“BEST PRACTICES”
Online, Hybrid,
and
Face to Face Courses
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CPCC 2008
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“CPCC Core Competencies”
•Communication
• Critical Thinking
•Personal Growth &
Responsibility
• Information Technology &
Quantitative Literacy
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Communication
Communication
The core competency
Communication
for our language
Communication
courses is:
Communication
Communication
Communication
Communication
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WHY?
• Students have different learning
styles.
• Use of images and sounds to engage
students, and facilitate their
experience.
• Opportunities for listening,
comprehension, and pronunciation.
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HOW?
Multimedia technologies:
Podcast, Vodcast, and
Authorpoint
eLearning Seminar, May 2007
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Tools:
Ipods, blackberries, cell
phones….
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Application 1
Spanish for Construction Class:
Welcome Message
Online Course
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Application 2
Spanish 111, 112, Spanish Club:
Podcasts
audio pieces for each vocabulary lesson
audio book
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Application 3
Spanish 112, Cultural aspect:
Vodcast
Slide show with sound
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Application 4
Spanish for Construction:
Authorpoint
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Outcomes
• Quiz grades that address listening,
comprehension and spelling.
• Dialogues and their pronunciation.
• Online classes have to submit
pronunciation exercises using
BlackBoard.
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Next
Wiston Salem, NC:
Foreign Language Association of North Carolina
FLANC
Salt Lake City, Utah:
2008 Conference on Information Technology
CIT
Thanks:
Catalina Ramirez
Teeku Patel
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