A Window to the World: Authentic Materials & the World Language Classroom

OFLTA 2011 Summer Technology Workshop

OFLTA Summer 2011 Technology Workshop

Workshop Schedule and Agenda

Note: This workshop does not have a strict agenda, and we have plenty of time for participants who want to organize the authentic materials that they find or create a task for their students using those materials.  If you have questions about applications or know about an application that you want to demonstrate, please let the facilitator know.  If we find that some participants want extra assistance with an application and others feel ready to use it on their own, we may move around in the lab to facilitate those arrangements.

Thursday, August 4

8:30 a.m.                               Check-In/Coffee & Bagels

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.           Morning Session

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.           Lunch on your own

1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             Afternoon Session 
 

Topics for Thursday

• Introductions and workshop housekeeping
• Guiding principle for the workshop:  Authentic materials: Where to find them, how to organize and present them, how to use them 
• Sticky notes: Participant needs and preferences related to authentic materials. Write what you want on the sticky notes, and we'll use them to organize, add, or substract topics from the workshop.
• The ACTFL 21st Century Skills Map and its relationship to authentic materials
• Participant experiences using authentic materials
• Advanced Google search techniques 
• Compilation of language-specific materials / links. We will add the titles, descriptions, and URLs of the sites you find to this wiki. You can either create a Word document listing the sites and email it to the faciltator, or you can request access to this wiki and add them directly. See the language-specific pages in the side bar.
• Participant presentation of selected resources found and discussion of how they could be used to create a variety of communicative activities. 
• Overview of applications used to organize and present authentic materials:  Wikis, LiveBinders, Wix, etc.
• LiveBinders presentation
• Review of day's work and preparation for Friday.

Friday, August 5

8:30 a.m.                               Check-In/Coffee & Bagels

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.           Morning Session

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.           Lunch on your own

1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             Afternoon Session 
 

Topics for Friday

• Introductions and workshop housekeeping as neede 
• Review progress on participant needs and preferences using the sticky notes. Feel free to add a sticky note anytime.
• Presentation on Wix and its pedagogical uses by Dr. Cathleen Skinner and Kendall López of OSU around 9:00
• Presentations on other Internet applications to facilitate use of authentic materials
• Participant work time
• Participants share activities / materials

OFLTA is the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers' Association.  For more information about our organization, please see our website at http://www.oflta.org/page1.aspx. .

The Summer 2011 Technology Workshop was conducted by Dr. Donna Shelton, Associate Professor of Spanish at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where she also serves as the Spanish program coordinator.  If you have questions and would like to contact her, Donna's email is sheltods@nsuok.edu. She is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/donna_shelton and on Google+ at http://gplus.to/DonnaShelton.

If you would like to contribute content to this wiki, look for the Request Access link on the upper right side of this page.

Thursday & Friday
August 4-5, 2011

Meinders School of Business
2501 N. Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK

If you are a visitor to this wiki, you may learn more about OFLTA, the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers' Association, at www.oflta.org.

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