Interactive Reading with Perusall: Engaging Students Through Social Annotation
Presenters: Dr. Mee-Jeong Park, Associate Professor & Dept Chair, UHM Korean
Mr. Alexander Tang, CLT Graduate Assistant, UHM EALL PhD Student
Students often neglect to complete assigned readings before class and instructors are left frustrated. There can be various factors that contribute to this issue. So, what’s the solution? Make assigned readings interactive with Perusall! In this session, Dr. Mee-Jeong Park will share her experience using Perusall in the courses she teaches at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, East Asian Languages & Literatures.
Telecollaboration Environments: Task motivation and engagement
Presenter: Dr. Alberto Andujar
Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Almeria (Spain)
Visiting Colleague, UH Mānoa, Center for Language & Technology
This session will focus on an upcoming Spanish-American telecollaboration project which will take place at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The construct of engagement and motivation will be explored in relation with task design in telecollaboration environments. Particularly, elements such as task motivation and engagement are of interest for those teachers and practitioners willing to carry out successful intercultural telecollaboration projects. From the research perspective, the upcoming investigation attempts to shed light on how these constructs may affect task design as well as the monitoring of telecollaboration projects. Different types of tasks will also be discussed.
Python Level 1: Fundamentals of Computer Programming for Language Data Processing
Presenter: Dr. Richard Medina, CLT, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
This workshop introduces fundamental concepts of computer programming to a non-technical audience. It is intended to assist faculty and students in establishing a sound understanding of programming constructs that are useful for working with more advanced tasks, for example, in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, and other language data processing tasks. Concepts such as the use of variables, functions, loops, basic input and output will be addressed. Additionally, recommended best practices for working with Python script files and tools will be demonstrated. Participation does not require prior experience or exposure to computer programming.
Designing Engaging Instructional Materials: Hands-on workshop on creating learning activities with rich interactions
Presenter: Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, CLT, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design
- a) trying out a variety of interactions that can be embedded in multimodal instructional materials, and
- b) designing and creating their own interactive videos and interactive course presentations.
This workshop welcomes participants who teach courses delivered by CLT’s Moodle course system, as well as those who use the Laulima course system, but would like to explore the potential of using H5P in Laulima in the future. No prior experience with H5P is required.
Getting Started with Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)
Presenter: Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, UHM LLEA, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Portuguese
Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized experiences that create opportunities for learners to use their language to address real world needs that are personally meaningful to them. It engages learners in investigating, over an extended time, a complex real-world issue to benefit an authentic audience. This presentation will go through the basics of getting started with Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL).
Play My Game: Tools for Scenario-Based Language Learning and Interactive Fiction
Presenter: Dr. Richard Medina, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
In this workshop, Dr. Richard Medina will demonstrate two kinds of language interaction activities structured around scenario-based learning and digital storytelling. In the first part of the workshop, participants will be introduced to H5P as a tool for constructing student-ready branching scenarios. In the second part, Richard will demonstrate an activity that uses Twine to support learners in constructing their own branching scenarios in the form of interactive fiction. Participants will have the opportunity for hands-on exploration of both tools.
Prior experience with H5P and Twine is not necessary.
Open Professional Learning Resources for Language Educators
Presenters:
Dr. Suzanne Freynik, Tech Center, Learning Design Specialist
Ms. Molly Godwin-Jones, Tech Center, Learning Design Specialist
In this session, Dr. Suzanne Freynik and Ms. Molly Godwin-Jones present a collection of open professional learning resources for world language educators, authored collaboratively by a working group of language tutors and individuals who train them in Language Flagship programs across the US. These self-paced modules were created using H5P interactive books to provide an overview of language pedagogy fundamentals, such as adapting authentic materials, providing corrective feedback, and understanding proficiency measures.
The demonstration will be of interest to language educators looking for a convenient way to brush up on the basics, including graduate teaching assistants and tutors.
The Green Ideas Project: Developing Intercultural Competence & Professional Language Skills in Korean through Simulations
Presenter: Naiyi Xie Fincham, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design (CLT)
Co-Presenters: Sang Yee Cheon, Lydia Chung & Dianne Juhn (Korean Language Flagship Center, UH Mānoa)
In the 21st-century landscape of multinational corporations and a multicultural workforce, intercultural competence with proficiency in world languages is vital for successful communication in various professional and social settings. Simulations are one form of experiential learning that is believed to hold strong potential for helping language learners develop their intercultural competence.
This session will demonstrate how a simulation-based blended learning course was created for Korean Flagship students to develop sophisticated professional language skills and a deep understanding of Korean workplace culture, essential for their capstone year in Korea. Illustrating the design and implementation process, the presenters will discuss considerations that went into creating two interactive learning modules (Korean workplace culture and public speaking skills), facilitating the learning experience, and providing support for the learners and instructors. Attendees are also invited to join the discussion and explore the possibilities of adapting this model project for other target language contexts.
Working with Language in the Cloud & On the Ground
Presenter: Richard Medina, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
In this session, Dr. Richard Medina will demonstrate a language technology use case that collects and processes spoken audio for a language analysis task. The use case incorporates Google Cloud services and the Python-based Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to perform a basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) analysis.
The demonstration should be of interest to those who might be curious about different ways to source language data for purposes of analysis and/or language learning activity. This D&D is also part of the Programming Essentials for Studies in Human Language & Technology series.
Designing Engaging Instructional Materials: Using 360° Images/Videos and Other Video Editing Basics
Presenter: Naiyi Xie Fincham, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design
Co-Presenters: Young Chun & James Finamore, Tech Center Graduate Assistant – Learning Design
As technologies and platforms to create and edit 360° images and videos are becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, educators now have the opportunity to provide students with immersive learning experiences with their own 360° materials. This session introduces tools for shooting, editing, and discovering 360° images and videos, and demonstrates the use of 360° footage to create virtual tours. A selection of tools, platforms, and resources for video editing in general will also be shared.
Designing Engaging Instructional Materials:
Creating Interactive Videos and Course Presentations Using H5P
Presenter: Naiyi Xie Fincham, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design
H5P is a free platform that empowers instructors to create, share and reuse a variety of rich interactive content and experiences for online and hybrid courses. This session focuses on two H5P Interactive types: interactive video and interactive course presentation. Naiyi will demonstrate how they can be used to scaffold students’ interaction with video materials and course content with embedded activities for comprehension checks, different forms of assessments, and awareness-raising commentaries. She will also discuss specific features and settings offered by H5P that allow instructors to regulate and monitor students’ learning process in different ways.
Tips & Tricks with LaTex & Overleaf
Presenter: Richard Medina, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
LaTeX is a typesetting system that is used to produce beautifully formatted documents. It is a common format required by many publishers, academic journals and conferences, grant funders, and in academic settings. It takes care of the formatting and lets the writer focus on content. In this demonstration, Richard provides a brief background on LaTex and Overleaf (an application designed to make LaTeX authoring more intuitive). He shares tips on document formatting (margins, line spacing, typesetting), document layouts, and citation and bibliographic tools.
