ILAT update

[Jan Tucker]

Phil, there is an online course for Cherokee I and II that is free at http://cherokee.org right now. Anyone can sign up for it. I'm taking Cherokee I now online. I go to class Monday and Wednesday at night and Ed Fields teaches us in a Shockwave or Flash video cast with a chat and slides and live question answer ability. He writes on the slides as he explains and stops to answer questions. 

What I'm making is a resource course to support this class with quizzes, links to the lessons and other materials to support the Cherokee I live course. I hope to be able to collaborate with those offering the live course as soon as I have perfected the support course. I'm letting students in now to give me feedback about what they'd like for study aids. Many want quizzes, and study materials, so I just downloaded Hotpototoes quiz maker and am putting up vocabulary flash cards, drop and drag vocabulary, and type in the gap sentences. I also made some matching pictures to vocabulary and am just experimenting with sound bites and other resources. 

I'd like to invite teachers in soon to develop their own resource courses to accompany live courses.  I worry about getting ahead of my ability to help them get started, so I'm setting up a model first using Cherokee I.  Then I'll invite others to come in and use my site and see if it has potential for helping them teach their language. 

Jan


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Subject: Re: [ILAT] ILAT update


Thanks Jan for your willingness to share your work.  I think your online
course in Cherokee may be a first of this kind here in the US.

Phil

Quoting Jan Tucker <jtucker at STARBAND.NET>:

> Phil, I stared out on the H-AmIndian listserver and moved to ILAT 
> about a year ago, and am hooked now on the great information on 
> language revitalization. I'm working hard to find a way to do 
> something of value for language learners and teachers, and am 
> inspired by all that is posted here. Also impressed with what is 
> being done by those on this list. I can just take so much bad news 
> about language loss. This listserver has balanced my view of language 
> revitalization efforts and I've really enjoyed reading from the 
> varied voices, promoting language learning.
>
> I'm still working on my website between my day job and will have 
> something to share soon. I had to move to a new server, download a 
> new version of free courseware, and I'm testing it and revising a 
> demo Language Learning Resource Course for Cherokee. I'll share soon. 
> My goal is to get people started using online courseware for 
> supplementing other kinds of language learning and have a model for 
> how they can develop a course. They should be able to put up a course 
> that they completely control at minimum cost on their own website or 
> server. This is what I've done. Just have to perfect it before I show 
> it.
>
> Jan
>
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