Audio Recording & Audacity
Improving Oral Skills with Audacity (1 hour)
Audacity is a free audio recording program that is both powerful and easy to use. It allows your students to listen to audio files and record their own voices. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use the program, discuss possible activities, and have time to practice using Audacity on your own.
Record, Edit, and Play! - Creating your own AV materials with Audacity (30 minutes - 1 hour)
In this short, hands-on workshop, you'll immediately start creating your own digital audio recordings, using freely available, easy to use software. The workshop also includes an introduction to audio editing, and an explanation of the various digital audio formats in use today.
Field Recording Basics - Analog and Digital Recording while Out and About (1 hour)
In order to get authentic materials for language classes, you sometimes need to record on the go. This workshop introduces equipment and techniques you'll need when recording in the field.
Chat
Chat - Improving Confidence and Fluency with Online Chats (1 - 1 1/2 hours)
Chat is a wonderful tool for increasing confidence and competence for language students of all levels. Best of all, LSS makes it possible for your class to chat in one of our labs, or even in your Van Hise classroom! This workshop covers both the pedagogical benefits and the technical side of chats.
L&S Collaborative Sites
The L&S Collaborative Sites Platform
presentation materials coming soon!
L&S LessonShare
L&S LessonShare: Networking the Lesson Plan
May 30, 2007 at the UW-Madison Teaching and Learning Symposium
presented with Mike Olson (Dept. of German), Katy Prantil, Alice Astarita (Dept. of French and Italian), and Sue Weier (L&S LSS)Social Networking tools are often described as "the next big thing" in online communication. L&S LessonShare, a new social networking tool developed by Letters & Science Learning Support Services, allows communities of instructors to quickly and easily share, organize, and collaboratively improve their lessons, handouts, and other teaching materials. LessonShare preserves the wealth of experience gained by previous teachers while facilitating innovative materials development. It also encourages instructors to adapt lessons for diverse learning styles and teaching scenarios. This session explores next steps in socially networked lesson planning.
Instructional Technology and Emerging Trends
PSU's Hot Teams - rapid evaluation of emerging technologies
April 25, 2007 at the ComETS Emerging Trends Mashup
This presentation introduced Penn State's innovative "Hot Team" approach, and explored how it might be adapted for the distributed technology support landscape at UW Madison.
Social Networking and Remix Culture
June 1, 2007 at the UW Madison Teaching and Learning Symposium
Multimedia LessonBuilder
Is it difficult to find interactive multimedia lessons for your students? Why not make your own? Multimedia LessonBuilder allows teachers to produce highly professional online lessons without programming knowledge. In this hands-on workshop, participants will try out sample lessons and then build a mini-lesson with the authoring tool.
- Sample lesson - Local Living in Madison Wisconsin - This lesson introduces local culture in Madison, Wisconsin. The focus is on shopping, and during the lesson students get to visit three local shops and listen to the owners describe their stores. This lesson is an introduction to a unit on the effects of globalization on local culture.
- LessonBuilder Handout
- Getting Started with LessonBuilder in 15 (somewhat) easy steps
- LessonBuilder templates - to help plan your lesson
- LessonBuilder information on the Engage Website - information about the software development team
- LessonBuilder Licensing Information
Podcasting
Expanding the Wisconsin Idea: Extending the Classroom through Podcasting
May 31, 2007 at the UW-Madison Teaching and Learning Symposium
presented with Ron Cramer (DoIT Academic Technology)How do we use podcasting to extend the borders of the campus to the borders of the state? We will discuss the value of podcasting in promoting the excellent teaching, learning and research that occur at the UW-Madison. Our discussion will address the thinking, planning, creation and support of podcasts that appeal both to students and also to the public at large. Sample podcasts created by UW-Madison instructors will be shown and discussed.
Podcasts, Screencasts, and the Wonderful World of RSS (1 hour)
This quick introduction to podcasting introduces you to the basics of recording, distributing, and listening to podcasts. In this one hour session, we'll find out how other language teachers are using podcasts, and then you'll use simple software tools to publish your own podcast. We'll wrap up with a discussion of how podcasting might work for you and your students.
Podcast Polyglots: Language Faculty Speak Beyond the Borders of the Campus
November 7, 2006 at the CIC Learning Technology Group Conference
presented with Ron Cramer (DoIT Academic Technology, UW Madison)In this session, two instructional technologists from the University of Wisconsin talk about how they utilized a new subscription technology and an old idea to encourage language faculty to present engaging language learning opportunities beyond the confines of the campus. You'll see how these faculty members used a combination of multiple production tools and their own creativity to produce effective podcasts that not only increased language contact hours outside of the classroom, but also increased the visibility of their respective languages and departments.
- Presentation Slides (requires Quicktime)
Meet Professor Podcast: Creating and Publishing Academic Podcasts
Jan 16, 2007 at Edgewood College Technology Day
Technology Enhanced Language Learning
What's new in Technology Enhanced Language Learning?
presented on demand each semester for language departments at UW-Madison
Van Hise Labs & Mediated Classrooms
Get Networked - Collaborative Language Learning with ABTutor (1 hour)
The LSS computer language labs are all equipped with ABTutor, a software application that allows you to easily share documents, view and display student screens, and interact with students. In this introductory workshop, you'll learn how to make ABTutor the next tool in your teaching toolbox.
Teaching in Van Hise Mediated Classrooms
The Van Hise mediated classrooms were designed to make it easy to integrate audiovisual materials into your instruction. Please contact me to set up an individual or group training session on any of these rooms. A typical 30-45 minute training session includes time for practice with the equipment as well as any of the following topics:
- AV Overview
- Video Projector Troubleshooting
- Laptop Projection
- Switching from a computer to a video and back again
Wikis and Blogs
Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts - Personal Authoring Technologies Enrich Communication and Expression for You and Your Students
October 23, 2007 at Educause 2007
Personal authoring technologies have made it easier than ever for instructors and students to contribute their thoughts, experiences, and opinions to a global discourse. In addition, these technologies provide a rich opportunity for instructors to focus their students' attention on discipline-specific questions related to a single course or topic.
This seminar will give attendees valuable "face time" with blogs, wikis, and podcasts in order to critically assess their instructional value and creative potential, as well as the IT infrastructure required to support them. We will demonstrate the numerous technologies UW-Madison is using, discuss the pedagogical application and assessment of these technologies, present an overview of IT support challenges, and provide hands-on experiences with the production of blogs, wikis, and podcasts. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of other personal authoring technologies emerging on the educational horizon.
Presented with Blaire Bundy and Ron Cramer (University of Wisconsin Madison - DoIT Academic Technology).
Knowledge Building Communities - Wikis, Blogs, Social Networking, and Remix Culture
August 30, 2007 at the UW Madison College of Engineering Teaching Improvement Program
Making Wikis Work
August 8, 2005 at Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT) 2005
April, 2005 at Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 2005Wikis are collaboratively produced Web pages that turn the dynamics of traditional writing assignments upside-down. They provide a motivating medium in which students engage in an extended writing process. While traditional assignments are generally written by a single author, finished, and then forgotten, Wiki assignments can be written and re-written multiple times by anyone in the class at any time. As a result, the distinctions between author, audience, and evaluator are blurred, allowing students and teachers to approach foreign language writing in entirely new ways. Short-term, limited focus homework assignments become highly extensible teaching tools. Authorship and ownership of a text, once limited to a single student, can now belong to the class as a whole. And most importantly, the writing assignment, once a lonely endeavor, becomes a collaborative social activity, much more capable of developing the student's overall communicative competence. In this workshop, participants will enter the world of Wikis, exploring the dynamics of teaching with this new tool. The presenter will share successes, failures, and lessons learned after implementing Wikis in two foreign language classes. Participants will walk away with concrete examples of effective Wiki writing assignments as well as a greater understanding of what makes Wikis work.
Wikis for Instruction and Research
February 16, 2007 for the DoIT Academic Technology e-Pedagogy Sessions
presented with Andrea Magermans and Subha Xavier (Department of French and Italian, UW Madison)In this session Andrea Magermans and Subha Xavier will discuss various ways in which their students used wikis as a collaborative tool in Introduction to French Literary Analysis classes. They will also explore other possible applications of wikis in language and literature classes at all levels.
Wikis in Language Learning: Audience, Authorship, and Assessment
June 21, 2007 at International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT 2007)
with Lauren Rosen (University of Wisconsin Collaborative Language Program)This session looks at the role of audience, authorship, and assessment in two very different wiki projects – a semester long project in a Japanese course that linked students at a distance and a short term project in a single section of a French course. The presenters will discuss the flexibility of wikis as teaching and learning tools, demonstrating the range of audiences, authorship models, and assessment strategies teachers can consider when designing wiki projects. Participants will leave with new ideas for language learning wikis and a framework to use when planning and reviewing collaborative writing projects.
Wikis and Blogs - What's the difference?
June 4, 2007 at the UW Madison 2007 Teaching Academy Summer Institute
Learning Circle: How Can We Use Wikis to Foster Collaboration that Enhances Teaching and Learning?
May 31, 2007 at the UW-Madison Teaching and Learning Symposium
presented with Ron Cramer (DoIT Academic Technology)
- "big paper" notes kindly taken by a participant at the session
Wireless
Wireless in the Classroom: How does it Impact Instruction?
November 17, 2006 as a part of the DoIT Academic Technology e-Pedagogy Sessions
presented with Peggy Hager (Department of Scandanavian Studies - UW Madison)Wireless Internet access is now available acrsoss campus and in many classrooms. This session will demonstrate how wireless Internet access allows instructors to draw on immediate and relevant teaching materials and increase opportunities for student collaboration. In addition wireless technology makes it possible to bring numerous collaborative multimedia activities into a comfortable classroom environment. Doug and Peggy will discuss the LSS Mobile Computing project and show examples of how wireless handheld technologies can be used for teaching and learning foreign languages.
