What is visual literacy? "The ability to interpret, use, appreciate and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in that’s that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.” Dual coding Cognitive flexibility: the more information you get in various forms the more likely you are to be able to use that information. example: http://www.chris-jones.org.uk/index.html Need to be aware of… Continue

CALL Learner Training in a Listening Course Ken Romeo - Stanford University Phil Hubbard - Stanford University Rationale Asking students to do things that are actually pretty hard. Asking to use technology is a bit hard. More options, and they don’t intuitively know what to do with them in a learning environment. Learner training (LT) - how do we do it? LT Principles (Hubbard 2002; 2004) Experience CALL for yourself Give learners teacher training - more indiv… Continue

Evaluating Teaching CALL in Teacher Training Trip Kirkpatrick - Yale University Mark Knowles - Yale University Lockstep Curriculum 1923 curriculum was told teachers where they should stand and the angle of their body. People today still teach in proscribed curricula. Not a complete clone, coordinators would like it to be as such. BAK Networks BAK- Beliefs, Assumptions and Knowledge - this filters the curriculum. Builds on Agar’s 1982 ‘schema’ Teachers… Continue

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual university. There is an immersion program in French for Anglophones. The Level One course is to facilitate students' reading and listening comprehension of the subject matter material. The language teacher must adapt to needs of learners and the requirements of the immersion course. Why the History of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century course web page? This is a first-year course of 13 weeks for 120 students, 10 of whom are taking the adjunct French… Continue

Is Technology Driving our Curriculum? Claire Bartlett, Rice University (bartlett@rice.edu) Textbook choices and online resources Online video Assessment tools wiki blogs and skype and how they Rice U No language requirement Online Textbooks and activities.... Vistas Interaction etc Activities listening comprehension grammar no saved recordings Student responses to what the program - not good, but not bad - only average. online fill-in-the blank does not substitute for t… Continue