MAALT CONFERENCEReaching the Foreign Language Learner with Technology

Digital Media and Language Development for

Students and Instructors

February 20, 2009

Dr. Danielle Cahill Velardi

dcahill@cnu.edu

Assoc. Prof. of Spanish

Chair of MCLL

Christopher Newport University

TECHNOLOGY = PASSPORT “There will be a day, not far distant, when you will be able to conduct business, study, explore the world and its cultures, call up any great entertainment, make friends, attend neighborhood markets, and show pictures to distant relatives — without leaving your desk or armchair. It will be more than an object you carry or an appliance you purchase. It will be your passport into a new, mediated way of life.”

Bill Gates (1955-)

The Road Ahead, 1995. Microsoft Chairman.

http://www.famousquotes.com/by_category.php?letter=t

Ways to Enhance Student Learning

PowerPoint Presentations Web-based Activities YouTube Videos Songs and Music Videos Games

Effects of PowerPoint on Learning

Higher grades Reinforces information that has been stated Gives a more credible perception

HOWEVER Can deter classroom interaction

http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint

OR http://www.slideshare.net/satyajeet_02/how-to-make-effective-presentation

(Sharon Whitfield Multimedia Librarian of CNU Trible Library)

HELPFUL HINTS

Create slides that are clear and concise are interesting and easy to follow reinforce what you are saying are visually attractive but not chaotic

Know your audience and student expectations

Take advantage of the technology creating easy and quick links (Students’ interest will peak)

AVOID LONG NARRATIVES

Rubén Darío participó con, muchos movimientos literarios en Chile, España, Argentina, y Nicaragua. El movimiento modernista era una recopilación de tres movimientos de Europa: romanticismo, símbolismo, y el parnasianismo. Estas ideas expresan pasión, arte visual, y armonías y ritmos como música.

Prosas Profanas representa la esencia del “Modernismo" tanto en el predominio de las imágenes exóticas, liras, colias, ebúrneos cisnes, bufones escarlatas, pavos reales, siringos agrestes, púberes, caméforas. Y los ambientes aristocráticos. En sus Prosas Profanas, el modernismo preciosista caracterizado por la fantasia, la exquisitez, el exotismo, y el cosmopolitismo.

Pronto muchos literarios comenzaron a usar su estilo en una forma muy elgante, y cuidadosa, usando su estilo y sus palabras para hacer musíca con la poesía.

Increasing Retention

Start out Strong (Joke, anecdote, statistic…)

Limit slide text to chunks of 7 (Simple is better)

Must be treated as an “amplifier of cognition” Technology=enhancer

Style, style, stylehttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspxMust allow cookies to download clipart at this site.

(Sharon Whitfield Multimedia Librarian of CNU Trible Library)

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See & Hear

(Sharon Whitfield Multimedia Librarian of CNU Trible Library)

Recommended Style Guidelines Use Sans Serif (like Arial)

>16 pt font Only 3 colors per slides Limit animation and transitions Dark background, light font Light background, dark font Pick colors with Palette Man and Color

Calculatorhttp://www.sessions.edu/ilu/

(Sharon Whitfield Multimedia Librarian of CNU Trible Library)

Use Navigation ToolsAction Key

Perform the next animation or move to the next slide

N, Return, Page Down, Right Arrow, Down Arrow,  Spacebar,mouse left-click

Return to the previous animation or back to the previous slide.

P, Page Up, Left Arrow,UP ARROW

Go to slide (number) (Number)+return

Display a black screen, or return to the slide show from a black screen

B,

Display a white screen, or return to the slide show from a white screen

W

End a slide show ESC

Erase on-screen annotations E

List the navigation control F1

Ctrl+T Taskbar

(Sharon Whitfield Multimedia Librarian of CNU Trible Library)

ONLINE POWERPOINT SITES

Go to http://www.slideshare.net/ Go to http://www.show.zoho.com Go to http://www.slideboom.com Go to http://www.authorstream.com Search for any topic imaginable in the

SEARCH box.

Imbedding a YouTube Video into a Slideshare Powerpoint

Step 1: Upload to Slideshare as usual Step 2: Click “Edit” and select “Insert

YouTube videos” Step 3: Paste the YouTube URL into the

box Step 4: Select where you want the video

to be inserted Step 5: Hit “Insert and Publish”

http://blog.slideshare.net/2009/01/20/slideshare-takes-over-youtube/

Insert a Video in PowerPoint

http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpoint2007/ss/071213youtube07.htm

OR

Make your own Video

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/e8ZSq4RECzhPnzYD1gL2OC1p

LAS EMPANADAS

Allison & Heather

LA COCINA DE ALLISON Y HEATHER

Empanadas

Web-based Activities

LA TOMATINA 1.doc Cultural Literacy Vocabulary Grammatical Structures Oral Comprehension Reading Comprehension

BUÑOL, ESPAÑA

LA TOMATINA

Vocabulario del video:

VERBOS REGULARES/PRESENTE AR ER IR

lanzar/arrojar/tirar/echar: to throw O O O

gritar: to shout AS ES ES

caminar: to walk A E E

Music Videos

Electronic Bio of Group

http://www.lamadredeltopo.es/

Lyrics and Link to Song

(fusion of rock, pop, flamenco & rumba)

Las mariposas.doc

Music Contests

“Mi carro” de Manolo Escobar (1969)http://tu.tv/videos/mi-carro-manolo-escobar

“Mi carro” de Manolo Escobar y El Koala (2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPaLa_cL0U0

Contest between El Koala y La madre del Topo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPRHyBQRWeU&feature=related

TRAVEL VIDEOS

Cuba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAGNFkI-18&feature=related

Madrid de los Austrias

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsiPSrff53Q

Go to YouTube and type in “MuchoViaje” and

the country or city you are studying

GAMES

http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm General Links http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/Documents/JeopardyDirections.do Directions

for making Jeopardy game http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/ Make your own

flashcards

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/TKeKDOQ0io637mAD

Links C:\Documents and Settings\dcahill\

Desktop\SPAN 201\Cap 1\Enlaces.doc C:\Documents and Settings\dcahill\

Desktop\SPAN 201\Canciones\Canciones.doc