ClipFlair - Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Captioning and Revoicing of Clips http://ClipFlair.net ClipFlair is a European-funded project for foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioning of clips. Revoicing refers to any interaction between speech and image, such as dubbing, audio description, karaoke singing and reciting. Captioning refers to any interaction between writing and image, such as conventional subtitling, same language subtitling, transcription, video annotations and comments. If you are interested in our work, please subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ClipFlair) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/ClipFlair).

1. 1
ClipFlair Project Overview
Workpackages, partner roles and work plan
Kick-off meeting
Patra, 8-9 December 2011
Stavroula Sokoli
Project coordination team
UPF

2. 2
Needs
The project aims to address:
• (a) the insufficient quantity of online educational
materials for lesser used languages and their
promotion;
• (b) the need for new educational tools and ideas for
foreign language learning,
• (c) the stagnancy of research for new methodologies in
FLL, and
• (d) the little awareness of accessibility issues when it
comes to audiovisuals and FLL

3. 3
Aims and objectives
• to establish a methodological framework for FLL
through the interaction of text (written and spoken),
image (still or moving) and sound
• to develop educational materials for FL learning by
covering the four skills (reading, listening , writing and
speaking) and reinforcing cultural awareness
• to create a web community, with the use of appropriate
web 2.0 tools that will give learners and instructors the
opportunity to cooperate with other users and provide
their own input to the process
• to disseminate and exploit the project products

4. 4
Main outputs
• A web platform through which the users will be able to
create, upload and access the revoicing and captioning
activities. It will also support social-networking, offering
Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, tags) that will enable users to
share their work, form groups, cooperate, interact and rate
activities
• A library of resources containing over 300 activities for all
CEFR levels of the 15 languages targeted, accompanied by
corresponding lesson plans and relevant metadata
• Guidelines for activity creation and evaluation criteria
• An online community of over 2,000 learners, teachers and
activity authors.

5. 5
Partner roles
• Project Coordinator: UPF
• ICT & Educational Technology Expert: CTI
• Domain Expert (for designing the pedagogical
methodology): All project partners
• Activity Developer: all project partners
• Local coordinator: UPF, UAB, ICL and NUI have
established connections with the Associate Partners
involved and will guide them through the piloting task
• Evaluator: University of Deusto.
• The summative evaluation is the responsibility of Joselia
Neves

6. 6
Some numbers in brief
• duration: 30 months (01 Dec 11 – 31 May 14)
• total budget: 532.578€
▫ LLP grant: 399.433€
▫ Own contribution: 133.145€
• three funding phases:
▫ advance payment 40%
▫ interim report 30-40%
▫ final report 20-30%

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Work Packages
WP1. Project Management
WP2. Framework-Specifications
WP3. Web platform design and development
WP4. Development of FLL activities
WP5. Pilot use of the activities
WP6. Quality Assurance and Evaluation
WP7. Dissemination
WP8. Exploitation

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Work plan
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
wp1
wp2
wp3
wp4
wp5
wp6
wp7
wp8

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WP1. Project Management
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c d
a) Kick-off meeting
▫ action plan
▫ conceptual framework, theoretical issues, terminology
▫ design lesson plan template
▫ specify metadata to include in each activity
b) Second meeting
▫ evaluate beta version
▫ prepare progress report
• Dissemination and exploitation to be discussed in all
meetings

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WP1. Project Management
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c d
c) Third meeting
▫ improve beta version
▫ update criteria for selection of material & activity development
▫ pilot use issues
▫ adapt or suggest new target groups
c) Final meeting after ClipFlair conference
▫ prepare final report
▫ discuss project results, future perspectives
• WP leader: UPF

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WP2. Framework-Specifications
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b
a) Conceptual framework and pedagogical methodology
(first release)
▫ fundamental principles involved in FLL and video
awareness
▫ synthesis of specialized literature and relevant projects
▫ definitions of terms
▫ educational specifications for the revoicing and the
captioning tools leading to functional specifications and
the design of the web platform

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WP2. Framework-Specifications
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b
b) Conceptual framework and pedagogical methodology
(final release)
▫ activity templates, samples, materials and guidelines
▫ lesson-plan templates and samples
▫ clip selection criteria, ideas and instructions for developing
activities
▫ assessment methods and sample tests
• WP leader: UPF

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WP3. Web platform design &
development
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c d
a) System specification and design document
▫ based on the educational specifications as described in the first release
of the Conceptual Framework
b) Alpha version of the Web platform
▫ containing tools for activity authors
c) Beta version (accompanied by user manual)
▫ fully functional
d) Final version
▫ incorporating feedback from the system testing report, the piloting
results, and the final evaluation report
• WP leader: CTI

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WP4. Development of FLL activities
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c
a) First release of revoicing & captioning activities
 An activity is a learning object consisting of multimedia files,
instructions, other reference material, pre- or post-activity exercises
 It is accompanied by metadata and a lesson plan
b) Second release incorporating peer evaluation
c) At least 300 activities for 15 languages
• WP leader: NUIG

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WP4. Minimum number of activities
Partner Activities
P1. UPF 12 Greek, 12 English, 12 Spanish. Total 36
P3. UAB 12 Catalan, 12 Chinese, 12 Arabic, 12 Portuguese. Total 49
P4. ICL 10 Spanish, 8 Chinese, 4 Arabic, 4 Portuguese, 12 Japanese. Total 38
P5. UBB 24 Romanian, 20 Spanish, 4 Russian, 12 Catalan, 18 English, 4 Ukranian.
Total: 82
P6. UD 10 Basque. Total: 10
P7. TLU 22 Estonian. Total: 22
P8. UW 18 Polish, 15 English. Total: 33
P9. UALG 8 Portuguese. Total: 8
P10. NUIG 16 Irish, 6 English. Total: 22

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WP5. Pilot use of the activities
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a) Two cycles in the piloting phase.
b) Peer evaluation (social features of the web platform)
c) More than 2,000 users:
 1,200 partner university students
 800 adult and secondary learners from associate partners
 40 teachers
• WP leader: UAB

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WP6. Quality Assurance and
Evaluation
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c b d
a) Quality Management Plan. Evaluation Plan
b) Project Progress Evaluation Reports
c) System Testing Report
d) Summative Evaluation Report (Joselia Neves, external
evaluator)
• WP leader: UD

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WP7. Dissemination
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a b c d
a) Dissemination plan (ICL – all partners)
 educators, policy and decision makers in the field of education
 target group organisations and support groups
 interested parties, the general public, stakeholders
b) Promotional leaflet. Project portal (CTI)
c) Demonstration video (CTI)
d) Final conference. Publications (all partners)
• WP leader: ICL

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WP7. Dissemination 1 of 3
Dissemination activities are horizontal with the aim to promote the
project products through:
• a) project dissemination deliverables: the dissemination plan, web
portal, project leaflet, demonstration video and final conference.
• b) official sites dedicated to the promotion of LWUT languages, e.g.
the Official Catalan Government, Department of Linguistic Policy
web site.
• c) specialised language learning blogs, newsgroups, mailing lists,
forums, RSS feeds.
• d) raising awareness and support through facebook, twitter and
YouTube
• e) participation in thematic monitoring seminars with a view to
exchanging experiences on the project and on valorisation
activities, with project promoters working in the same area.
• f) links with other projects & networks, such as EduTubePlus.info

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WP7. Dissemination 2 of 3
g) publications in journals and participation in conferences such
as:
• - Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012
in Turkey.
• - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
2012, 2013, 2014 in USA.
• - British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2012 in
Southampton and 2013 in Edinburgh - Media for All 5,
Croatia, September 2013
• - the European Second Language Association annual
conference
• -“ICT in Language Learning” in Florence, Italy:
• - IATIS conference, 2013 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
• - ESIST conference, Berlin 2012

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WP7. Dissemination 3 of 3
The following indicators of achievement will be used. Number
of:
• visitors to the portal
• publications (papers, newsletters, articles)
• events at various levels (local, regional, national,
international)
• meetings with stakeholders at various levels (local, regional,
national, international)
• piloters etc. reached
• participations in conferences
• target users reached through all the above-stated activities,
events & publications.

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WP8. Exploitation of results
11 2012 2013 2014
Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May
a) Multiplication
 Spreading the use of the tool in educational communities
 Short term target groups are the first users of the pilot phase: 2,000
b) Mainstreaming
 integration of the project results in the curriculum of the universities,
secondary schools and adult education providers involved
 meetings organised by the partners in each country with national and
regional education authorities and policy makers
c) Connections with other projects, joining European Networks
d) WP leader: UAB