Category: Foreign Language Computing
L&S Learning Support Services is happy to welcome Antonella Caloro back to LSS!
Antonella will be managing the LSS InfoLab in Van Hise Hall and providing desktop computer support to faculty and staff in Van Hise and surrounding buildings. Antonella previously worked at LSS as a Project Assistant and Lab Intern.
LSS will provide a training workshop for instructors on Audacity, an audio recording and editing software, Friday 2 October at 10 a.m. in Van Hise 259A.
10:00-10:30 -- Basic technical training on how to record and edit.
10:30-11:00 -- Discussion about effective usage for instruction.
Students enrolled in French 313: Professional Communication and Culture in the Francophone World had a once in a lifetime experience when their professor Janet Caulkins introduced them to Dr. Pascal Baudry. Baudry is author of Français et Américains, l’autre rive, an influential text on culture and communication. Using a transatlantic video connection, he welcomed the students into a castle in the Loire Valley where they practiced their French communication skills and had a lively discussion about French Culture.
This slideshow illustrates how Professor Caulkins uses simple tools to bring authentic voices into the classroom, provide students with opportunities to apply their skills, and bring course content to life with compelling and challenging cross-cultural experiences.
In this article Peggy Hager, Senior Lecturer in Norwegian in the UW-Madison Department of Scandinavian Studies, explains how and why she developed vodcasts for use in her third semester Norwegian classes.
Thinking about using clickers in your classroom? Wondering if peer discussion really helps students increase understanding? Then you’ll want to check out Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions published in Science on January 2, 2009.
Games and simulations offer the opportunity for students to learn
through meaningful activity. Join us on Thursday, Jan 29 at 2:30 pm in 259A Van Hise
for an introduction to using games in the language, literature and linguistics classroom.
Horizon Wimba Voice Tools is a suite of applications that allow instructors and students to record and send voice over the Internet.
The Voice Tool Suite will be free for instructors to use during the
current academic year (2008-2009). LSS will be providing online
accounts for L&S instructors who want to use it in their classes or
who simply want to experiment with voice tools.
On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. Several campus buildings, including Van Hise Hall, provided space where students, faculty and staff could gather and view inaugural events.
When Janet Caulkins selected Jacqueline Ollivier and Martin Beaudoin’s Grammaire Française (4th ed.) for French 311: Advanced Composition and Conversation, she knew it would be an excellent text for an intensive grammar review.
The attached document displays two types of key combinations often used when composing non-English documents in Windows.
The Microsoft Word key combinations are a combination of Ctrl-Alt and a letter. These combinations may not work in the rest of the Office Suite. You can use these key combinations when you have an English keyboard selected.
The Windows key combinations are a combination of an Alt key and a number. You may have to use the number pad on your keyboard to enter the number. These key combinations will work in most Windows applications.
