Jean W. LeLoup, SUNY Cortland, leloupj@cortland.edu
Robert Ponterio, SUNY Cortland, ponterior@cortland.edu
Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association
April 4-6, 2002

Overview of the workshop
 

1. Why use technology in the first place?

A Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course
http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/main.html

2. Electronic discussion lists as resources

LLTI: http://schiller.dartmouth.edu/llti/

FLTEACH: http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/

FLTEACH archive search: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/flteach.html

3. Authentic Materials

• Why Use authentic materials?
• Range of available authentic materials
• Where to find authentic materials
• Collections (task)

http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html#collections
TenneseeBob's site :  http://globegate.utm.edu
Kids' sites :
Internet pour les mômes: http://www.momes.net/
Zéro de conduite: http://www.zdc-fr.com/
Contes et poèmes: http://www.zdc-fr.com/

4.  Browsers:  Netscape

• Bookmarks (editing); useful files
• Printing
• History
• Scrollbar, forward, back
• Accents - US-International Keyboard

5. Searches (task)

Example:
  +"Martin Luther"     -King     +95    +freedom    +theses
 
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://google.com/

6. Pedagogical model – Shrum & Glisan  (task)

• Interactive Model for Reading/Listening Texts (Shrum and Glisan, Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction, 2nd edition)

 
• Preparation phase
• Comprehension phase
• Interpretation phase
• Application phase
• Extension phase

 
Sample activities:
 
• Dentist
• Cine

 
Menu activity - create 1st two phases (Preparation and Comprehension Phases)

More examples:
 

Recreation (French or Spanish)

Identificación personal (Spanish)

7. Renewable media: newspaper, radio, television

• http://newslink.org/
• http://www.comfm.fr/live/radio/
• http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
• http://broadcast-live.com/


Radio: Onda Cero, Radio National de España, Radio France, Radio Canada
Television: Andalucía TV,  Bloomberg TV Madrid, FR3, TVA Québec
Newspaper: El País, La Jornada, Le Monde, Nouvel Observateur, Le Soleil

Sample video activities: Philippe - fêtes, enfants - cuisine

Magazines for kids: www.kidoclic.fr, lardons.com, Educasites: www.educasites.com/enfants/magazine.htm

8.  Multipurposing (w/print media) (task)

Job application Empleo, McDonald's
Wedding anniverary gift advice

9.   Lessons currently available on the web
 

• Guidelines for website/activity evaluation
California FL Teachers Project:
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/evalform.html

CARLA - Technology in Second Language Teaching
http://carla.acad.umn.edu/teacherdev/syllabus/guide3.html

 

• Some activity sites on-line:

 
Civilisation Française:  http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/
 

Taller Hispano:  http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/usafa/taller.html
 

Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom (graduate course materials from LeLoup & Ponterio):
 http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/mm-course/mm-syl.html

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes:  http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html
 

Spanish Language Exercises:  http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/