SITE 2006

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SITE 2006

• Enriching Online Syllabi for French Courses at
  the Click of a Mouse
• Nathan L. Love
• Western Kentucky University
• (updated 9-10-07)

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Communicating with Students

• Does dynamic online syllabus leads to
  communication?
• Case of French Composition Grammar

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Handouts, PowerPoints, Worksheets, Links
• F102 Elementary French II
• F325 Survey I French Literature

Although there are separate pages for handouts,
PowerPoints, Worksheets and Web links, rather
than advising the class to visit one of the
separate pages, the relevant documents are
linked from within the syllabus.
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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Convergence of
• Presentation, (F102 Elem French II IPA)
• practice, (F202 Intermed Fren II subjunctive
  for 2-1-06)
• assignments, (F328 Pronunciation assigned for
  9-8-05)
• assessments (F426 Fren lit 20th final exam)

Whether presentation, practice exercise,
assignments, quiz or exam, all are brought
together at specific junctures on the syllabus.
Frequent recourse to the syllabus as a focal
point has benefits.
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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Convergence of French
• texts, (F314 Intro Fren Lit Victor Hugo)
• sound, (F328 Pronunciation poem)
• visual elements of culture (F102 Elem French II
  rôti de veau)(French literature courses and
  overview of French literature)

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Assignments added as we go
• Nested help (F420 Composition) activities w/in
  assignments (F202 Intermediate Fren II)
• Format of approaching exams or quizzes (F426 Lit
  20th)
• Main syllabus entries for class w/ links to
  handouts (e.g. Descartes F426) activities
  F331 Business French Worksheet w/ sound
• Posting feedback on quizzes F102 Elem French II
  (dictée)
• Posting grades (F102 Elem French II )

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus extending beyond itself, opening
  outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• PowerPoint w/ video follow-up questions (F101
  Motifs video)
• PowerPoint w/ activity elements of multimedia
  (F101 Motifs vocab. of clothing)
• Links to Internet (F102 vêtements)
• Quiz in HTML (F202 Subjonctif)
• PowerPoint for Lit course (F325 versification)

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Engaging Students of French

• Centrality of the online syllabus
• Convergence of presentation, practice,
  assignments, assessments
• Convergence of French texts, sound, visual
  elements of culture
• Online syllabus as dynamic
• Online syllabus engaging through interactivity
• Online syllabus as extending beyond itself,
  opening outward

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Engaging Students of French

• Online syllabus as extending beyond itself,
  opening outward
• Interactive exercises on Internet F102 Elem
  French II (passé composé imparfait)
• Seeing larger corpus of author F314 Intro Fren
  Lit (Villon)
• French historical sites as extensions of
  illustrations in readings F323 Civ Cult (1st
  day)
• Listening practice F201 Intermed Fren II w/ the
  BBC

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Communicating with Students

• Does dynamic online syllabus leads to
  communication?
• The path of communication within the syllabus is
  often unilateral, from teacher to student only.

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Communicating with Students

• Case of French Composition (F420) Grammar and
  reciprocal communication
• Students submit compositions via email receive
  feedback via email
• Students view work of all common problems
  addressed with computer projection in classroom
• Students then resubmit

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Brainstorming with You Looking Ahead

• More to be done with asynchronous synchronous
  communication
• Other ideas ?