Designing media projects and portfolios for language learners

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Designing media projects and portfolios for
language learners

• Paul Daniels

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Mobile devices

• Mobile Phone
• PDA
• iPod
• Mobile PC

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Learner portfolios projects

• Author
• Collect
• Reflect
• Select
• Share

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Media projects Portfolios

• Add authenticity to classroom (photos, audio,
  video)
• Create museum of everyday life
• Collect, preserve, interpret objects
• Construct knowledge
• Encourage collaboration between learners

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Student produced example
A day in the life of a KUT Student
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Mobile Blogs
images
text
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Moodle blog
Record voice through webpage
upload media files
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Moodle blog
Voice blog post
video post
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Media project ideas

• Interactive Story
• Culture Capsule
• Campus Introduction
• Hometown Introduction
• Picture Dictionary
• Online Mystery

• Family Album
• Demonstration
• Campus News
• Reporting
• Documentary
• Online Museum

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Nuts Bolts

• Online services
• Open-source solutions
• User management

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Online media serviceswith mobile support

• Blogger
• Flickr
• MoblogUK
• TypePad Pro
• Snep.it

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Limitations

• Sign-up process
• Storage restrictions
• Advertising
• Customization
• Privacy
• Searchable collection

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Open source media solutions

• Moodle (Course Management)
• Gallery (Media Management)
• Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI)

• Tailoring to your needs
• integrate with content management system
• integrate with mobile devices

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Managing media projects

• Image, video audio support
• multiple user support
• Mail support
• Ease of use
• Clean professional look
• Resize of images
• Searchable
• Integration w/CMS (module or LDAP)

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Project Portfolio Assessment
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Assessment expectations
Tasks
Rubrics
Record of Achievement
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Constructivist Positivist

• Construct meaning
• Represents the process of learning
• Qualitative knowledge
• Learning and formative evaluation

• Meaning is constant
• Represents what and how much was learned
• Quantitative knowledge
• Certification / accreditation

Pearl and Leon Paulson (1994)
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Balancing objective qualitative assessment
Standardized tests
Self- assessment
Rubrics
Learning Accountability
Performance- based
Informalfeedback
Stefanakis-Barrett Model of Portfolio Differences
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Scoring Rubrics
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Qualitative assessment of writing

• frequent phrases
• frequencies of words
• number of words, characters, sentences
  syllables
• unique words
• number of sentences
• average words per sentence
• lexical density
• readability indexes
• word length, frequency
• analyses words grammatically

www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp
www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php
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Actively involve learners

• Peer evaluation
• Self-reflection self-assessment
• Follow-up activities

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Benefits

• Increased motivation
• Increased problem-solving ability
• Improved research skills
• Increased collaboration
• Increased resource-management skills

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Obstacles

• Preparation time
• Classroom control
• Willingness towards self-learning
• Objective assessments
• Use of L1

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Thank youQuestions?paul at hokulele dot us
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Server processing
POP Mail Server
Browser
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Web Server Web-basedSoftware
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