Past Project Descriptions
Languages Other Than English
Acentuacion
Faculty Member: George Blanco
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Student Technologist: Anuj Nanavati
Project Description: Acentuacion is a self-paced and self-correcting tutorial on the written accent in Spanish. This Vision Award project was designed to enhance the current version of the tutorial program by adding an assessment component and score reporting capabilities. These features allow instructors to gain a better sense of each student's progress and thereby provide more immediate feedback.
Spanish Language Translation of Math and Science Educational Video
Faculty Members: Diane Bryant, Haydee Rodriguez, and Melisssa Tothero with Arturo Guajardo, Jeff Meyer, and Susan Monahan of AISD
Department: Special Education/Curriculum and Instruction
Project Description:The College has been aware for some time of a dearth of Spanish language instructional video in math and science, especially for the lower grade levels. The proposers of this project have worked with United Streaming, a major distributor of educational video content, to secure permission to overdub selected titles from their catalog into Spanish. The goal of the project will be to overdub these titles and create a web-based interface through which the resulting products will be made available.
Website to Support the Use of iSight Cameras in Foreign ans Second Language Tutorials
Faculty Members: David Schwarzer
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Project Description: Development of a web-based training resource to assist students with the methodological and technical aspects of designing tutorial sessions that utilize desktop video conferencing. By using the iSight cameras or any other camera available with their supportive software, we'll be able to pair students with second and foreign language educators and their students from around the country or around the world.
iSight Cameras in Foreign and Second Language Tutorials
Faculty Member: David Schwarzer
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Student Technologist: Tan-wen Hou
Project Description: This project was created for use by students in foreign and second language teaching methods courses. Using the iSight cameras and iChat AV, the graduate students in the courses develop and conduct tutorial sessions with a student or group of students in ESL or FLE. Using the cameras and software allows them to teach at a distance and work with learners from around the world. Tutorials are recorded for later use by students for reflection and professional development.