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Future Plans
ALLE is presently working, in collaboration with colleagues at the University
of Alberta, on the development of templatesto
enable teachers to develop their own instructional materials in technological
formats.
The ALLE Web Workshops for second language teachers, which were
very successful in 1997-98, and 1998-99, will again be offered in the 1999-2000
school/academic year. If you are interested in participating and/or
would like more information, please email kguevara@acs.ucalgary.ca.
ALLE is collaborating with colleagues at other universities, especially
the University of Alberta, the University of Regina (Saskatchewan), and
the University of Waterloo (Ontario), to implement and propagate the ALLE
concept of involving language teachers as full partners in the technological
revolution that is overtaking education. Teachers are not simply
consumers of technological products designed and made elsewhere.
Without getting involved in time-consuming programming or steep learning
curves, it is now possible for teachers to make use of technology in various
forms in ways that are relevant to their teaching practice.
Further collaboration has begun with the English Language Centre at
the University of Giessen, Germany, and with the Department of French as
a Second Language at the University of Grenoble, France.
Some lectures on ALLE
Talk on ALLE at the University of Regina
| Presenter |
Dr. Esther Enns, Department of Germanic, Slavic
and East Asian Studies, U of Calgary. |
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University of Regina, University Centre,
UC 286 |
| Time |
3 p.m. on Thurday April 23. |
| Topic |
The ALLE Project: Alberta Language Learning Environment. Systems
and Networks for Producing Technology Enhanced Language Learning Materials |
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How can language instructors make meaningful
technology-mediated learning widely available to their students? |
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What strategies and systems can support them
in their efforts? |
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Guided by these questions, the ALLE project gives
language instructors an alternative to using commercial language learning
software with their students. ALLE is constructivist in approach.
it enables language instructors from all levels and institutions to create
electronic materials from resources that are readily accessible as well
as relevant to them and their particular students' curriculum. The
project is establishing a provincial and inter-provincial network of collaborating
action groups which share results and evaluate the ALLE process.
The project design can encompass all languages and levels of instruction,
including non-Roman alphabets. |
The Toilberta Professional Development Website in French
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Developed for the Second Languages Branch of the Department of Education,
Province of Alberta
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For Teachers of French as a Second Language
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Developed by two members of the ALLE group:
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Lise Sinclair, Winston Churchill HS and MA Student U of Calgary.
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Brian Gill, Dept. of French, Italian & Spanish, U of Calgary.
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Presently located at http://fis.ucalgary.ca/~bgill/toile
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Contents:
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Introduction to Windows and the Web
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Resources for Language Teachers
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How to create your own Web Page
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List of French sites for the domaines d'éxpérience of the
Alberta FSL curriculum
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Examples of pedagogically sound uses of the Web for language teaching
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Chat possibilities
Conferences on the ALLE project
Brian Gill, “The ALLE project”, paper presented at the FLEAT3 international
conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning, University of Victoria,
Canada, August 13, 1997.
At the invitation of the French government, ALLE co-director Dr. Brian
Gill, under took a mission to France in October 1998, to visit French institutions
active in Computer assisted language learning (Universities of Grenoble,
Besançon, Bordeaux, Rennes, and the CIEP in Paris). Conferences
on the ALLE project were presented in Grenoble and Besançon.
The complete official report on the mission is available here
(in French).
Recent Workshops
1998 Web Workshops for Language Teachers
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Workshop 1: University of Calgary, February 25, 1998.
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Principal Presenter André Oberlé, University of Winnipeg
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30 participants
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Languages represented: ESL, French, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian,
Russian
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Levels: Grades 5 to 12, post-secondary
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Workshop 2: Salisbury Composite HS, Sherwood Park, February 28, 1998
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Principal Presenter André Oberlé, University of Winnipeg
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20 participants
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Languages represented: ESL, French, German
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Levels: Grades 5 to 12
1998 Web Workshops for Language Teachers
| The next workshops, described below, involved two sessions per workshop
at the University of Calgary. Presenters were Brian Gill, Tina Leard
and Lise Sinclair. Brian is Associate Professor in the Department
of French, Italian and Spanish of the U of Calgary. Tina is a student
in the Faculty of Education, U of Calgary, and Research Assistant in the
Department of French Italian and Spanish. Lise is a French teacher
at Winston Churchill HS and a graduate student in the Department of French,
Italian and Spanish. |
When?
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Workshop A: Session 1 Saturday April 4, 10
to 1; Session 2, Saturday April 25, 10 to 1, 1998
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Workshop B: Session 1, Tuesday May 5, 4.30
to 7.30; Session 2, Tuesday May 19, 4.30 to 7.30, 1998
For Whom?
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Language teachers K-U (i.e. K-12 and post secondary)
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Sessions were given in English, with examples in English, French, and other
languages.
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Minimal familiarity with computers was required. Participants had
to be able to use a mouse and have some idea about opening and closing
windows, saving files, etc.
What did we do?
Session 1
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discussed advantages of the Web as a tool in second language teaching and
learning (and some disadvantages!)
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saw some examples of good uses
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learned about local and remote use of your browser
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learned how to organize bookmarks
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used search engines and jump stations
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created a simple page for your students using an editor
Session 2
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shared problems, frustrations and successes with our projects
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show and tell about some of the sites participants have discovered
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discussed advantages and disadvantages of the Web for language teaching
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learned how to annotate bookmarks
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used more advanced features of the editor
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learned how to organize Web pages
When?
Workshop A: Introductory
Web Workshop
Session 1 Saturday September 26,
1998,
9:30-3:30;
Session 2 Tuesday and Wednesday,
September 29-30, 1998
4:30-7:30pm each night
Workshop B: Web
Production Studio
Session 1 Tuesday and
Wednesday
October 20-21, 1998
4:30pm-7:30pm each night
Session 2 Saturday,
October 24, 1998
9:30am-3:30pm
Current
Workshops
When?
Web
Resources
Thursday, March 4, 1999
4:15pm-6:30 pm
Using
the Web,
Tuesday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 23
4:15pm-6:30 pm each night
Creating
Web Pages
Tuesday April 20 and Tuesday April 27
4:15pm-6:30 pm each night
Where?
University of Calgary Campus, Craigie Hall E212
To register
Please contact Katherine
Guevara, Dept. of French, Italian and Spanish. Phone at 220-4002 or
fax at 284-3634.
Cost?
No cost to practicing teachers.
For more Details: Workshops
Winter 1999
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