Isabel Borrás
Selected Courses, Seminars and Workshops
Graduate Courses
SPAN 696 - Designing FL Instruction for Web Delivery. SDSU, CA (Fall 1998)
This course introduces foreign language instructors and graduate students to the use of telecommunications technology for designing and delivering online pedagogical materials for instructor-led and distance courses. A primary focus of the class is on creating Web-based learning activities, lecture outlines, and academic papers. While gaining skill on instructional and web design principles, students will learn to create DHTML pages, practice a suite of JavaScript authoring programs (Half-Baked software), and learn the basics of the JavaScript programming language.
Span 780 is a course in production techniques of instructional media for FL teaching. The course provides participants with intensive hands-on practice in planning and producing basic multimedia units appropriate for FL instruction. The experience is grounded on instructional design constructivist principles, integrative multimedia development, and proficieny-oriented FL teaching/learning practices. Course activities include relevant readings, class discussions and presentations, practice with a CD-ROM tutorial, and the development of a basic computer-based FL learning module. One authoring tool Director 6.0. is used for the development of the modules.
An on-line course made of some six hundred textual and graphic files organized around six "nodes." The "Home" node provides the main entrance to the various paths of the course; the "Info" node features information about the instructor and the course content, objectives, and evaluation tools procedures; the "Schedule" node gives access to the topics and assignments treated in the course; the "Readings" node features a list of required and suggested readings for the course, various links to electronic books and articles, and an entrance to all the sites linked to the package; the "Projects" node provides access to the six Web projects developed by the participants in the course; and the "People" node contains information about the participants' professional background, teaching philosophy, and expectations about the instructional possibilities of the Internet.
Graduate Seminars
The Seminar in CALL and Research Methodology Series. SDSU, CA (Fall 97)
These series of seminars introduce FL graduate students to research methods, subjects of inquiry, and theories of research in education. Students work individually and collaboratively to design, plan, and compose a formal proposal for research intended to focus on a particular CALL environment, such as multimedia. This work is divided into four stages: an annotated bibliography of existing relevant research; a statement of the inquiry question, problem, or issue; a summary of the nature and types of quantitative research design; and a formal research project proposal. The research project is framed to address major questions about the relationship between technology, foreign language, and cognition. The format, scope, and topic of the project is decided through individual consultation with the instructor.
Technology Workshops Series
- School.Massachusetts, Vermont (Spring 1996)
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