Presented by Nadine Di Vito (French). In less than an hour, participants will learn to take a video segment and turn it into a nifty DVD clip or mp3 file using iMovie and iDVD for the DVD clip and Sound Studio to make the mp3 file. All are welcome, especially those who feel that they are technologically-challenged!

Veronica Vegna (Italian), Meng Li (Chinese) and Lidwina van den Hout (Spanish) attended a national conference sponsored by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning at Brown University early this month. The main topic discussed at the conference was Reassessing the Foreign Language Curriculum in the Age of Globalization, which responded to the recent MLA (Modern Language Association) report, "Foreign Language and Higher Education". This report raised several issues: among them are the need of transforming academic programs in order to help students acquire translingual and transcultural competence, and the importance of changing the two-tiered system in Higher Education. Vegna, Li and van den Hout are very enthusiastic about sharing the information discussed at the conference, and will run a panel discussion at CSL for all of us.

If you plan to produce videos this summer or would like to learn basic aspects of video production, please join this workshop. Participants will learn not only how to use a video camera but also how to frame better video images and record better sound in various cases. In the first session, Kay Yang will also introduce two video-related applications presented in the CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) conference this March, which might give you some useful information about how to use video in your class. (Registration will be required for this workshop. Please contact Kay at kyang@uchicago.edu if you like to participate. If you are interested but the time doesn't work for you, please also contact Kay.

• Session I: Thursday, May 1, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210
 (Reviewing previous video projects and discussion.)
• Session II: Thursday, May 8, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210
 (Recording interviews in automatic mode and reviewing.)
• Session III: Thursday, May 15, 1:30-3:00, Cobb 210
 (Recording programmed mode: white balance adjustment, manual focus, manual audio recording level adjustment, etc.)
• hand-out, video clip

We will kick off CSL workshop series Spring 08 with Liamar Duran Almarza, assistant coordinator and lecturer in Spanish language department. She has been using the Wiki provided through the Chalk in her class so that students share their researched materials with each other and use them in oral presentations. Based on her innovative way of using the tool, Ms. Almarza will introduce different ways to integrate Web 2.0 tools into foreign language class as a means of bringing cultural components to the class and providing students with an opportunity to learn collaboratively while further developing their receptive and productive skills in the target language.

• Session 1, Session 1 Answer
• Session 2, Session 2 Answer
• Session 3, Session 3 Answer
• Session 5

Workshop Material

• Workshop Material
• Web Share Tutorial (wmv format, quicktime movie format)