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Instructional
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The Power of
Online Listening - Last year, thanks to FLTC generosity,
I received a mini-grant to make “Let’s Learn Polish”,
a series of 30 well-produced and entertaining videos showing the
daily life of a Polish family, their problems and joys, as well
as Polish traditions, available to students on the FLTC server... more |
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Russian Listening
Comprehension: Computer-Based Learning Using Online Video Materials
for Advanced Students - One of the more difficult Russian
language skills to teach in the classroom is listening comprehension.
Mastering this skill requires significant exposure to the spoken
language, which class time constraints do not permit. Moreover,
students need to be exposed to a variety of different speakers with
different types of enunciation, rates of speech, and vocabulary... more
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Emil
und die Detektive -
As Sangeetha
Gopalakrishnan says, iPods are ubiquitous. How-ever, iPods were
not of my gen-eration. But that was then, and now….
My project was to create podcasts to supplement the reader, Emil
und die Detektive, which students read in German 2010 of the Beginning
German Language Se-quence (BGLS). The purpose of the podcasts was
to make the reading more accessible to students ... more
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Listening Comprehension:
Computer-Based Learning Using Online Video Materials - The
goal of this project was to create a listening comprehension course
for students of Russian. In our regular Russian courses, students
watch videos and listen to audio recordings in order to develop
their listening skills... more |
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iMythology
- Podcasts, short recorded files which can include both audio and
video, were originally developed as part of the revolution that
began with the Apple iPod. While early podcasts were mostly for
entertainment purposes, their potential as an educational tool has
quickly been exploited by teachers at all levels all over the country... more |
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The
Virtual Textbook - Last summer, I obtained
an FLTC Mini-Grant to develop online course materials for French
2720, Contemporary Quebec Culture. This course is built around films
that portray Quebec society from the early 20th century to the present
day. The course was divided into five time periods, and students
watched two films per time period... more
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Supporting Students'
Listening Skills and Language Learning Through Video Animations -
My project consists of the creation of a series of six short films
created with anima-tion software. These videos will present situa-tions
involving a small group of characters and will be used in my ITA1010
class primarily for listening com-prehension exercises....more
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Creating
'This American Life' with iPods
- Why did you come to the United States?” asks Yolande. She
poses this question to one of several immigrants she is interviewing.
She records the interviews on an iPod fitted with a Griffin iTalk,
a recording device. She, along with other students in her group,
is putting together an audio story for a class project... .more
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