{"304941":{"#nid":"304941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wiedorn and Ippolito Secure Fulbright - Hays Group Project Abroad Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EModern Languages is pleased to announce that 11 Atlanta Public Schools teachers and Dr. Michael Wiedorn are currently studying the Wolof language and Senegalese culture in Dakar, thanks to a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad project grant obtained by Dr. Michael Wiedorn, Principal Investigator, and Dr. Christophe Ippolito, co-Principal Investigator, French, Modern Languages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSenegalese Curriculum Development for Georgia\u201d is a June 2014 four-week group project that brings eleven Atlanta public school teachers, one Georgia Tech ML faculty member as Program Director, and the Georgia Tech Associate Director for Teacher Education Partnerships to the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal. There they study the Wolof language and Senegalese culture, neither of which is available for study in the Atlanta area, a city hosting the country\u2019s second-largest Senegalese population. The project\u2019s central objectives are curriculum development at the high school and university level, in addition to creating exchanges and collaborations among educators and their surrounding communities in Senegal and Atlanta. This project uses the Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program for pre-departure and follow-up programs as well as the connections already in place thanks to the School of Modern Languages study abroad program in French in Dakar and Georgia Tech\u2019s relationship with Atlanta Public Schools, and MSIs in particular. This project is supported by Modern Languages and the IAC Dean\u2019s Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDollar amount of federal funds for this project was $55,000; the percentage of the total cost of the project that will be financed with federal funds is 68%; the percentage and dollar amount of the total cost of the project that will be financed by non-governmental sources is 32%.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe contents of this page were developed under a grant from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA), U.S. Department of Education. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/programs\/iegpsgpa\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.ed.gov\/programs\/iegpsgpa\/index.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Wiedorn and Ippolito Secure Fulbright - Hays Grant That Funds a cultural exchange for 11 Atlanta Teachers in Dakar."}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"11 Atlanta teachers are currently learning Wolof and African culture in Dakar, thanks to a 2013 Fulbright-Hays grant obtained by Michael Wiedorn, Principal Investigator, and Christophe Ippolito, co-PI, French, Modern Languages"}],"uid":"27835","created_gmt":"2014-06-24 15:23:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:41","author":"Shamiso Barnett","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"304931":{"id":"304931","type":"image","title":"Dakar","body":null,"created":"1449244637","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:17","changed":"1475895012","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:12","alt":"Dakar","file":{"fid":"199674","name":"dakar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dakar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dakar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":44021,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dakar_0.jpg?itok=Gp9Hc-1b"}}},"media_ids":["304931"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"96251","name":"Dakar French"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.wiedorn@modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emichael.wiedorn@modlangs.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:christophe.ippolito@modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Echristophe.ippolito@modlangs.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Shamiso.Barnett@modlangs.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}