1. Learning Languages from a Distance: The Potential of Technology ACTFL 2007 Ann Tollefson Tom Welch

2. What kind of students are in our classrooms today? What kind of students can we expect to have in our classrooms tomorrow?

3. Did You Know? Video clip

4. We tend to teach as we have learned… “…our generation has grown up in a broadcast world with television as a perhaps our primary source of information. It is a unidirectional transmission of content to passive receivers.” Bobby Hobgood, Becoming an Online Teacher

5. What kind of learners are our students? They have grown up knowing and using technology to actively seek out information in a way that makes sense to them, at their own pace. Their primary source of information is the Internet. They must actively pursue, evaluate, and construct meaning from the information they pursue. Bobby Hobgood, Becoming an Online Teacher

6. How Can Technology Help Today’s and Tomorrow’s Students Learn? What technologies exist today to support distance learning? The Internet Interactive Video Podcasting Blogging Video Streaming Other?

7. What IS Distance Learning? "The acquisition of Knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance". US Distance Learning Association

8. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- some examples Via Interactive Video Conferencing: Kentucky: French, German, Spanish FLES Spanish (1 course from an educational service unit.)

9. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Via Interactive Video Conferencing: Maine: French I/ Advanced ASL 1-4 Mandarin- beginning Japanese- 1-2 Latin I/AP Spanish AP www.mainedistancelearningproject.org

10. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Via Interactive Video Conferencing: Wisconsin: Various languages delivered by… Schools to other schools. Regional educational service centers. University of Wisconsin: Mandarin (Lauren Rosen- lrosen@wisc.edu)

11. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Via Interactive Video Conferencing: Wyoming: (school-to-school) French 1-3 German 1 Russian 1-3 Spanish 1-3

12. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Online: Florida Virtual School Middle-school: Spanish 1 High school: Latin 1-3 Spanish 1-3 Chinese 1

13. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Online: Florida Virtual School Middle-school: Spanish 1 High school: Latin 1-3 Spanish 1-3 Chinese 1

14. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Online: North Carolina Virtual Public School German 1-4 French 1-3 Latin 1-3 Spanish 1-5

15. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Online: Ohio 55 world-language courses currently offered online (Spanish, Latin, French, German, Japanese, and FLES French, German, Spanish) Primarily provided by community schools and virtual academies (many charter schools)

16. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Online: Oklahoma State University Secondary Spanish and German

17. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- more examples Delivered Via Satellite Kansas State University (Spanish) Georgia Public Television (Japanese)

18. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- A New Hybrid Course The Utah Mandarin Course- Utah Department of Education BYU Chinese Flagship Program Utah Legislature University of Utah Currently 16 high schools Next year will expand to 40+ high schools

19. Courses Delivered From a Distance K-12 courses- A New Hybrid Course Utah Mandarin Course- 1) Interactive Video Classes (50 min.) 2) Trained In-class Facilitators (50 min.) Certified teacher or univ. students 3) Backed up by online resources 4) Enhanced by community and summer activities. Contact: Gregg.Roberts@schools.utah.gov

20. Outside the box… What about language learning other than traditional courses delivered via technology?

21. You Tube video made by 200 students at Kansas State University

22. You tube clip- A Vision of Students Today

23. Podcasts: The Potential of iTunes! Student types in “Versailles.” Half-minute video clip from iTunes

24. Podcasts: The Potential of iTunes! Free subscriptions to the BBC’s Mundo Hoy. Daily News in Spanish Delivered Directly to any iPod or Computer

25. Podcasts: iTunes U Currently 28 universities One example: Concordia University Basic Hebrew Course (video/audio podcasts)

26. Other Ideas for Using Technology in the Classroom Webquests Project-based learning: iEARN Globe Other?