ACFTL 2007

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. 7)• 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)• Ronsard > Archivox• la commedia dell’arte• audition de quelques poèmes de Ronsard

> Wheaton College• château de Montaigne• la chanson de Roland Digby 23 ms• chanson de Roland et Chartres• 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.htm#downloads

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• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in


• Matching

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


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• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in


• Matching

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• Jumbled• sentence• numbers


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• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in


• Matching

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


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• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in


• Matching

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

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• Crossword

• Jumbled

• Cloze / Fill in


• Matching

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• 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

• Assignment (F102)

• 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