Multimedia in Language Teaching: A Professional Development Workshop for K-12 World Language Teachers University of Pittsburgh Monday, June 25, 2001 through Friday, June 29, 2001

Flyer Multimedia Resources Professional Resources Images on the Web Resources for Making Web Pages Using Web-based Resources  The Dark Side! Presenters For Fun  Participants' Projects

Multimedia Resources Writing for Multimedia: http://edvista.com/claire/multi2000.html QuickTime 101: http://edvista.com/claire/qt/index.html SoundRecorder (Macintosh): http://dgrwww.epfl.ch/~jenny/ Audacity (Mac, PC, and Linux): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/audacity QuickEditor (Mac, and PC): http://wild.ch/quickeditor/ GraphicConverter: http://www.lemkesoft.de ColorIt!: http://www.microfrontier.com/ Fair use of copyrighted works: http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html Copyright in an Electronic Environment: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/copyright1.html Student-Produced Multimedia Projects: Pedagogy and Practice http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/97/dec/wakao.htm MGI Video Wave (Video editing for PC): http://www.mgisoft.com/products/vw/index.asp TOP

Professional Resources American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: http://www.actfl.org/ Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association (PSMLA): http://www.psmla.org Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTEACH): http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/ WWW Resources for Language Teachers (from FLTEACH): http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html FL teachers on the Web: http://users.erols.com/jbrennan/flteachers.htm Foreign language lesson plans and resources for teachers: http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslsp.html The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities: http://www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld.html Planning a Language Resource Center: http://edvista.com/claire/labplan.html TOP

Images on the Web UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library: http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/ Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction, by Kazumi Hatasa: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/default.html The Virtual Picture Album at the University of Minnesota: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/VPA/VPA.html Kodak Picture of the Day: http://www.kodak.com/ Click on "Picture of the Day." Pictures are searchable by category. Alta Vista search engine: http://www.altavista.com/ Click on "Images." TOP

Resources for Making Web Pages A Personal Web Page for Effective Language Teaching: http://www.llrc.pitt.edu/llab/techworkshops01/page.html HTML Crash Course for Educators, Andy Carvin: http://www.edwebproject.org/htmlintro.html EMBED Tags for QuickTime on the Web: http://edvista.com/claire/qt/embedtags/index.html Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html Web page Style Guide at Yale University: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html Web Pages that Suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ What to do if all this is too much trouble: Quia: (Create online games and quizzes for your students automatically): http://www.quia.com/ TrackStar:(Create pages with links and activities): http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ QuizStar: (Create quizzes of various types): http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3 Nicenet:(Create a discussion board for your class): http://www.nicenet.org/ Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ TOP

Using Web-based Resources Designing Activities Based on Authentic Web-based Resources: http://www.llrc.pitt.edu/llab/techworkshops00/authentic.html Exploration & Evaluation of Instructional Web Sites for Language Learning: http://www.llrc.pitt.edu/llab/techworkshops00/index.html Resources for Constructivism: http://www.llrc.pitt.edu/llab/techworkshops01/constructivism.html Spanish: Ojalá que llueva café, Exercises for Spanish by Barbara Nelson: http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/ojala/index.html German driving test: http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/~clove/ger225/autos.html French: Les Fromages de France: http://myweb.worldnet.net/~landais/cheeses.html TOP

The Dark Side The Dark Side of the Web: http://edvista.com/claire/darkweb/index.html TOP

Presenters Bonnie Youngs, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University Home page: http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/ml/directory/Youngs.html byoungs@andrew.cmu.edu Claire Bradin Siskin, MA. University of Pittsburgh Home Page: http://edvista.com/claire/index.html  cbsiskin@pitt.edu TOP

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Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh
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Last revision: August 15, 2001