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!