FALL 2007 Technology Training Series
for Foreign
Language Teaching
The Haverford College Information Resources through the Language Learning
Center is offering a technology training series for Foreign Language Faculty.
All the workshops are geared toward foreign language teaching. Any interested
faculty are welcome to attend. The workshops are offered Tuesday afternoon
for one hour from 3pm to 4pm. The LLC is reserved from 4-5pm after the
workshop for you to work on your own with the assistance of Hiroyo Saito,
the director of the Language Learning Center.
If you have any questions, please send a message to Hiroyo
Saito (hsaito@haverford.edu).
1. Pronunciation/ speaking assignments using Audacity
and Blackboard
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Time: 3-4pm
Place: Language Learning Center (Stokes 205)
Instructor: Hiroyo Saito
Who should attend: Any faculty who want to assign
speaking/pronunciation exercises in an organized way or want to create
their own audio files.
After this workshop, you will be able to:
• Set up assignment folders, check students' audio recordings,
download the recordings to a folder, and provide feedback.
• Describe the difference between assignment folders and a digital dropbox.
• Use Audacity to create your own audio files and upload them to Blackboard.
• Edit audio files with Audacity.
This
workshop focuses on speaking/pronunciation assignments. However, what you
will learn in the workshop can be also applied to written assignments.
2.
Using Blog in Blackboard
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Time: 3-4pm
Place: Language Learning Center (Stokes 205)
Instructor: Hiroyo Saito
Who should attend: Any faculty who want to use the
blog/journal tool in Blackboard to improve students' writing.
After this
workshop, you will be able to:
• Set up a blog and configure it.
• Post pictures and audio files to a blog.
• Make a short movie with the built-in video camera on an LLC computers
and post it on a blog.
• Edit a QuickTime movie with QuickTime Pro.
• Give feedback on students' writing on a blog with various editing tools.
• Create links on a blog.
3. Using Wiki in Blackboard
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 3-4pm
Place: Language Learning Center (Stokes 205)
Instructor: Hiroyo Saito
Who should attend: Any faculty who want students
to work on collaborative writing projects.
After
this workshop, you will be able to:
• Set up a wiki and configure it.
• Post pictures and audio files to a wiki.
• Make a short movie with the built-in video camera on an LLC computers
and post it on a wiki.
• Edit a QuickTime movie with QuickTime Pro.
• Give feedback on students' writing with various editing tools.
• Create links on a wiki.
Ideas for wiki projects in foreign language classes
will be discussed.
4. Using Chat and Groups tools in Blackboard
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Time: 3-4pm
Place: Language Learning Center (Stokes 205)
Instructor: Hiroyo Saito
Who should attend: Any faculty who want to use the
chat tool to increase the chances that students "speak" in
class or want to provide students with various group communication tools
including chat capability.
After this workshop, you will be able
to:
• Set up a chat session, send private messages during the chat
session, and archive the chat session.
• Set up groups so that each group has its own chat, file exchange, email
sending, and group discussion board capabilities.
5. Creating
online quizzes and anonymous surveys using Blackboard
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time: 3-4pm
Place: Language Learning Center (Stokes
205)
Instructor: Hiroyo Saito
Who should attend: Any faculty who want to create
online listening/reading comprehension quizzes and anonymous surveys.
After
this workshop, you will be able to:
• Create online multiple choice quizzes
for listening comprehension using audio and video files.
• Create online multiple choice quizzes for reading comprehension.
• Create online short essay quizzes.
• Create anonymous surveys.
• Check students' quiz scores and answers in the Gradebook.
• Check students' anonymous survey results in the Gradebook.
