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Students are expected to attend the class, to read the required materials, and to participate in the discussions and presentations. Such information makes a welcome contribution to classroom dialogue and discussion. Article Presentation & Report Working in pairs, students will make a classroom presentation of an article selected from the course readings. At the time of the presentation students will handle a word processed summary of the article they are presenting. At the top of their summaries, students should include their names, and the reference of the reported journal in APA style. Web-Site Evaluation & Report Working in pairs, students will report their evaluation of three FL web sites which used interactive web-based activities. Evaluation of Practice with the "Half-Baked" Authoring Programs Students will create five types of exercises (multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword and gap-fill) to prove their mastery of the Half-Baked authoring applications. Evaluation of Practice with JavaScript Tutorial Students will accomplished a number of tasks to demonstrate their knowledge of the JavaScripts practiced during their working sessions with the tutorial. Final Project Proposal The final project proposal will help the students organize their ideas and get peer's and instructor's feedback. The proposal should describe the project's content and resources. It will be submitted electronically Final Project Along with the practice exercises and the class presentations, each student will create a final project that will consist of an opinion paper, a FL course page, and a FL teaching unit. Students should have their project proposals ready for discussion with the instructor on the individual meetings that will be held on November 12th. Students are encouraged to receive and provide feedback to each other's projects. a) Opinion Paper (20% of the project grade) Each student will write a 15-20 page long paper. It should take the form of an opinion paper. For example, based on a thorough literature review, one might compare and contrast the assets and limitations of the use of communication technologies in lower-division language courses. The paper should be formatted for WWW display (see templates for paper and student's portfolio) and structured to include the following:
Papers may address issues from one of the following areas:
b) FL Course Web Page (15% of the project grade) Each student will develop a course web site including five required pages (Instructor, Overview, Syllabus, Calendar, and Resources) and some optional features (e.g. student Web pages and e-mail and chat tools). Students may refer to the World Lecture Hall for good examples of courses web pages.
c) FL Teaching Unit (5% of the project grade) A FL teaching unit featuring at least four JavaScript-based exercises. The unit should be formatively evaluated in a "real" class. Students may refer to the JS-Powered Online FL Web Sites for good examples of JavaScript-based exercises.
Grading PERCENTAGES
A Outstanding achievement; available only for the highest accomplishment A- Excellent performance; clearly exceeds course requirements B+ High achievement; clearly and substantially meets course requirements and criteria B Praiseworthy performance; definitely above average B- Acceptable performance in a graduate course; meets most course requirements C+ Average; awarded for satisfactory performance; marginal performance in a graduate course
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