Yes you can: Spanish online

Dr. Derek Petrey, Associate Professor, Sinclair Community College

Why am I here?

•in 2008 we startedto design an online Spanish course andwe now have an entire year of Spanish online

Why are you here?•can I do Spanish?•can I do foreign languages?•why can’t I just use Rosetta Stone?•¿dónde está el café?•don’t you need to have human beings toteach languages?

Portrait of the educator as a former Luddite

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Achieving the proper mindset for web development•Top 45 to Top 100 to Top This!•e-Redesign•online teacher training•ANGEL•what do I want students to know? to feel?

Rethinking curriculum and assessment•ACTFL - the five C’s(Communication, Culture, Connections, Comparisons, Communities)

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Team approach to web design•collaboration•accountability•support•web designers with a true appreciation for teaching the humanities•faculty with a true appreciation for the technology

Engaging online teaching & learning

•discussion forums•structure vs. freedom•e-text selection•revolutionarystudent-faculty interface technology!

Faculty excellence and best (online) practices•voice chats•calling students the 1st week (and the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th…)•¡Ayúdame! discussion forum•using the book more not less•error correction•achievement as a key to success

Surprises, pleasant and nasty

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Success rates in Spanish 102

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Students speak:I absolutely loved taking this class online

because I did not feel pressured to cram as much information as possible into my brain! The 2 weeks per chapter allowed me to study vocabulary at a "few minutes every day" kind of pace. And I think that is the best advice or recommendation I can give to students taking this course. Figure out what study method works best for you and take ten-twenty minutes each day to do a quick test on yourself. Repetition is key!

More students speak:…. This is a very comprehensive course

already, and I think if it offered more options I wouldn't know where to begin…. This is a great class. I wish I would have been prepared for how much time I need to spend on it, and I regret not being able to devote more time to it.

I learned that people in Hispanic cultures have the same basic concerns that everyone else does.

Keep doing everything because every little thing helps to teach me and other students.

How teaching online made me a better F2F teacherDeadlines =

respectWeb enhancementsYouTubeBetter use of the

eBook in classRethinking Honors

projects onlineConnecting to

students

How being a Luddite made me a better online instructorPhone – a – friend!Rabid paranoia

about student misconduct

Fighting the right battles about terminology and standardization

Closer involvement with adjuncts

Exciting new opportunities for growth and character formationChanges in minimum

class size for F2FNEXOS moves into its

3rd edition Fall 2012Quarter to semester

conversionStatewide initiatives

to increase higher ed. ROI

ANGEL ascends into the heavens in 2014

Thank yous, thank yous, thank yousTracy Jayne, Sherry McAndrews, Nancy

ThibeaultJulie Hatton, John Weaver, Tom MartinKathy Rowell, Linda SchockYolanda Burgos-Olinger, Lesley Graves, Keba

Hitzeman, Bobby Rubin, Connie Zornes-Padovani

our long-suffering students!All cartoons are © Jerry von Amerongen,

Ballard Street

A quick tourA tour of

Chapter 7 of NEXOS

A tour of Chapter 7 in ANGEL