18:00-21:00, Rooms H2A & H2E (Bring your own device)
- 18:00 – 19:20
Room H2A: Creating green-screen educational videos
Amanda Muller, Flinders University
- 19:40 – 21:00
Room H2A: Using Moodle in the language classroom
Eric Hagley, Muroran Institute of Technology & Thom Rawson, Nagasaki International University
Sponsored by Moodle Association of Japan
- 19:40 – 21:00
Room H2E: Mobile technologies for language learning
Paul Daniels, Kochi University of Technology
- 18:00 – 19:20
Room H2A: Creating green-screen educational videos
Amanda Muller, Flinders University
Multimedia learning materials assists learning, particularly in courses which have a great deal of text-based learning. This workshop will look at one form of multimedia production enabled by green-screen recording methods and the use of chromakeying in video software. Green-screen recording can be undertaken by both teachers and students. Teachers can use green-screen recording to allow the insertion of different image or video backgrounds (post-production) and make visually interesting learning materials. Students can use green-screen recording to allow them to insert contextualised backgrounds for their spoken output. This workshop will go through the basic steps of production and show how to edit and produce a video using readily-available video software. There will be a discussion about how these videos can be used to encourage language improvement and other education outcomes.
Note that for this workshop, Camtasia will be used, but there are a wide range of free apps and software that allow green-screen manipulations.
- 19:40 – 21:00
Room H2A: Using Moodle to improve the language classroom
Eric Hagley, Muroran Institute of Technology & Thom Rawson, Nagasaki International University
Sponsored by Moodle Association of Japan
This is a workshop that will cover a number of Moodle related issues as well as introduce how to participate in the International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) which is run on Moodle. The Moodle novice in addition to those who have a good grasp of Moodle will be catered for. Participants will be able to learn the basics of Moodle by working hands on in real courses. Moodle is an interactive website useful for most learning environments. It is an open source (free) learning management system that can be a one-stop location for giving online quizzes, handling email announcements to students, providing handouts for download, and publishing protected student blogs, chatrooms, forums, wikis, or glossaries. This workshop will give an overview of what Moodle is and showcase quickly some of its features. Participants will then see how they can participate in the IVEProject. The presenters will then train teachers to be able to create content using Moodle. Even teachers who have never used computers for teaching may find it useful to see how discussion forums, blogs, chatrooms, surveys, online quizzes, the gradebook and other interactive activities can make livelier learning programs and streamline management of assignments, grades, and delivery of other learning materials. In particular, the most common features of Moodle: forums, quizzes and resources will be created. Participants will also be able to request specific feature explanations too.
Thom Rawson is an Associate Professor at Nagasaki International University, Sasebo, Japan. He, along with his team, recently was awarded the New Technology research award at the Japan e-Learning Awards in Tokyo. His networking of LMS sites together for collaborative projects between universities is another way teachers and students can easily access the IVE project. He has been instrumental in developing virtual exchanges for both his students and other practitioners around the world.
Eric Hagley teaches at Muroran Institute of Technology. His research interests are in virtual exchange, telecollaboration and extensive reading. He is the chair of the Asia Pacific Virtual Exchange Association (APVEA) and head of the International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Project. The IVE Project has had over 7000 students from 8 countries participate in online language and culture exchanges over the last 2 years. He has also been the head of the Moodle Reader quiz quality assurance project.
- 19:40 – 21:00
Room H2E: Mobile technologies for language learning, an open-space session
Paul Daniels, Kochi University of Technology
The purpose of this participant-driven session is to bring together educators who are using Mobile technology in the classroom to share with each other how mobile technologies are being used in the language classroom. Depending on the number of attendees, participants will have a few minutes to demonstrate how they are using mobile technologies with their learners.
Paul Daniels is a professor at Kochi University of Technology. His research involves CALL, ESP and project-based-instruction. He actively develops Moodle plugins and mobile apps for language learning.