Language Technology Workshop

July 9-13, 2001

UCSB

 

Purpose:

Introduce UC language professionals to the effective ways of integrating technology (CD-ROMs, Web, CMC) into the foreign language curriculum.

 
Seminar leaders:

Dorothy Chun (UCSB, German)

Hsiao-jung (Sharon) Yu (UCSB, Chinese)

María Victoria González Pagani (UCSC, Spanish)

 

 

Tim McGovern (UCSB, Spanish)

David Hiple (National Foreign Language Resource Center, UH, Chinese, Korean)

Stephen Fleming (National Foreign Language Resource Center, UH, Chinese, Korean)

 
Location:

Kerr Hall 2160 (Macintosh G4 Lab) - Click here for map of UCSB campus.

 
Funding:

The Consortium will fully subsidize travel, 5-day lodging, and one main meal (Faculty Club) each day for all participants.

 
Accommodations:

UCSB San Rafael Guest House

 
Follow-up:

Participants will be responsible for reporting back to their respective campuses transferring their new technology insights to the rest of their language faculty.

*NOTE*: The First UC Conference on Language Learning: Theoretical and
Pedagogical Perspective will take place at UC Irvine, March 8-10, 2002. You can apply online.

 

 

Goals:

This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to using technology in service to language learning. It will begin with an overview of distance education and distributed learning in its broadest conception, focusing on institution-level (inter-campus) types of collaboration. A concrete example of the NFLRC Chinese and Korean on-line courses will be presented. The workshop will continue with a brief discussion of the underlying theories and principles to draw upon in the development and implementation of computer-assisted courseware for language learning. Existing UC projects will be show-cased, and criteria for evaluating existing courseware (both on CD-ROMs and on the Web) will be discussed. Participants will be introduced to some basic tools for developing Web-based materials and will plan and begin to implement their own projects during the course of the week. The goal is not to fully train participants but rather to provide examples of what has been done, what can be done, and to stimulate new ideas and collaborations.

 

Day 1 - Kerr Hall 2160

Time Instructors Topic Materials/Activities
9:00 Marshall Welcome by Dean David Marshall  
9:10-10:00 Hiple/Fleming Introduction "Technology in Service to Language Learning": Overview of Distance Ed and Distributed Learning Paper by Hiple and Fleming
10:00-11:00 Hiple/Fleming Starting with Pedagogy: Web-based Course Design  
11:00-12:00 Hiple/Fleming Developmental history of NFLRC Chinese projects/Web tour of Chinese and Korean on-line courses Hands-on tour
1:00-3:00 Hiple/Fleming Brainstorming your dream project (see "guiding questions checklist") Make a storyboard of your project
3:00-4:00 Hiple/Fleming Feedback on the brainstorming process Tweak storyboards

 

Day 2

Time Instructors Topic Materials/Activities
9:00-10:00 Chun Principles of applying SLA and multimedia learning theories to courseware development History of CALL: Warschauer; on-line journal: Language Learning & Technology articles; generative theory of multimedia learning (Mayer)
10:00-11:00

Hiple/Fleming

 

Evaluation criteria for Web-based courseware (Where is the fit between teaching particular language components with technology?)

  
11:00-12:00 Hiple/Fleming

What technology do I need to implement my dream project?

  • Lessons learned from UH NFLRC 2001 Sum Inst [font issues?]
  • Technology choices made by development teams
 
1:00-2:00 G-Pagani Basic concepts, site structure and organization of a website Hands-on: Everyone starts own page
2:00-4:00 G-Pagani Introduction to basic tools (including ftp) Dreamweaver

 

Day 3

Time Instructors Topic Materials/Activities
9:00-11:00 McGovern Language tutorials, links to authentic materials, Web search activities, supplements to textbooks UCSB's Spanish & Portuguese website; UCLA's Oggi in Italia; Blyth's Untangling the Web
11:00-12:00

Kagan

Chun

 UC projects UCLA's Russian site; UCSB's Les Bijoux, La grande vie
1:00-4:00 McGovern, Clay, Jacob Introduction to advanced tools for Web development (templates enhancing html pages, e.g., CourseBuilder, Makers, Hot Potatoes, Game-o-matic). Add some exercises/activities to your project page
  *NEW!*

Hot Potatoes Hints (from S. Clay)

CourseBuilder Hints (from M. Jacob)

SITT (UC Davis) Tutorials

  

 

Day 4

Time Instructors Topic Materials/Activities
9:00-10:00 G-Pagani Content-based intstruction; integration with classroom activities UCSC's Spanish 1-3T
10:00-12:00 G-Pagani Distance Learning Spanish; Beginning Spanish Tesoros
1:00-2:00

G-Pagani

Fahy

 Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and electronic literacy Remote Collaboration Tool; basic chat functions, instant messaging; bulletin boards, forums; wimba)
2:00-4:00

G-Pagani

McGovern

 Tools: scanning, adding audio, video Photoshop, iMovie, SoundEdit

 

Day 5

Time Instructors Topic Materials/Activities
9:00-10:00 Yu Demonstration and hands-on use of existing CD-ROMs CyberChinese (phonology and grammar)
10:00-11:00 Chun

Intermediate Spanish/German (reading)

Student-created sites

CyberBuch/Ciberteca

UCI's German site; UCLA's French site; MIT's Cultura site

11:00-12:00

Chun OR

Yu

 Evaluation of CALL software OR Language for Business OR metacollege/WebCT/ Blackboard/PageOut/

NFLRC site (Thompson) OR Business Chinese CD-ROM/ WebCT website; OR Blake's metacollege course

  *NEW* Selected Websites for Asian Languages (from H-j Yu)  
1:00-2:00   Brief presentations of dream projects  
2:00-4:00 All Wrap-up, discussion of how to integrate courseware into curriculum, plans for follow-up and dissemination Workshop Evaluation

 

Recommended Reading and Resources:

 

Participants:

UC BERKELEY

UC DAVIS

UC IRVINE

UCLA

UC RIVERSIDE

UC SANTA BARBARA

UC SANTA CRUZ

 

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