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>From: "Richard Laden" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: multimedia project
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:32:09 -0800

Helen Stapleton wrote, "I have a professor who wants to do a sort of multimedia
project where 
he posts images.  Each student is assigned and illustration in a 
story book, and then they must write a commentary on what they see 
and then attach a sound file with their commentary in spoken form. 
He would like for all the images to be seen along with the text of 
the commentary, and have all the images in order.  He would also like 
it if this could be added to the French Dept's website.  Right now he 
is doing it in PowerPoint, but wants a more "seamless" format.  Do 
any of you have any ideas??"


This is a perfect example of what can be done with LangLab. The instructor
creates a lesson for the course in which each item has an image (one can use
either a small image that pops up automatically or a larger image file that pops
up when the student clicks on a button) and a sound clip that is the student's
commentary for that image. The instructor would simply find and import the files
with the standard file-finding tool built into LangLab's lesson-creation module
(Admin). The instructor could also ask the students to provide written
commentary for the item, which could be displayed in the text window. The
instructor could also use the item to elicit oral and written responses from the
other students. A similar activity could use video clips instead of
illustrations. The pedagogical point is to have several mutually-reinforcing
stimuli and teach skills in combination.

    --Richard Laden
Director, E-LangLab, LLC
Berkeley, CA
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http://www.elanglab.com