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Brown
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| Winter
2008 Session |
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Brown Bag Talk |
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Teaching
Grammar online - Strategies to encourage student interaction in
the target language and to foster active learning
by Sandra Hobbs
Sandra Hobbs received a FLTC Mini-Grant for an instructional technology
project. As part of her project she developed online material for
her French Grammar course.
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Her
objective with this project was to encourage interactions between
students in the target language as they completed tasks, and also,
to make students more active and independent learners (by decreasing
dependency on the textbook and the instructor).
Sandra says: In this talk, I will discuss the strategies I used
to achieve these goals, such as using Discussion Board and file
exchange features within Blackboard to facilitate student exchanges
outside of the classroom, and putting all student assignments, along
with the materials needed to complete them, in Blackboard. I will
also discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the hybrid course format
I adopted for this course (1 traditional class meeting per week,
increased time spent on the internet). |
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1.00 p.m.
– 2.00 p.m. |
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Venue:
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Japan Learning
Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Date: |
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Wednesday,
January 23, 2008 |
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Sandra
Hobbs will talk about how she uses technology, how it enhances the
teaching and learning process, what obstacles there were and how she
got over them, what works and what does not, both in terms of pedagogy
and technology. Of course, she will also take your questions.
If you are interested and your schedule permits, do stop by to hear
Sandra!
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Russian
Listening Comprehension Online by Laura Kline
Laura Kline received an FLTC Mini-grant to create an on-line
Russian Listening Comprehension course. The course allows students
to improve their listening comprehension skills by working at their
own pace through 28 short episodes of the popular Russian series
Erelash.
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Laura
says “It also has made it possible for us to increase departmental
offerings in Russian with relatively minimal demands on faculty.
Available on Blackboard, this course includes written and audio
vocabulary lists for each lesson,as well as self-grading exercises
and exams, which provide students with immediate feedback on their
work. At the Brown Bag I will talk about how this course was created
and how it is functioning to date.” |
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11.00
a.m. – 12.00 p.m. |
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Venue:
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Japan Learning
Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Wednesday,
February 6, 2008 |
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Learning
Italian Through Music: An
Online Music Festival In Basic And Intermediate Courses by Laura
Schneider
Laura Schneider received a FLTC Mini-Grant for an instructional
technology project. As part of her project she developed an online
repository of Italian music.
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Laura
says: The project had many goals: to put together lesson plans for
our part-time faculty (thus providing a model), to create a music
database, but most importantly to create a community of learners
through common and shared goals. Again, one of the objectives was
to have students from different classes and levels talk with each
other and provide comprehensible input to each other in the zone
of proximal development. In other words, the novelty of the project
is in the community-wide participation. In fact, students from different
classes and levels communicated with one another and also opened
themselves up to the comments by the online Italian community through
the blogs.
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11.30 a.m.
– 12.30 p.m.
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Venue:
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Japan Learning
Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Date: |
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Monday,
February 25, 2008
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Laura
Schneider will talk about how she uses technology, how it enhances
the teaching and learning process, what obstacles there were and how
she got over them, what works and what does not, both in terms of
pedagogy and technology.
If you are interested do stop by to hear Laura! There will be refreshments
too.
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iGoldenAge
by
José A. Rico-Ferrer
José A. Rico-Ferrer received a FLTC Mini-Grant for an instructional
technology project. Jose’s project involved the development
of video Podcasts containing reference material, normally contained
in Art History, History, Geography, Mythology, and Emblems books.
Jose intended using the Podcast material in the Spanish 6430 Course,
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Jose
says: The availability of podcast technology makes the process of
learning more customized, and more productive, due to the student’s
increased exposure to the material. Not only do video iPods relieve
students of the need for going to the Reserve desk, they also enable
them to hear different lectures on their own schedule, freeing class
time for in-text discussions. Podcasts are useful on upper level
courses, allowing students to hear lectures either in English or
Spanish, while exposing them to relevant graphic or visual material.
This
presentation will discuss the challenges and procedures of locating
and selecting appropriate images and film clips, generating a transcript,
recording and editing the audio, setting the images and film clips
to the audio, and making the finished podcasts available to the
class.
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12.30
p.m. – 1.30 p.m. |
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Venue: |
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Japan
Learning Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Date: |
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Tuesday,
March 18, 2008 |
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Jose
will talk about how he uses technology, how it enhances the teaching
and learning process, what obstacles there were and how she got
over them, what works and what does not, both in terms of pedagogy
and technology.
If you are interested in Podcasts, iPods or the GoldenAge come on
over! Coffee and Cookies will be served!
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Teaching
Language with Movies: A New and Easy Way to Create Your
Own Authentic Materials by
Alexandra Pakh
Sasha Pákh-Kelly received a FLTC Mini-Grant for an instructional
technology project last year. Sasha’s project involved the
development of authentic materials for teaching grammatical elements
and speech acts in the German language classroom. The project proposed
to create online learning components in the form of excerpts of
German cinema films, which will be used to introduce, illustrate,
and practice particular grammatical elements (e.g., the past tense,
use of modal verbs) and communicative exchanges (e.g., greetings,
introductions, asking for directions).
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Sasha
says: With the use of technology in foreign language instruction
we can hit several birds with one stone. Using movie clips for teaching
enables us to bring in an authentic audiovisual component that is
appealing to students as they work with channels they are familiar
with. In addition, we can address more than one aspect of learning
by combining listening comprehension with the development of grammar
and cultural skills. |
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1.00
p.m. – 2.00 p.m. |
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Venue: |
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Japan
Learning Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Date: |
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Monday,
March 31, 2008 |
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Sasha
will talk about how she uses technology, how it enhances the teaching
and learning process, what obstacles there were and how she got
over them, what works and what does not, both in terms of pedagogy
and technology.
Do stop by, there will be Coffee and Cookies too!
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The
Emil Reading Suite, Podcasts to enhance Reading Comprehension
by
Randy Schantz
Randy Schantz received a FLTC Mini-Grant for an instructional technology
project last year. Randy’s project involved the development
of Podcasts for
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reading
material. The Emil Reading Suite is a technological package for
the abridged novel Emil und die Detektive currently used in German
2010. The reading suite is made up of two parts. One part of the
package is podcasts of the text together with images, pictures and
video clips. The second part includes already prepared pre- and
post-reading exercises and new group projects and games to be used
in conjunction with the readings. |
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12.00
p.m. – 1.00 p.m. |
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Venue: |
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Japan
Learning Center, 385 Manoogian |
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Date: |
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Tuesday,
April 15 , 2008 |
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Randy
will talk about how he uses technology, how it enhances the teaching
and learning process, what obstacles there were and how he got over
them, what works and what does not, both in terms of pedagogy and
technology.
Do stop by, there will be Coffee and Cookies too!
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