Professor Paula Ogg Presents at Florida Foreign Language Association Conference
Professor Paula Ogg presented three papers at the Florida Foreign Language Association Conference this Fall.
Literature Circles
Would you like to explore a reading comprehension technique that engages students in language, culture, and connection? Do you know how to facilitate group work for communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity? Have you considered literature circles? Explore this instructional strategy for small group student-centred reading and discussion from the original work of Daniel (1994) to a Web 2.0 version from Herrera and Kidwell (2018) grounded in the choice theory of Glasser (1988) and the stages of small group development of Tuckman (1977).
Padlet
Would you like to explore a digital tool that works any where, any time, any device, any file type, any language? Do you know how to use, share, and embed visual boards for communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity? Have you considered Padlet for podcasting, discussing, blogging, journalling and collaborative storytelling. Explore this technology application for web-based education and flipped classroom for foreign language learning and beyond such as rubrics, portfolios, book club, songs, videos, images, drawing, websites, files, storyboards, icebreakers, schedules, maps, notetaking, poster presentations and fairs, polls, multiple choice questions, peer review, debate, forms, sign up sheet, scrapbook, virtual field trip, Kanban, randomizer, social media, create with AI, and more.
The Teacher Researcher
Would you like to explore educational research methods to enhance the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching and learning (Boyer, 1990)? Do you know how you can be a teacher researcher in the foreign language classroom? Have you considered action research (Mills, 2017). Explore educational research questions, educational research methods (Gay, Mills, Airasian, 2012), and creative data collection, analysis, and dissemination methods. Through graffiti walk brainstorming, engage in discussion of cutting edge case scenarios like 1) outdoor language adventures or expeditions, 2) arts-based language projects, 3) collaborative inquiry circles, 4) community or virtual language exchanges, and 5) storytelling language contests.
