Pedagogical Strategies and Technological Applications

Below I address a few of the ways I use technology in my courses.  Click on the interactive or passive categories in the table below to take you to my applications. (Others are marked as external links.)  For more specific assignments or to see finished products, go to Student Projects and Portfolios.  | Back to Barnett's Page |

 

Interactive

1. Multimedia

A. Still Images


Goals: to provoke discussion and to have students arrive at logical deductions about cultural nuances (for Spanish-American Culture)

Skills / Application: digitizing images (either by scanning or capturing),  editing images, and embedding in HTML pages; Adope Photo Shop or other editor.
 

Sample applications:

• Lesson Plan
• Visual Test
  • Visual Test Sample
  • Visual Test 1
• Compare images of urbanization (historical perspective)
• Barnett's database of Spanish-American Images--Coming soon!
• Associated Press Photo Archive (external link)
   

Goals: illustrate cultural traits, events, characteristics....

Skills / Application:  Power Point; digitizing, editing, embedding images.

 

• Power Point Lesson: "Rasgos comunes de lo precolombino"
• Other uses: Photo Gallery for Study Abroad

B. Audio and Video

Goals: listening comprehension; vocabulary acquisition; cultural insight (for La Prensa)

• SCOLA Insta-Class (external link) 
   

2. Multi-directional discussion

 
A. Forums  (*note* use the following for userid and password: guest395 and then 395)

Goals: (1) to increase the quality of discussion; (2) increase the quantity of discussion; and (3) refocus the direction of discussion.

Skills / Application: Web Course in a Box or other Forum builder

• Horizontal Communication for Discussion
• Linear Communication as a Review Tool
• Prolongs Previous Discussion
• Anticipates Next Discussion
• Interactive Potential
• Archive of Discussion

For more complete pedagogical conclusions on my use of forums, see "New Conversations: Web-based Forums in 'Spanish Civilization and Culture'"

 

B. Mailto:

Goal: to share information and discussion efficiently among the class, especially when a "threaded" discussion isn't necessary.
 

• Example:  Go to La Prensa and then click on "Students"

3.  Uni-directional information

A. Automated Exercises (*note* use the following for userid and password: guest395 and then 395)

Goal: communication with instructor--automated grading and feedback

Skills / Application: Exercise builder in WCB
 

• Exercises with sound (use above password)
• Exercises with multimedia images (ex., maps (use above password)
• Exercises with multiple choice (use above password)

B. Forms

Goals: communication with instructor--students generate and send information efficiently

Skills / Application: Adobe Page Mill.
 

• Example:  Go to La Prensa and then click on "Research Exercises"

C. Email

Goals: communication with instructor--students send brief responses

Skills / Application: "mailto" command

• Example: Go to Visual Test 1 and then click on "Compose your answer here"

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4. External Resources -- Selected Examples

Goal: Provides resources by embedding external links into course pages

Sample external links:

• Verb Conjugator in Span 164: Advanced Intermediate
• On-line Spanish-English Dictionaries
• On-line Grammar Tutorial (Beginning Spanish) in Span 164: Advanced Intermediate
• TECLA (Intermediate Spanish readings) in Span 164: Advanced Intermediate
• Encyclopedia Britannica (on-campus use only) in Span 396: Seminar
• Spanish and Spanish American Newspapers in Span 295: La Prensa

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Passive

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1. Syllabus Building
 

• Syllabus viewed by topic, calendar, or index in Span 212: Spanish-American Culture
  
  
  

2. Archived readings
 

• My own texts for Spanish American civilization (choose the essay from the Index)
• My own maps and demographic charts for Spanish Civilization
• Primary readings in Spanish-American culture

3. Archived Material (exercises, handouts)
 

• Sample grammar handout indexed
• Sample grammar exercise linked from syllabus
   

4. Archive holdings (points to non-Web resources available)
 

• Save spread sheet as HTML to identify holdings in library or sort by categories, such as Latin American Novel (sorted by date) or Hispanic Cinema (sorted by director)
   

5. “Compose and share” (student work)
 

• Student Projects and Portafolios serve as source of sharing collaborative work
• Sample Instructions on how to submit work on L:drive

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