MAKING
THE MOST OF TECHNOLOGY
IN THE CLASSROOM
A demonstration of Web tools for beginning, intermediate,
and advanced levels of college Spanish and a discussion of the successes
and failures of such tools.
(Ellen
Mayock, Washington and Lee University)
(Tucker Multimedia Center,
Director Dick Kuettner, Washington and Lee University)
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Pedagogical Principles: why
use the web?
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Ease, flexibility, variety
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A way to pull together multiple resources in an organized
and clear fashion
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Allows course information to be constantly up to date
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Just one course webpage gets the students onto the Information
Superhighway
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Creativity
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Multimedia possibilities
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Work done outside of class on the web increases amount of
face-to-face interaction in class
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New way to look at old concepts
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Importance of helping students familiarize themselves with
and become active users of current technology
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It's cool
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Authoring materials for the
web
Interactive Materials
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NLightN - a
grammar exercise and quiz program designed at Washington and Lee:
Spanish 111 and 112 (beginning Spanish)
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Fora: WCB format- Spanish
295 (Advanced Conversation) and W&L format - Spanish
314 (Spanish Prose, 1897-1994)
Teacher-Authored Materials
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Textual analysis (experiment): Spanish 215 (Intro.
to Literary Analysis) - professor
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Online course notes: Spanish
211 (Spanish Culture and Civ.) and Spanish
395 (Seminar)
Student-Authored Materials
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Building a webpage together: Spanish 295 Directors
page
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Textual analysis (experiment): Spanish 215 (Intro.
to Literary Analysis) -- student
(new to Netscape)
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Final project for a seminar course (Spanish 395): Integrating
culture and civilization into the discussion of literature: "España
por ojos exiliados" by Sallie Ball and Keenan Weston
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Incorporating supplemental
web materials into course pages
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Incentives to get students
using the web
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partial or no syllabus
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grammar enticements
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online notes
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online testing
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webpage design as part of the course OR
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extra credit for attempts at web design
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Using the web as the cornerstone
of a course
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Spanish 161,
162:
basic syllabus, grammar aids, test formats, composition descriptions, cultural
links for class presentations
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Spanish 211:
links, forum, online notes, testing
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Spanish 295:
links, forum
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Spanish 395,
1998: **syllabus, links, dictionaries, forum, online notes (some
not covered in class but treated on exams)
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Spanish 395,
2001: syllabus, links, online notes, student projects, etc.
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Assessment of student web
use
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General discussion of successes
and failures of web use
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students' aptitude with web use
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student and faculty training
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careful use of incentives to get students on the web
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"overwebbing it" - when not to use the web; e.g. the forum
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courses most appropriate for full web immersion
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Useful links
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Please e-mail comments or suggestions to mayocke@wlu.edu.
Page was created on 2/14/00 and was last updated on 08/02/02.