8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center
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This free, on-campus conference includes several sessions of potential interest to language instructors. Here are just a few of the relevant offerings:
What Works for Today's Second Language Learners: Helping Students Build Roadmaps for Proficiency with the BOSSA Self-Assessment Project
This presentation presents a new tool for self-assessment, the Basic Outcomes Student Self-Assessment (BOSSA). The tool empowers students to create a personal roadmap for language learning that connects realistic proficiency expectations with course goals throughout the learning sequence. As they complete the low-stakes BOSSA protocol (which includes can-do statements aligned with proficiency targets in a series of language tasks throughout the semester), students specify their strengths and challenges, and come up with strategies to support language learning that work for them. Data analyses show that students make changes in their language-learning practices in response to the protocol, which includes regular practice with self-assessment using the components in the BOSSA toolkit. Attendees will learn how to adapt this tool (designed specifically for use across languages and levels) for their circumstances through the use of the standardized assessment design, accessible technology, and an articulated rubric.
Presenters:
- Gabriela Sweet, PACE Sustainability Coordinator, Language Center
- Sara Mack, Spanish 1004 Level Coordinator, Spanish and Portuguese
This session is included in the Afternoon Clinic and Paper Presentations.
Today's Learners: (Co)creating meaning in community
The presenters will demonstrate how students have engaged with their own surroundings by examining local public art and by increasing their knowledge of the University community.
Follow novice and intermediate language learners' step-by-step exploration and learn how this process culminated in digital projects they produced in independent groups as a final project.
Participants will gain an understanding of how art, technology and culture can be used to create student led digital stories. Throughout this process students collaborate to create their own meaning, reach consensus and work as a team, develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Their media literacy and cultural competency are enhanced as they transfer classroom concepts to real world situations while expanding their own language abilities.
These projects culminate in a digital story in one case and a digital video blog in the other.
Presenters:
- Angela Carlson-Lombardi, Spanish 1003 Level Coordinator, Spanish and Portuguese
- Frances Matos-Schultz, Spanish 1022 Level Coordinator, Spanish and Portuguese
This session is included in the Afternoon Clinic and Paper Presentations.
Drop-in Moodle Clinic
Staff from Information Technology, the Center for Educational Innovation, the University Libraries, and the Disability Resource Center will be on hand to help you set up your Moodle course sites, activities and resources; help you plan how to teach with Moodle; and assist you in leveraging tools such as Lynda.com and course reserves. Bring your syllabus and course materials if you have specific questions, or just stop by to get the conversation started.
Presenters:
- Susan McKinnell, Office of Information Technology
- Lauren Marsh, Office of Information Technology
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