Engaging Students with Language Learning through Technology: 
Focus on the Interpretive Mode

April 30, 2016 

 

NOTE: You may want to print out highlighted handouts ahead of time, or you can open them and work with them digitally.

 

Presenters: 

Marlene Johnshoy - johnshoy@umn.edu
Kathryn Murphy-Judy - kmurphy@vcu.edu

Dan Soneson - soneson@umn.edu 

I. Introduction
 

• What is the Interpretive Mode?

 

II. Pedagogical foundations

 

• What is a "text"? 
• Let's watch a video!  (If it doesn't play, try downloading the mp4 file)
• Interpretive Process 
• Video worksheet

 

III. Interpretive Mode with Social Media

 

• Teaching Strategies for Reading/Listening/Viewing 
• Tools & Apps 

 

IV. Models - test and evaluate    (use this Evaluation Grid handout)

 

Audio Jigsaw Activity (whole group activity - divide into groups of 5) - handout

 

Socrative (whole group activity) - Room: KMJQUIZ

 

Image description (Google Doc)

 

Advertisement (EduCanon, now called PlayPosit)

 

TV Guide (Image and Google Form)

 

How to Doodle  (VoiceThread) 

 

Family Photo  (VoiceThread)

 

What can you tell about these texts? (VoiceThread)
       (talk about Moderation)

 

Choose your Own Adventure (YouTube and Google Form)

 

Baking Competition (YouTube and VideoAnt)

 

Choose a Museum (Web Texts -- with a partner)

 

Views of Gender in the Media - Roar! by K. Perry (Zaption)

 

 

V. Discussion

 

• Debrief of evaluation grid
• What does technology contribute to interpretive tasks? 

 

 

 

VI. Tools and Tutorials (from demonstration activities)

 

Add voice to PowerPoint - instructions from Microsoft

    Search google for Video instructions 

    SlideBoom - post your slides without losing the animation and interaction 

 

Socrative - User Guide (pdf)

 

EduCanon - FAQ/Knowledge Base

 

Curriculet 

 

Google Drive - from your Google account, you can create and add files (text, video, etc.) and share them with the world - use the URL or embed in other places

     How to share from your Drive

Google Docs - About | Help Center

Google Forms - About | Help Center 

    Here is a tutorial for creating Google Forms 
    Here is a video to show how to insert a video into a Google form 

 

VideoAnt - About/help

 

VoiceThread - wiki page/examples - How to docs

 

 

 

VII. Participant Demonstrations

 

Post a link to your test activities on this Google doc.

We're not expecting perfection, but we'd like to see what you're experimenting with! 

 

If you have created activities with other tools that you would like to share - please add links to the tools

  

 

VII. Wrap-up and Evaluation

• Questions
• What does technology contribute to interpretive tasks? 
• Workshop Evaluation 

  

 

Additional Resources

 

Google Spreadsheets - https://www.google.com/sheets/about/

Google Slides - https://www.google.com/slides/about/

 

ActivelyLearn is a tool to help students engage around reading content through embedded questions, comments, videos, and notes. ActivelyLearn also enables teachers to view analytics and get a better picture of how their students are engaging around the texts.

 

Ponder is designed to help students engage around reading content or video, but works differently.  Through "micro-responses" Ponder helps scaffold the critical thinking that is necessary for students to take the steps from reading comprehension to analytical production.  Ponder offers students a quick, scaffolded way to respond to content and share their thoughts. Ponder also gives teachers a view of how students are engaging with content.

 

Anvill - create media rich lessons - free.

 

Create your own podcasts for students to listen to.

 

Padlet, iPadio, AudioBoo, SoundCloud

 

and check out many other applications that are in this wiki!

 

Annenberg has a video series on "teaching Foreign Languages" - check out the lesson on interpretive.

 

We also welcome your suggestions for other tools that you like!  (Post to Google doc (your test activities) under "Additional Tool Suggestions")