MFL 195 - Integrating Technology

into Foreign Language Education

Portfolio Assignments

June 30, 1998

  1. In Microsoft Word, write one brief paragraph about one of the e-mail activities you read about in Warschauer (Virtual Connections) last night. Which one appealed to you the most? Would you incorporate the activity into your own classes (if you could)? Why or why not? Save the file on your diskette.

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  2. In HotMail, reply to my original e-mail message to you. Attach your Word file (see #1 above) to the message. Be sure that you reply ONLY to me and not to everyone on the distribution list.

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  3. Send a second message to everyone in the class (be sure to include me on your distribution list!). Bush ("Introducing Teachers to Technology") suggests several modes of faculty development. Describe to everyone what opportunities for faculty development in the area of technology are available to you at your school. If there are none available, which ones would you like to see implemented?

July 1, 1998

  1. Do a search for possible keypal partners. Come up with at least two sources. Where might you begin your search?
  2. Use your e-mail distribution list to send your "finds" to everyone in the class. Be sure to mention what language you are working with.
  3. In MS Word, prepare a two-column list (using the "table" feature of MSWord) of the advantages and disadvantages of e-mail from the perspective of both the student and the teacher. Save your document. Then mail it to me as an e-mail attachment.
  4. Subscribe to FLTeach.  Read the information you will be sent on how to use FLTeach.  Search the archives for at least one topic that interests you (ex:  block scheduling, first day activities, teaching a grammar point such as the subjunctive, etc.).

July 2, 1998

  1. Explore the foreign language search engines. Which one(s) are most useful to you?
  2. Using the foreign language search engines, locate ten internet sources you think might be useful to your classes. Bookmark each one.
  3. Send an e-mail to the class (using your distribution list) giving everyone the URLs for your "Top Ten."

July 6, 1998

  1. Introduction to HTML - see resource page for HTML primers
  2. Begin preparation of your personal home page.

July 7-8, 1998

  1. Add a picture to your homepage that you have taken from the Web. For instructions on how to snatch an image off the Web, click here.
  2. In Microsoft Word, prepare a letter of introduction for your students in French or Spanish. Scan a photo of yourself to include in your document. For scanning instructions, click here. For instructions on how to insert an image into a MSWord document, click here.
  3. Prepare an overhead transparency of a map you would like to use for your courses next year. For detailed instructions, click here.

July 9, 1998

  1. Add your schedule (in the form of a table) to your homepage. For instructions on how to do tables, see Making a Table
  2. Record a one-sentence greeting and add it to your home page. (We will try to do this eventually, once the new system in the LRC has been stabilized.  For now, put this on hold and substitue a *.wav file that you have snagged from the Web).

July 10, 1998

  1. Keeping in mind the classes you will be teaching in the fall, prepare three internet activities you could use for these classes (See Bush, Ch. 7). Do one activity for each of the following:
  2. Write up each activity (with appropriate URLs included)  as a web page.. Keep in mind the three steps of preview, activity, post-learning.  Put links to these new pages on your home page.
  3. Prepare a small crossword puzzle you might use to review content.  Print it out, along with the solution.

July 13, 1998

  1. If you're a glutton for punishment, use the Forms Tutorial prepare a new HTML document which consists of the Survey form. Your form should contain five elements: a text box, radio buttons, checkboxes, a drop box, and a text area box.  On the other hand, if you're into doing things the easy way, use QuizCenter to prepare your form.
  2. When your form is completed, put a link to it on your home page.

July 14, 1998

  1. Prepare (as an HTML document) a form-based language activity for first-year French, German, Latin or Spanish. This need not be a lengthy document, but you should include at least three of the form item types (text box, radio buttons, check boxes, drop boxes, text area) we did in the survey exercise.  You may hard code this page or use QuizCenter to prepare it--your choice.
  2. Once your HTML document is finished, put a link to it on your home page.

July 15, 1998

  1. Begin preparation of a PowerPoint presentation on any aspect of French/Spanish culture that you could use in an intermediate or advanced class next year. Your presentation should consist of six slides with the following elements included:

July 16, 1998

  1. Complete PowerPoint presentation
  2. Put a link to your PowerPoint presentation on your home page.
  3. Complete any other unfinished items.
  4. Post all files to the web.

July 17, 1998

The last day of class will be devoted to a final discussion session followed by "show and tell". Each member of the class will use the overhead projection system to present the following: When it's all over but the shouting, turn up the volume on your computer and click here.
Patricia L. Pecoy
MFL 195
This page was last updated on July 9, 1998