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4/22/04 L&S Learning Support Services
Creating a Mobile Language Learning
Environment
University of Wisconsin - MadisonRead Gilgen
http://lss.wisc.edu
4/22/04 L&S Learning Support Services
Disclaimer
OK, so this isn’t really all that legalistic. Just be aware that this presentation was designed for face-to-face discussion, and a fair amount of detail may be missing. Although I’ve added a couple of navigation and descriptive aids, they’re not complete. In addition, if you do use parts of this presentation, please provide proper attribution. Finally, if you have questions about the UW/HP project, please contact me and I’ll provide any information I can.
Read Gilgen, DirectorL&S Learning Support ServicesUniversity of Wisconsin, [email protected]
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The Challenges
• Current language lab 17 years old
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The Challenges
• Changes from analog to digital
• Changes from fixed to virtual
• Faculty more technology aware
• Need for “just in time” technology
• Largest campus classroom building
• Current language lab 17 years old
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The Opportunity
• We were thinking traditional labs
• Limited campus funding
• HP Offered Opportunity to “Think Different”
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The Opportunity
INVENT!
• We were thinking traditional labs
• Limited campus funding
• HP Offered Opportunity to
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The Grant
• HP Contributed $250,000
• UW Contributed $100,000
• LSS Contributed BST + $30,000
• Two Extension Grants $250,000
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The Proposal
• Language Lab
• Mobile carts for classrooms
• Limited Pocket PCs for Students
• Wireless in all classrooms
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The Proposal
• Humanities emphasis
• Language Lab Player
• Secure testing
• Assessment
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TheLanguage
Labs
TheLanguage
Labs
DeploymentDeployment
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DeploymentDeployment
MobileEquipment
MobileEquipment
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DeploymentDeployment
MobileEquipment
MobileEquipment
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DeploymentDeployment
MobileEquipment
MobileEquipment
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DeploymentDeployment
MobileEquipment
MobileEquipment
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DeploymentDeployment
MobileEquipment
MobileEquipment
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Faculty Grants
• IN TIME Program
• $3000 grants for equipment/students
• 30 grants over two years
• Focus on languages and wireless
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Our First Success StoryTagalog Web-based TestingTagalog Web-based Testing
““How come How come this doesn’t this doesn’t work?”work?”
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Our First Success StoryTagalog Web-based TestingTagalog Web-based Testing
““This is way This is way cool!”cool!”
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Our First Success StoryTagalog Web-based TestingTagalog Web-based Testing
““Hey, we Hey, we didn’t learn didn’t learn this in class!”this in class!”
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Implementation
• Faculty projects
• Assessment protocols
• Extension grant modifications
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Faculty Grants
• French/Italian Chats
• French Intro to Literary Analysis
• Danish: IM
• Japanese (Video)
• Ojibwe (Audio)
• Norwegian (Web)
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Norwegian“1. I wanted to bring the internet into the classroom in order to provide authentic material for short periods of class time. I did not want to waste a lot of class time setting things up if I were only going to quickly visit a web-site. 2. My main goal was to foster communication in the target language by using web-based material in small groups.
“I felt that I was able to encourage the students to talk more in small groups when they had the visual material in front of them. For example, when we study clothes and adjectives, I can have a picture gallery of clothes and people dressed differently. In small groups and at their own pace they can talk about the pictures. I can easily reuse the material following semesters and I don't have messy papers to keep track of.
“Finally, the wireless connection for my laptop is exciting. The students loved it and I could plug into a web-site (Norwegian TV, radio) before class began and let the students listen to the day's news.”
--Peggy Hager (Norwegian Instructor)
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Faculty Grants
• Player / Recorder
• Latin meter
• Linguistic Field Methods
• Medieval Spanish
• Comp Lit Comment Collector
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Lessons Learned
• Assessment*
• Faculty/Student Involvement
• Types of Activities
*Click “Assessment” above to go to a series of hidden slides that present the work and preliminary results of surveys conducted at LSS/UW-Madison.
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Lessons Learned
• Logistics
• Costs
• Form Factors
• Foreign Language Input
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Lessons Learned
• Logistics– Scheduling– Faculty/Student Orientation– Classroom setup*
• Costs
• Form Factors
• Foreign Language Input
*Click “Classroom Setup” to see a setup sequence for a typical chat session.
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Lessons Learned
• Logistics
• Costs
• Form Factors
• Foreign Language Input
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The Future
• Speaking/Listening vs. Reading/Writing
• Sustainability
• Scalability
• Impact
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Extensibility
Grants?
Integration?
MobileApplications?
Incentives?
Can this project bereplicated elsewhere?Can this project bereplicated elsewhere?
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How Will It End?
We’re old dogs…
These are new tricks…
But we ARE learning!Rex had a Rex had a nagging nagging feeling… he feeling… he was an old was an old dog and this dog and this was a new was a new trick!trick!
4/22/04 L&S Learning Support Services
Creating a Mobile Language Learning
Environment
University of Wisconsin - MadisonRead Gilgen
http://lss.wisc.edu
