Navigating the Future: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century Kimberly Armstrong, Boubakary Diakite, Oscar Retterer, Cindy Yetter-Vassot Franklin & Marshall, Lancaster, PA USA Presentation at the The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Languages Expo San Antonio, Texas, USA November 18, 2008

1. Navigating the Future
Technology and Learning in the 21st Century

2. Kim Armstrong
Associate Professor of Spanish
Boubakary Diakité
Assistant Professor of French
Oscar Retterer
Director of Instructional and Emerging Technologies
Cindy Yetter-Vassot
Associate Professor of French

3. http://edisk.fandm.edu/kim.armstrong/actfl07/

4. ...the Internet has reached into–and,
in some cases, reshaped–just about
every important realm of modern life.
It has changed the way we inform
ourselves, amuse ourselves, care for
ourselves, educate ourselves, work,
shop, the Internet has reached into–
and, in some cases, reshaped–just
about every important realm of
modern life.
From Pew Report on Internet Evolution

5. Wikis
YouTube
Audacity
Profcast
Internet
Wimba Slidecast
Skype
Social Networking
Web 2.0
Podcasts Blogs Comic life
My Space
Facebook
iGoogle Picasa

6. Overview
• • •
Easy and Free Easy and Expensive
Cheap
• •
Web 2.0 Wimba
• Comic Life
• iGoogle
• Profcast
• Slidecast
• Picasa
• YouTube

7. Evaluation
When students work with these new media, how do
we evaluate it?

9. iGoogle

10. Customizable

11. Interactive

12. Sharing Files
Google Docs
SlideShare
Picasa
Flickr

13. Google Docs

14. SlideShare

15. Sharing Photos

16. flickr

17. YouTube

18. Available films
• Diez minutos
• Viaje a la luna
• Le voyages dans la lune

19. • http://www.zaramella.com.ar/http://
www.zaramella.com.ar/

20. ComicLife
Create a storyboard

21. ComicLife as
Literature?
Professor Boubakary Diakité
explains

22. Profcast

23. Audio + Visual = Learning
Take any Powerpoint or Keynote
presentation and add your oral
commentary!

24. Web-based, but pricey!
Wimba Voice Tools

25. Evaluation...
• What are we evaluating?
• Language
grammar
pronunciation
vocabulary
sociolinguistic appropriateness
reflective of classwork

26. Evaluation...
• Creativity
originality of ideas
critical thinking
problem solving

27. Visual Materials
variety
complementary
originality

28. Technical Expertise?
Computer literacy?

29. www.4teachers.com