Performance-related activities, such as acting out dialogues and producing scenes, have long been a way for Lisa Gasbarrone, Professor of French and Italian at Franklin & Marshall, to encourage her students to use modern language actively. Now with the help of technology, she has taken this to another level.
Professor Gasbarrone's students are required to videotape themselves using the modern language they are studying, and it only seemed natural to use technology to enhance their learning experience. With the help of QuickTime and iMovie, Professor Gasbarrone was able to digitize students' movies and post them into Blackboard, the College's course management system. This provided students with on-demand access not only to their own movie but also to their peers' movies, enabling them to access each other's work outside of class and then provide feedback the next time they met. The students can also meet with a Teaching Assistant, access their movie via the web, and work on grammar and phonetics.
Intrigued by the idea of 24/7, on-demand access, Professor Gasbarrone is currently experimenting with similar access to video on demand. This provides her with the ability to access a particular video from the web during class and easily navigate to a segment for discussion. "It enables me to interact with the materials in a way I couldn't have before." The students can simply access the films from anywhere on campus, at any time, rather than waiting to view the reserved copy available in the Media Center within ATS. Future projects for Professor Gasbarrone include a digital video archive comprised of interviews with native speakers of French on campus. The goal of this project is to obtain enough raw footage on a number of topics, including politics, culture, and study abroad, which can then be edited and applied to a variety of courses. |
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