Enhancing French Learning through Interactive Multimedia

1. ACTFL 2007 Toward an Interactive Syllabus; Engaging Students of French Nathan L. Love Western Kentucky University www.wku.edu/~nathan.love (17-November-2007)

2. PowerPoint Table of Contents • I. Advantages of Online Syllabus • II. A Quick Look: Three Interactive Syllabi • III. Engaging Students of French • IV. Engaging with Interactivity & Multimedia • V. Engaging with Art & Multimedia • VI. Proficiencies / Competencies in View • VII. Engaging with Interactivity > PowerPoint • VIII. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • IX. Engaging with Interactivity > Others • X. Engaging with WebQuesting / Web Authoring • XI. Brainstorming with You & Looking Ahead

3. Advantages of Syllabus Online • Centrality of the online syllabus • Convergence of presentation, practice, assignments, assessments • Convergence of French texts, sound, visual elements of culture • Online syllabus as dynamic (It changes!) • Online syllabus engaging through interactivity • Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening outward

4. A Quick Look: Three Interactive Syllabi • Elementary French II (F102) • toolbar (& interactivités) • course description / policies (statement on teaching) • Business French (F331) • toolbar (& worksheets) • assignment links (sept. 3) • elements within time table (agenda, “le téléphone”) • Survey French Literature I (F325) • week 1: terminologie, esquisse, versification

5. Engaging Students of French • Before class (assignments) • After class (assignments) • During class, too? (why not?) • With multimedia & mediated authenticity!

6. Engaging with Interactivity & Multimedia • with voice (examples later) • with music • F102 Elem. French II Madame la Marquise • with video • F426 20th-cent. French Lit. (Sartre’s Huis Clos) • F102 Motifs Unité 7 (Publisher’s video with interactive questions) • BBC F102 (Nov. 8) • TV5

7. Engaging with Art & Multimedia • Survey French Literature I(F325) • la commedia dell’arte • audition de quelques poèmes de Ronsard > Vive Voix Wheaton College • château de Montaigne • la chanson de Roland ; Digby 23 ms • Les Regrets de la belle Heaulmiere François Villon • La ballade des dames du temps jadisFrançois Villon et chanté par Georges Brassens

8. Engaging Students of French with Interactivity • How do you know “interactivities” are engaging? • (Answer: When your native French colleagues review them too thoroughly or passionately.) • So what? What about proficiencies / competencies?

9. Proficiencies / Competencies in View • listening (& vocabulary) • cuisine sénégalise • listening & viewing • reading (& vocaulary) • Quiche Lorraine (Jumbled) • Quand? (Cloze / fill in) • writing (?) (& grammar / structure) • speaking (& pronunciation) * listening & reading (une recette)

10. Engaging with Interactivity > PowerPoint • Vêtements (vocabulaire) • donner – present (listening) • World Cup 2006 (team ID) • PowerPoint Journal (MLNG 420)

11. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching Hot Potatoes home page URL: http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot_website.php Hot Potatoes download URL: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads

12. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching

13. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • text (parties du corps) • image (Quiche Lorraine)

14. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching

15. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Jumbled • sentence • numbers

16. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching

17. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Cloze / Fill in • listening (courses à faire)

18. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching

19. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Camus La peste • grammar: pronouns w/ chart • odd man old (foods)

20. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Crossword • Jumbled • Cloze / Fill in • Multiple Choice (& odd man out) • Matching

21. Engaging with Interactivity > Hot Potatoes • Matching • text to text (activities to places) • text to image (couleurs) • text to sound (accents)

22. Engaging with Interactivity > Others • F102: syllabus linked to Thierry Perrot , for example • parties du corps • vêtements • CLEAR (Michigan State University): • SMILE & suite of Web-based products

23. Engaging with WebQuesting / Web Authoring • Projects (an example 5 films) • Blackboard’s role • project: Pages Web pour Touristes – Régions de France (F323 French civilization & culture) • project: Teacher’s Home Page (MNLG 420 20/G Multimedia Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages)

24. Brainstorming with You & Looking Ahead • iPod & “Podtexts” • Satoru Shinagawa here at ACTFL • WIKIS • Cindy Kendall & Cherice Montgomery here at ACTFL • Other ideas ? ipod nano 3rd generation San Anonio photos