Summer Institute 1999

1999 Summer Institute for Distance Learning

Tools and Courses Scott Despain College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Today's Plan: Demonstrate and discuss the various instructional technologies you have been learning and using, and the ways in which we are applying them to foreign language instruction here at NC State.

COURSES

Intermediate Spanish with Streaming RealAudio

Louise Salstad Bulk of course distributed through the web
Hispanic folktales
Grammar
Culture exercises are also distributed via the web

FLS101i - Beginning Spanish via the Internet

Lecture Delivery - Streaming RealVideo

Electronic Classroom - FLTC
BasicServer Plus
RealPlayer G2

Listening Skills - LAN or CD delivery, Radio Nacional Española, etc.
Writing Skills - WWW activities and workbook
Oral Communication Skills - Paired Activities
Score Reporting - Señor Despain's Grade Generator

TOOLS

Instructional Technologies - Foreign Languages Technology Center

CLASSNET - Monitor/Control student workstations or broadcast teacher workstation to students.
DIVACE - Tandberg's new distribution system for delivery of video/audio files in a lab environment. More info and more info.

Macromedia's Authorware

Overview
Features

rich media support
authoring productivity
web authoring and delivery
student tracking
course management

Course Use (LAN and CD)

Digital Lab Manual
Digital Geography Module
Latin Placement Test
Software Front End

RealNetworks' RealPlayer® G2

Overview
Features
Course Use

RealNetworks' RealProducer® G2

Overview
Features
Course Use

Netscape Navigator

Overview
Features
Course Use

Netscape Composer

Overview
Features
Course Use
Training - workshops and more workshops

Netscape Messenger

Overview
Features

Course Use

Other Tools

SCOLA - Live news feeds and cultural broadcasts from around the world, per a published schedule
AOL Instant Messenger
NetForum

CONCLUSION and QUESTIONS