Emerging
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Join
Education's DigitalStream
6th Annual Conference, March
25-27, 2004
Using
WIMBA to Design an Online Language Course (45 min.)
Thursday, March 25th
3:30 p.m.
UC Living Room
Fernando
Rubio, University
of Utah
Olga Bailess, University of Utah
Abstract:
This presentation shows a work in progress to design an online course
for first-year Spanish. The course uses Blackboard, a course management
system, as its main platform. Since the main challenge of online language
courses is how to provide students with opportunities to practice their
speaking and listening skills, the authors will present a practical way
of solving the problem using the Wimba software, a voice enabling system
that provides a simple solution to the problem.
The presentation will include a quick introduction to Blackboard and how
we are using it to host the course, and a more detailed illustration of
how Wimba can be used to design different types of oral activities. Participants
will have the opportunity to see a variety of practical examples.
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