24th Annual TCC | Online Conference | April 16-18, 2019

Sustainable Learning, Accessible Technologies, & Diverse Contexts

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Content-Based Learning through Students Multiple Disciplines

Session Description
In Korean college ESL classes, students attend with multiple purposes toward the target language. The students gather from multiple disciplines from engineering to fashion design and the English fluency level also varies among the students. At first, the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was utilized in order to span out the interests of the varied students. An interesting fact was observed from the students’ response to the movie. Each class had a session to provide feedback about the movie, and students response were different based on their major. Various responses led up naturally active participation and students immersed in the movie. A language is a tool (Essays, 2013), and it is important to use it rather than learning the structure of the target language. The differences in the feedback sparked the interest in the movie and help the students to focus on the content of the language (Kasper, 1997).
The purpose of the class is to teach language, however without the focus on content, it is easy to see students going to the rabbit hole once again; memorizing vocabulary, expressions, grammar, etc. The focus on content, but content coming from the students’ perspectives gives multiple interests to the students. This approach helps the diverse and broad class to focus on the class. In this presentation, the process of language learning through movie clips on YouTube will be shown along with what type of contributions students brought to the content-based instruction style of language learning. In addition, not only useful strategies to identify and maintain students’ interest but also multiple tools and resources to help students focus on the content will be introduced.
Presenter(s)
Ji-Young Seo
Ji-Young Seo, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

  • Assistant professor, Kookmin univ., S. Korea
  • Director of Global English(TOEIC), Kookmin univ.
  • International Affairs Officer, STEM (The Society for Teaching English through Media)
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Information Processing for the (R) generations

Session Description
Educational approaches developed throughout the years; from the Grammar Translation method over to the collaborative model. Each approach and method has considered carefully the generations of each period. What about the current generation? We do borrow the concept of Prensky’s (2001) digital natives, but the current generations are too complicated and unique to use such term at large. The generation who were born with digital gadgets and comfortable of using multiple platforms, plus a generation who were surrounded to play video games are the students that educators need to deal with. Thus, they are the (R)esearch generation, who can clearly find knowledge and information, but also capable to individualize the information into their own needs.

Having this in mind, it is important to observe how students learn the knowledge for a distinct subject. Although nowadays students are video game friendly, they apply this type of skill set into their everyday life. In this presentation, a pilot study with Star Wars series will be shown with two college ESL students. The data of what type of information and the process of how they approached the target language. Series of data will include from Star Wars original trilogy to theme related commercials and graphic novels.

Presenter(s)
Yun Joon 'Jason' Lee
Yun Joon ‘Jason’ Lee, Daegu National University of Education (S.Korea), Daegu, South Korea
Yun Joon ‘Jason’ Lee is currently an assistant professor in English education at Daegu National University of Education at Daegu (DNUE), South Korea. DNUE is a professional development university that specifically trains elementary pre-service teachers for four years. He teaches English conversation classes to all the sophomores in the university, in order to bring the national movement of TEE (Teaching English in English) to the next level.

Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University, focusing on second language development through video games, especially World of Warcraft. His research focus is mostly on media literacy, such as video games, movies, TV shows, YouTubes, graphic novels in teaching ESL.

Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Stop Spamming, Start Texting!

Session Description
Do you text with your family? Your friends? Your students? Educators and administrators are always seeking ways to improve their communication with students. Although email is a dominate form of communication and as such, supported as the main communication channel for many universities, it often remains less effective than desired (Straumsheim, 2016). Researchers are now suggesting an alternative avenue for communication, one that is more personal and more meaningful for our contemporary students, that of texting or messaging (Straumsheim, 2015). As educators, it is our charge to adapt, explore and innovate with new methods for engaging and reaching our students, especially for those students that are hard to reach. Including texting as an option for student communication gives new energy to the student/teacher relationship. This mini workshop will share the step by step process for setting up, and professionally using, your Google Voice number to engage and reach your students via texting.
Presenter(s)
Kirsten Meymaris
Kirsten Meymaris, Purdue University Global, School of General Education, virtual (Boulder, CO), USA
Kirsten K. Meymaris is a faculty member at Purdue University Global’s Mathematics Department with over 19 years of experience in online education. Kirsten has experience in a diversity of roles in online education including developing course content; managing and maintaining online course software; and direct facilitation of online courses. Kirsten has degrees in both mathematics and computer science with an emphasis in educational technology.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
Novice, Intermediate

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Professors as Thought Leader’s: Building Your Digital Footprint with Vlogging

Session Description
Educators are invaluable assets to institutions of higher learning. They play an important role in educating students that enroll in degree granting and certification programs. However, limiting the reach of such knowledge, wisdom, and talent to institutions of higher learning can be perceived as a social travesty. Educators have a grand opportunity to go beyond the walls (firewalls) of higher learning to build and establish a digital footprint as a respected thought leader entrepreneur. As an entrepreneurial vlogger, educators have an opportunity to realize and hone their professional brand by contributing valuable and unique content in their areas of expertise. Novice practitioners have dominated the vlogosphere, becoming highly successful by building Youtube channels, Patreon membership communities, Udemy classes, and much more. This presentation will provide an overview that encourages educators to build a thought leader brand with the possibility of becoming the world’s next Youtube sensation. It’s time for educators to break down the walls of higher education and contribute more respectable content to the vlogosphere aimed at shaping society and nurturing inquisitive minds in 2019. When educators build their digital footprint, all content can easily be shared with students in the online classroom to add value and inspire deeper learning. Once an educator’s thought leadership brand is shared with online learners, the educator becomes part of the students lifelong personal learning network.
Presenter(s)
Sean Doyle
Sean Doyle, Purdue University Global, FL, USA
Sean Doyle serves as a full-time faculty member in the School of Business and Information Technology. He is course lead for bachelor’s courses in strategy and policy, consumer behavior, and international marketing. Doyle began his academic career in 2001, teaching at New York University in the Department of Nutrition and facilitating courses in the culinary science lab. His experience includes teaching higher education business courses and serving as a professional development consultant for on-ground, blended, and online learning environments. Doyle also consults with organizations specializing in operations management, service delivery, marketing strategy, and organizational design. As a chef early in his career, he managed culinary operations for Aramark, Hyatt, Disney, and Sheraton. Additionally, he is a residential and commercial Realtor® in the state of Florida.
Glen Jenewein
Glen Jenewein, Purdue University Global, Battle Ground, WA, USA
Glen Jenewein is the director of undergraduate internships for the School of Business and Information Technology at Purdue Global. In his classes, he focuses on ways to use new technology to enhance the student learning experience. Glen has worked as a professor in the technology field for over 15 years, including as the director of distance learning at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He was also a full-time professor at Portland Community College, where he taught in the computer information systems program and served as the chair of the department. Before his academic career, he spent 12 years in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer and was instrumental in establishing communications from the South Pole, Antarctica to Paramus, New Jersey, for the National Science Foundation.
Noel Broman
Noel Broman, Purdue University Global, Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Noel Broman, PhD has been working in Information Technology for twenty three years, along with six years Instructional and Curriculum Design, fifteen years teaching Experience in Higher Education, ten years Project Management experience, and ten years as a Subject Matter Expert in Information Technology.

Dr. Broman has an extensive background in Network Management and Design, with research interests in Telecommuting in the 21st Century, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis, Effective Organizational Communication, Ethics in Information Technology, Information Systems Security and Control, Online Learning Management and Facilitation, Data Management and Analytics, and Cognitive Science and Educational Psychology.

Dr. Broman has a Doctorate in Information Technology Management, a Master of Science in Management Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Dr Broman is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Professional.

Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Enhancing Academic English (AE) For Broad Spectrum Communication Competencies in STEM Universities

Session Description
The Professor of Electrical Engineering teaches Communicative Competencies such as Project Management, team work, and interpersonal skills as part of the English Content of Mini-poster presentation class. The Language Facilitator
advises, leans on Situated Learning (Lave and Wenger), Group Dynamics (Tucker), Collaborative Principle (Grice) and “know-how” i.e. tacit knowledge (Polanyi).
Presenter(s)
Valerie Wilkinson
Valerie Wilkinson, Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Valerie A. Wilkinson received her B.A. and M.A in Classics at the University of Hawaii. She first went to Japan in 1980. She chose to get her doctorate in Comparative Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on Medieval Romance, Philosophy, and Allegorical Exegesis. Her rule was to study, to the extent possible, exactly what she chose. Although she was a Medievalist, she made the conscious decision to move into the field of Communication, where living systems and experiential learning are important. While at The Open University of Japan, she worked with distance education and wrote about Gregory Bateson’s “The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication.”

One line in Bateson’s Mind and Nature (7), “Break the pattern which connects the items of learning and you necessarily destroy all quality,” confirmed her teaching practice of engineering experiential learning for whole persons in whole systems. Putting her Classical and Medieval base together with a growing fascination with General Systems Theory has given her viable resources, to apply paradoxical wisdom from the ancients to the shifting scene in the STEM educational environment of Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University in Hamamatsu, Japan.

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20-Minute Session
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