JALT-CALL 2010, Kyoto
Pre-conference workshop, Friday, May 28th
As a teacher, I take student feedback very seriously, but it has always been difficult to compile student comments from the old-school handouts which seem to be the standard. Â This year I decided to do something a little different, so I set up a Google Form and asked the students to complete it online. Â This was not too much of a problem logistically, as many of my classes are taught in the computer/language lab anyway. Â I simply embedded the Google Form in the university e-learning course for each class and pointed them at it. Â The results were near instantaneous, and Google did a rather nice job of compiling the data in visual form for me. (bottom left)
Whereas the visualization of the multiple-choice questions is done quite well in the Google Form summary page, I found the display of the data from the open-ended questions to be far less satisfactory. Â Certainly, I could go directly into the spreadsheet to view the data, but I wanted a better way to visualize it, so that I could post it somewhere in my office as a constant reminder. Â It was this desire that reminded me of Wordle.net, which is a great resource for visualization of textual data. Â I have used this before for visual representations of articles I have written, and as slides introducing presentations, and I have found the results quite pleasing. Â So, here is a Wordle map (below right) of the most common words used by my students in response to the following question:Â “What did you like about this class?”
- Student Feedback: Spring 2009
- Google Form Feedback
Wouldn’t it be nice if Google added this format automagically?
Friday, September 18, 2009
University of Shimane Good Practice Forum: Collaborative Teaching Across Disciplines & Countries Using ICT
September 18th, 15:00
Presentation summary:
This short presentation will describe the framework and implementation of a cross-cultural blog exchange between language students at the University of Yamanashi and the University of New Hampshire. This project takes the idea of online “key pals” to a new level by creating a strong purpose activity while providing students with access to a broader audience of native speaker peers in the target language.
Friday, September 18, 2009
University of Shimane Good Practice Forum: Collaborative Teaching Across Disciplines & Countries Using ICT
September 18th, 13:00
Presentation summary:
This presentation will demonstrate how to both support and extend a classroom textbook using Moodle. The presentation will include a demonstration of how to use Quizzes, Assignments, Forums and Glossaries to augment the textbook and simplify the teacher workload. The presentation will end with a hands-on look at the use of Glossaries to simplify the grading process for online assignments.
Abstract
In recent years Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has gained wide usage worldwide, but still faces cultural barriers in some contexts. This presentation reports on a project involving the use of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) in a support role for CLT in face-to-face classrooms in a Japanese university. The project sought to (Continued)
Abstract:
Foreign language teachers in Japanese universities often face great difficulty in breaking through the social barriers inherent in the traditional Japanese classroom. In a culture where a student’s “standing out” can be interpreted as “showing off”, and mistakes more often seen as social failures than learning opportunities, students are naturally cautious about using a foreign language in front of their peers.
This paper looks at using Moodle, an open source Course Management System, to foster the growth of communities (Continued)
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