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Mini-Grant
Recipients for 2007 |
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To encourage faculty to explore
the meaningful use of technology in foreign language instruction
the FLTC awards Mini-grant to projects that involve the development
of instruction of foreign languages with technology. The FLTC funds
projects that incorporate the use of latest technologies into existing
foreign language courses to achieve specific learning objectives.
Recipients of the awards are expected to begin and complete working
on their project during the Spring/Summer semester and implement
their projects in the Fall semester.
The FLTC selects proposals that involve innovative use of technology
in teaching and awards each proposal up to a maximum of $2000. All
full-time and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants
teaching foreign languages are eligible to submit a proposal.
This year the FLTC introduced a new award for Graduate Students
teaching foreign language courses. Details about the recipients
of the mini-grants for this year and a description of their projects
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Developing
Online Course Materials for Advanced Grammar in French: Helping Students
Become More Active Learners by Sandra Hobbs, Assistant Professor,
CMLLC (French) |
This project involves using online
course components to create a blended or hybrid version of an existing
course, French 5305, which is an advanced grammar course. The benefit
of missing traditional class meetings with online components is
that it exploits each teaching method's advantages. The plan is
to create a 'Virtual Textbook' by gathering grammar explanations
in digital format and placing them in the course website in Blackboard.
Students will actively explore these explanations as well as online
resources as they complete online grammar exercises designed to
improve their knowledge and application of the rules of French grammar. |
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Italian
Music Awareness by Laura Schneider, Lecturer, CMLLC (Italian) |
This project involves the creation
of a website accessible to all students enrolled in the Italian
basic courses (ITA 1010, ITA 1020, and ITA 2010), intermediate and
advanced classes to explore Italian music. Instructors will have
access to a sequence of Italian music videos and corresponding lesson
plans that are level-appropriate. Each lesson plan will include
a WebQuest activity on the band, on Italian music festivals, and
on different music genres. For each song, a blog will be created
where students can post their comments and personal reaction to
the song. |
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Emil
Reading Suite by Randy Schantz, PT Faculty, CMLLC (German) |
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.
Emil Reading Suite by Randy Schantz
http://podcast.fltc.wayne.edu/weblog/randy/
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iGoldenAge
by José A. Rico-Ferrer, Assistant Professor, CMLLC (Spanish) |
| This project involves the creation of video podcasts
containing reference material normally contained in Art History, History,
Geography, Mythology, and Emblems books. Armed with a video iPod,
students will be able to hear lectures at their leisure, freeing class
time for discussions of Spanish literature. This material will be
used in the Spanish 6430 Course, Spanish Literature of the Baroque.
Furthermore, the reference information will be useful for any of the
Spanish 6000-level classes, and for the graduate seminar. |
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iGoldenAge by Jose A. Rico-Ferrer
http://podcast.fltc.wayne.edu/weblog/jose/ |
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Listening
Comprehension: Computer-based Learning Using On-Tine Video Materials
by Laura Kline, Lecturer, CMLLC (Russian) |
| The goal of this project is to create an on-line listening
comprehension course for students of Russian. Students would watch
video materials such as cartoons, TV shows, and movies on Blackboard.
Students would work through these materials with the help of Russian-Language
vocabulary lists and interactive exercises to test listening comprehension.
Each 20-minute segment of the video materials would be followed by
a graded quiz on Blackboard. The student would take an on-line final
after working through all materials. This course would be offered
during the Fall and Winter semesters and, if possible, during the
Spring/Summer Semester as well. |
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Graduate
Student Award
On-line Learning Components: Utilizing German Film clips
for Teaching Grammar by Suzanne K. Hilgendorf, Assistant Professor,
and Sasha Pákh, PT Faculty, CMLLC (German) |
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| In order to make German language instruction more meaningful,
engaging, and thus effective, this project seeks to use authentic
materials for teaching grammatical elements and speech acts in the
German language classroom. The project proposes to create on-line
learning components in the form of excerpts of German cinema films,
which will be used to introduced, 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). These on-line components will first be used in the classroom
to introduce specific curricular topics, then posted on-line in Blackboard
for students to review and work with independently. |
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