¡Gracias! Obrigada! Merci beau coup!

Thank you all for a great semester for the FLTP! We are working on next semester's offerings and will inform you all about them once they are finalized.

Here are the attendance statistics for this fall's workshops:

Please contact me with questions: Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu

Technology Sampler, November 27th and 28th 2012

November 27th and 28th, the Tuesday and Wednesday after Thanksgiving break, is the last workshop of the fall semester for ALTEC's Foreign Language Technology Program. The workshop is our Technology Sampler in which we will explore 8 free, easy-to-use, web-based programs to improve how you teach, create, embellish, streamline, and capture online.

Technologies to be discussed include: Screenr, Online Image Editor, TinyUrl, TubeChop, KeepVid, Doodle.ly, Vocaroo, and Quizlet. 

Workshop Information: 
Hellems 145
Tuesday, November 27th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, November 28th 10am-12pm

To sign up for this workshop: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml

The presentation can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/technologysampler

Online Speech Tools, November 13th and 14th 2012

November 13th and 14th is the next workshop for ALTEC's Foreign Language Technology Program. This is a new workshop and I am very excited about this offering!

In this workshop, we will explore a variety of free and easy-to-use online tools for speech recording for you and your language students. We will assess the pros and cons of each of the recording tools and then brainstorm unique projects for each tool based on its features.

Workshop information:
Hellems 145
Tuesday, November 13th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, November 14th 10am-12pm

To sign up for this workshop: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml 

Email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu with any questions or problems!

Workshop Handouts and Links:
Online Speech Tools Handout
Online Speech Tools Comparison Chart

Example:
Here is an example of one of the flashier tools... Voki

VoiceThread, October 30th and 31st 2012

October 30th and the 31st is the VoiceThread workshop for ALTEC's Foreign Language Technology Program.

VoiceThread is an online interactive program that allows you to easily create a digital slide show using photos, video, or documents. The VoiceThread creator can then add comments (audio, text or video) and doodles to that slide show and share it with others who can comment as well. Last year, CU purchased a site license for VoiceThread which has done much to facilitate the use of this program in your class. An example VoiceThread from my Spanish 2110.300 course can be viewed here:

   

Workshop Information: 
Hellems 145
Tuesday, October 30th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, October 31th 10am-12pm
To sign up for this workshop: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml
Email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu with any questions or problems!

Workshop Handouts:
VoiceThread Workshop Handout
Student VoiceThread Handout

Instructions for Installing and Setting Up the VoiceThread App:
http://tinyurl.com/voicethreadapp

Media in Desire2Learn, October 16th and 17th 2012

Are you using Desire2Learn for your language course but want to customize your page to fit your unique purposes?
Do you want to stream film or YouTube videos through your D2L page, but are unsure of how to best display this media for your students?

Next week is the fourth FLTP workshop for the fall semester at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, "Media in Desire2Learn":
Viktoriya Oliynyk and Brad Grabham from OIT will lead us through this workshop to customize our D2L pages and to explore the media capabilities of D2L. Come learn how to: "Insert Stuff" such as YouTube videos and film via Kaltura, customize your course homepage, create "New Widgets", embed GoogleDocs and VoiceThreads, edit your course's navigation bar, and add external links to your course.

Workshop Logistics:
Hellems 145
Tuesday, October 16th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, October 17th 10am-12pm

To sign up for this workshop: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml 

* For this workshop, you must have a Desire2Learn page. It can be a page that you are using/would like to use for a specific course or a Sandbox (a test page). If you are unsure if you have a D2L Course, try logging in at https://learn.colorado.edu with your CU log-in information. If you are unable to log-in, then you need to request a course or a Sandbox from https://mycuinfo.colorado.edu/

Guest Speaker: Christopher M. Jones, October 9th 2012

We are excited to announce the FLTP's guest speaker presentation for this fall. Christopher M. Jones from Carnegie Mellon University will be presenting on "Open Educational Resources and Language Instruction", Tuesday October 9th from 12-1pm in Hellems 145.


Presenter: Christopher M. Jones PhD, Carnegie Mellon University 

• Professor of French and Computer-Assisted Language Learning 
• Director, Modern Language Resource Center 
• Director, Masters in Applied Second Language Acquisition 

Presentation: "Open Educational Resources and Language Instruction" 

• The history of the sharing of instructional resources and OER 
• A demonstration of the French Online course through the Open Learning Initiative 
• A discussion of possible future directions in OER 
• What could OER mean for the individual teacher 

Those of you who are working on the FLTP will receive a full credit for attending this presentation, as in any other workshop.

To sign-up for this talk: https://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml

Email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu with any questions!

OER Workshop, September 18th and 19th 2012

OERs: Don't Reinvent the Wheel!
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are instructional materials that have been created by other teachers and educational institutions with the intention of sharing and public use.

Come learn how to harness these resources for your own classroom use! The workshop will provide an overview of OER repositories, then we will brainstorm how to effectively use these resources in our classes. We will also discuss other important issues relevant to Open Education such as the responsible sharing of materials and teacher identity in this evolving landscape.

Workshop Information:
Hellems 145
Tuesday, September 18th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, September 19th 10am-12pm

To sign up for this workshop: http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml

This workshop will be a great introduction for the FLTP's fall 2012 guest speaker, Christopher M. Jones who will be presenting on his work with Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative on October 9th (12-1pm) in Hellems 145.

Email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu with any questions or problems!

"7 Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources" by Educause

*** Link to OER Presentation

Introduction to the FLTP, September 4th and 5th 2012

This week marks the beginning of the FLTP workshops for the Fall 2012 semester. As always, we will start the year with one of the two required FLTP workshops, "Introduction to the Foreign Language Technology Program". Come to learn more about the FLTP and the world of foreign language technologies.

To enroll, please visit http://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml and email Courtney.Fell [@] colorado.edu with questions or problems!

Here is the Prezi for this workshop:

On break

Edwige and Courtney will be out of the office for July. 

We are excited to get the FLTP and the K-12 FLTP up and running again for the fall of 2012.  Please stay tuned to your email come mid-August for the FLTP fall scheduling preferences email and then later the FLTP fall calendar. 

FLTP Portfolio Intensive, April 21st and April 28th

There is a small change in the dates for the portfolio intensive sessions this spring.

The dates have been moved from April 28th and May 5th to April 21st and April 28th.

For information about the portfolio requirements, please visit the FLTP website here.

Tentative schedule:
Hellems 145

Saturday, April 21st
Notes from Saturday April 21st (including portfolio comments and Anne Becher's workshop)
8:30 to 9:00am: Breakfast and introductions
9:00am to 10:00am: Introduction to Portfolio Design (we'll look at examples, discuss content & purpose)
10:00am to 10:30am: Paper prototype (you will outline the structure of your portfolio structure on paper and receive feedback on the organizing scheme)
10:30 to noon: WordPress workshop (you will create your blog site, the menu, the pages and subpages)
Lunch break (30 min)
12:30pm to 2:00pm: Participants continue building their portfolio
          Photo shoot (optional/if the weather allows it). Those who need it will be offered the opportunity to have their picture taken (to include in your portfolio)
2pm to 3:30pm: Teaching philosophy workshop with Anne Becher (Spanish department)

Saturday, April 28th
Notes from Saturday April 28th (including notes from Annie Piatt's Resume Workshop
8:30am to 10:30am: Resume workshop with Annie Piatt from Career Services
10:30am to 11:30am: Presenting content (how to present a lesson plan or an activity in your portfolio using video and annotated screenshots)
Lunch break (30 min)
Noon to 2:30pm:  Participants continue building their portfolio
          Photoshoot (optional/if the weather allows it). Those who need it will be offered the opportunity to have their picture taken (to include in your portfolio)
2:30pm to 3:30pm: Participants will exchange constructive criticism of each other's portfolio

To Bring
- Your personal computer that has all of your class material on it (lessons etc)
- A CV or Resume (this does not need to be updated)
- A teacher's statement/philosophy (if you have one)

FLTP Credits:
Workshop participants will earn one FLTP credit for each day of the portfolio intensive. Please keep in mind that we are expecting participants to attend the full day. Please contact Edwige or Courtney if this is not the case.

SOCALLT, April 13th and 14th

ALTEC will be hosting this year's SOCALLT conference. The conference will be held Friday, April 13th and Saturday, April 14th here at CU Boulder.

There will be two keynote speakers:
     - Friday, April 13th: Kathy Mills of Queensland University of Technology. Multimodality, Media, & Access to Multiliteracies
     - Saturday, April 14th: Steve Thorne of Portland State University & the University of Groningen. Education in Late Modernity 

A number of language faculty, instructors and TAs from CU will be presenting. A list of confirmed sessions can be found here and the official schedule will be released soon.

YouTube Annotations Workshop:

Edwige and Courtney will be leading will be leading a workshop on YouTube Annotations Saturday, April 14th from 11:30-12:30 in Hellems 145.  Here is a link to the handout.

Registration:
The registration information can be found on the SOCALLT 2012 website.

FLTP Certification:
For those of you who are working towards your FLTP certificate, you can receive workshop credit for SOCALLT. You can earn a maximum of three FLTP workshop credits for SOCALLT; the credits can be accumulated in the following manner:
          - 1 FLTP credit for attending 4 sessions (presenters will need to sign your program)
          - 1 FLTP credit for attending each keynote address (sign a sign-in sheet)
          - 1 FLTP credit for presenting at SOCALLT

Quizzes and Tests through D2L, March 21st and 22rd

This next week, the FLTP workshop will explore the Quiz and Test features available through CU's new course management system, D2L. Come practice using D2L and create a quiz for your students.

The workshop will be held in Hellems 145 
Pick one session to attend:

     Wednesday, March 21 10-12

     Thursday, March 22 2-4

To sign up for the workshop: 

     https://altec.colorado.edu/fltp/index.shtml

To be prepared for the workshop:

- If you have a D2L course, great! We'll make a quiz in it and you can choose to share it with your students or not
- If you don’t know if you have a D2L course, try logging in at https://learn.colorado.edu/ with your CU log-in information. If you are unable to log-in, then follow the next instructions

- If you do not have a D2L course and want to practice making quizzes in D2L, email Courtney.Fell@colorado.edu by Friday at 5pm. We will get you set up with a practice course for the workshop. Include the following information in the email: 

       - Your CU email address 
       - Your identikey (your CU log-in name)


To bring to the workshop:
       - Your personal computer if you would like
       - Your language textbook (for reference)
       - A quiz


Useful D2L links:
       - Link to D2L
       - OIT D2L Information
       - OIT D2L Quiz online tutorials
       - Link to Request D2L course
       - FLTP workshop presentation

Yabla, March 7th and 8th

Our next FLTP workshop (March 7th and 8th) will present the ins and outs of Yabla as well as best practices for using Yabla in your classroom.

About Yabla: Yabla is an online collection of short videos that are scaffolded to maximize student learning and is currently available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The video categories include commercials, documentaries, drama, interviews, music videos, travel and more. Each video has user-controlled subtitling options, a transcript, playback options, listening comprehension exercises and an integrated dictionary. Visit http://www.yabla.com/ to view demos in the various languages.

The workshop presentation will be as follows:

­Part One: Digital video in the classroom

1.     Why use digital video to teach language?

2.     General considerations when using digital video in the classroom

Part Two: The basics of Yabla

1.     What Yabla has to offer

2.     Your Yabla account

3.     Exploring Yabla

4.     Creating assignments

Part Three: Integrating Yabla into your lesson plan

1.     Recommendations to capitalize on Yabla’s features

2.     Performing more creative searches for Yabla videos

3.     Contextualizing Yabla videos

4.     Alternate activities to supplement Yabla videos

ALTEC has purchased Yabla licenses for Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish teachers and students at CU.  *** If you teach ESL or a language in which Yabla is not currently offered and you would like to explore English Yabla in the workshop, email me at Courtney.Fell@colorado.edu and we can activate a temporary account for you!

Workshop Handouts:
     - Workshop Handout
     - Student Yabla Instructions
     - Instructor Yabla Instructions

Clouds, February 22nd and 23rd

As I was surfing around today, I stumbled across a GoogleBook describing a great number of "frequently asked web questions". Here is a screenshot from p. 7 on Cloud Computing, the topic of the upcoming FLTP workshop. The e-book is available here.

The Google Docs & Cloud Computing workshop February 22 and 23rd will cover the following:
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Using GoogleDocs for documents, presentations, and forms
- Other Dynamic Cloud Programs such as Quizlet, Prezi, and YouTube

The workshop handout is available here.