The October 6 deadline has passed. We are no longer accepting registrations.
TED-Ed lessons of the webinar sessions are available below.
Description
Designed for in-service online language teachers, this course, offered in Fall 2019, focuses on selecting and adapting materials for online language learning and teaching. Successful completion of this course will earn a digital badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners will be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications.
Registration is FREE.
LAST DAY TO REGISTER for access to the live webinar series is OCTOBER 6, 2019. Please note that a screencast of these webinar sessions will be recorded and made available as an open educational resource in TED-Ed (see below).
Webinar Dates
Oct 8 | Oct 15 | Oct 22 | Oct 29 | Nov 5*
Tuesdays, 10:00 am-noon (Hawaii Standard Time), 1:00-3:00 pm (Pacific Daylight Time), 2:00-4:00 pm (Mountain Daylight Time), 3:00-5:00 pm (Central Daylight Time), 4:00-6:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
* The last session (November 5) will take place after Daylight Savings Time ends (November 3). We will keep all mainland times the same as listed above and just shift Hawaii time to 11:00 am-1:00 pm.
Session Topics
OCTOBER 8
Working with Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Presented by Billy Meinke
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Adapting and scaffolding online materials for different proficiency levels
Presented by Leslie Baldwin
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
OCTOBER 15
Selecting and adapting online materials for the interpretive mode of communication
Presented by Jesse Gleason
Southern Connecticut State University
Selecting and adapting online materials for the interpersonal mode of communication
Presented by Bobby Hobgood
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
OCTOBER 22
Selecting and adapting online materials for the presentational mode of communication
Presented by Ana Oskoz
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Selecting and adapting online materials for the teaching of culture
Presented by Herman Hall
North Carolina Virtual Public School
OCTOBER 29
Helping learners select and adapt online materials to enable self-directed learning
Presented by Kathryn Murphy-Judy
Virginia Commonwealth University
Copyrights and Creative Commons licensing
Presented by Dan Soneson
University of Minnesota
NOVEMBER 5 *
Lesson 9 (78 min.): Best practices in selecting and adapting materials for online language learning and teaching (panel)
Panel presenters:
- Katja Anderson (University of Maryland University College)
- Douglas Canfield (University of Tennessee)
- Yasuko Rallings (Wake Forest University)
- Tina Wang-Fulford (North Carolina Virtual Public School)
Lesson 10 (39 min.): Summary review by the series facilitator as discussant (presentation slides)
Discussant: Sarah Boutin (North Carolina Virtual Public School)
Products
Successful completion of this course will earn a digital badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners will be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications. To earn the badge, registrants must meet the badge criteria (see below)
Badge criteria
Digital Badge and CEU Credit Criteria (2019 Cohort)
Participants who meet the criteria listed below can earn a digital badge and a CEU credit.
Digital Badge
The Materials S&A badge certifies that the badge recipient:
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Learned about materials selection and adaptation in online language courses;
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Attended at least four (out of five) live webinars;
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Participated substantively and collegially in discussions and activities during live webinars;
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Posted responses to discussion prompts in all TED-Ed lessons;
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Completed a 3-2-1 Reflection for each webinar session.
Note: See the Q&A section below for instructions on how to complete your required badge tasks.
CEU Credit
Participants who meet all the criteria listed under “Digital Badge” above can be eligible to earn continuing education unit (CEU) credit. In order to earn the CEU credit, one requirement is to fulfill a minimum of 10 contact hours during the class, which means participants have to attend all five webinar sessions (10 hrs) and join discussions and activities during the webinars. Please note each participant is allowed to miss only one session. If you need to miss a whole session or even part of a session, you will be asked to watch the recorded footage of the missed webinar (available in TED-Ed lessons) and complete a Webinar Summary Report.
If you are from the North Carolina Virtual Public School, you will automatically be considered for CEU credit. If you are from a school OTHER than North Carolina Virtual Public School and you wish to earn CEU credit, please contact Stephen Tschudi at sfleming (at) hawaii dot edu and provide the name, title, and contact info (phone and/or email) of the supervisor who will be responsible for approving/awarding your professional development credit.
Completion Due Date: November 11, 2019.
Q&A
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Zoom Webinars
TED-Ed Lessons (following live webinars)
Final Project: 3-2-1 Reflection
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Other OLP Resources
Check out materials from our previous Online Language Pedagogy webinar series:
2017 Assessment in Online Language Courses