ACTFL 2007Toward an Interactive Syllabus;

Engaging Students of FrenchNathan L. Love

Western Kentucky Universitywww.wku.edu/~nathan.love

(17-November-2007)

Contents

PowerPoint Table of Contents• I. Advantages of Online Syllabus

• II. A Quick Look: Three Interactive Syllabi

• III. Engaging Students of French

• IV. Engaging with Interactivity & Multimedia

• V. Engaging with Art & Multimedia

• VI. Proficiencies / Competencies in View

• VII. Engaging with Interactivity > PowerPoint

• VIII. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• IX. Engaging with Interactivity > Others

• X. Engaging with WebQuesting / Web Authoring

• XI. Brainstorming with You & Looking Ahead

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Advantages of Syllabus Online

• Centrality of the online syllabus

• Convergence of presentation, practice, assignments, assessments

• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual elements of culture

• Online syllabus as dynamic (It changes!)

• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity

• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening outward

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A Quick Look: Three Interactive Syllabi

• Elementary French II (F102)• toolbar (& interactivités)• course description / policies (statement on teaching)

• Business French (F331)• toolbar (& worksheets)• assignment links (sept. 3)• elements within time table (agenda, “le téléphone”)

• Survey French Literature I (F325)• week 1: terminologie, esquisse, versification

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Engaging Students of French

• Before class (assignments)

• After class (assignments)

• During class, too? (why not?)

• With multimedia & mediated authenticity!

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• with voice (examples later)

• with music• F102 Elem. French II Madame la Marquise

• with video • F426 20th-cent. French Lit. (Sartre’s Huis Clos)• F102 Motifs Unité 7 (Publisher’s video with interactive questions)• BBC F102 (Nov. 8)• TV5

Engaging with Interactivity & Multimedia

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• Survey French Literature I (F325)• la com m edia dell’arte• audition de quelques poèmes de Ronsard

> Vive Voix Wheaton College• château de Montaigne• la chanson de Roland ; Digby 23 ms• Les Regrets de la belle Heaulmiere

François Villon• La ballade des dames du temps jadis

François Villon et chanté par Georges Brassens

Engaging with Art & Multimedia

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Engaging Students of French with Interactivity

• How do you know “interactivities” are engaging?

• (Answer: When your native French colleagues review them too thoroughly or passionately.)

• So what? What about proficiencies / competencies?

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Proficiencies / Competencies in View

• listening (& vocabulary)• cuisine sénégalise

• listening & viewing

• reading (& vocaulary)• Quiche Lorraine (Jumbled)• Quand? (Cloze / fill in)

• writing (?) (& grammar / structure)

• speaking (& pronunciation)

* listening & reading (une recette)

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Engaging with Interactivity > PowerPoint

• Vêtements (vocabulaire)

• donner – present (listening)

• World Cup 2006 (team ID)

• PowerPoint Journal (MLNG 420)

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

Hot Potatoes home page URL:

http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot_website.php

Hot Potatoes download URL:

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

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• Crossword • text (parties du corps)• image (Quiche Lorraine)

Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

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• Jumbled• sentence• numbers

Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

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• Cloze / Fill in• listening (courses à faire)

Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)• Camus La peste• grammar: pronouns w/ chart• odd man old (foods)

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in

• Multiple Choice (& odd man out)

• Matching

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Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes

• Matching• text to text (activities to places)• text to image (couleurs)• text to sound (accents)

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• F102: syllabus linked to Thierry Perrot , for example

• parties du corps• vêtements

• CLEAR (Michigan State University):• SMILE & suite of Web-based products

Engaging with Interactivity > Others

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Engaging with WebQuesting / Web Authoring

• Projects (an example 5 films)

• Blackboard ’s role

• project: Pages Web pour Touristes – Régions de France (F323 French civilization & culture)

• project: Teacher’s Home Page (MNLG 420 20/G Multimedia Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages)

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Brainstorming with You & Looking Ahead

• iPod & “Podtexts”• Satoru Shinagawa here at ACTFL

• WIKIS• Cindy Kendall & Cherice Montgomery here at ACTFL

• Other ideas ?

ipod nano 3rd generation

San Anonio photos