German Studies, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Voice Mail: (204) 786-9046, Fax: (204) 783-3116, E-mail: andre.oberle@uwinnipeg.ca
President: Cornelia Taschow, Distance Education, Government Correspondence School, 1651 Jubilee Ave., Regina, SK, S4S 3T5
President: Joanne van Donzel, 925-5th St. W., High River, AB T1V 1A7; Fax: 403-652-7384; E-mail: vandonzj@cadvision.com
President: Ortrud Newton, 1170 Nepal Place, Vancouver, BC, V7T 2H1, E-mail: newton@web.apc.org
President: Annemarie Heinze, 481 Guildwood Pkwy, Westhill, ON, M1E 1R3
President: Linda Dietrick, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9, Fax: (204) 774-4134, E-mail: dietrick@io.uwinnipeg.ca[Table of Contents]
André Oberlé[Table of Contents]
Germanic Studies
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B 2E9
Tel.: (204) 786-9304, Fax (204) 774-4134
(oberle@uwinnipeg.ca)Esther Enns
Germanic, Slavic and East-Asian Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4
Fax: (403) 284-3810
(eenns@acs.ucalgary.ca)
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