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

Sustainable Learning, Accessible Technologies, & Diverse Contexts

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Learning DLPT Korean Vocabulary Through Morphemes

Session Description
Korean is not only a continuously growing language in the United States but also a strategic language suggested by the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense encourages military intelligence agents to learn Korean by taking the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) since the importance of international security increased due to the armistice tension between North and South Korea. This Korean DLPT training course (https://leesooy.wixsite.com/dlpt-korean-vocab) is aiming to improve students’ reading and listening skills by expanding vocabulary.

To accommodate students’ needs for a flexible schedule as well as an effective learning process, the mini online course will reinforce effective learning while providing flexibility for various students. The purpose of this course is to help students become familiar with the high-frequency vocabulary needed for DLPT Korean by analyzing vocabulary structures.

As for the TCC session, these course details will be discussed; how to conduct vocabulary practice throughout real-life resources of newspapers, radio, television broadcasts; and topics of social phenomenons, economy, and politics. The strategy used in course development is the morpheme study based on Bloom’s taxonomy in a hierarchical model. While the course was created with the Wix platform, YouTube, Google Forms, and vocabulary map with MindMasters are major tools that enhance the learning process for students.

Presenter(s)
Soo Yeon Lee
Soo Yeon Lee, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Soo is a Korean language instructor in a private sector as well as a graduate student of the Learning Design & Technology master’s program at the University of Hawaii College of Education. As an instructor, she is interested in developing language courses using interactive technology for community and military-affiliated audience. The mini online course, as a final product for the Certificate of Online Learning and Teaching, focuses on vocabulary acquisition through morpheme maps using a mind map tool to help students visualize word relations and associations.
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Ke Ea o Ka ʻĀina (The Life of the Land)

Session Description
7th-grade students in Hawaiʻi are required to learn about Hawaiian History. For a majority of 7th-graders, their last experience with Hawaiian history was in the 4th grade. As new scholarship emerges that accesses Hawaiian language and English language resources that were not available just a few years ago, our understanding of the events that occurred and their effect of the myriad of people inhabiting these islands has changed. It is much more nuanced. There are many voices that were not included in the story being told. Students werenʻt asked to critically think about any bias that might be present in the sources of information shared with them. There are many teachers who teach 7th-grade Social Studies, particular those recently from the mainland, who may not be comfortable with the topic. There are also students who are home-schooled. This course is designed to be asynchronous and assist teachers in delivering content on Hawaiian history in a way that exposes students to multiple viewpoints and encourages them to critically think about historic events and their effects on our society. In this course, students will use inquiry to explain the mahele (land division) from the perspective of aliʻi (chiefs), hoa ʻāina (indigenous Hawaiian commoners who work the land), and foreign-born residents.
Presenter(s)
Keahe Davis
Keahe Davis, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA
Keahe Davis is the Education Director at the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He received his B.A. in European Studies from Loyola Marymount University and is a candidate for M.Ed. in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In addition to his work at the Judiciary History Center, Keahe is the Vice President of the Hawaiʻi Museums Association Board of Directors, a docent at ʻIolani Palace, ‘ōlapa hula dancer with Hālau Nā Wainohia, and outrigger canoe paddler with Kamehameha Canoe Club.
William Thompson
William Thompson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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E Ala Pono Program- How to navigate MySuccess to lead to student success!

Session Description
This presentation outlines the development of an online training course for instructional faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu with the purpose of teaching faculty about the E Ala Pono (EAP) Program. This program is a campus wide student success retention initiative which requires a cross-campus collaboration between faculty and service areas such as academic advising, Tutoring Center and personal counseling. Topics include classroom intervention strategies, learning how to use the MySuccess tool and how to create partnerships to support student success. In additional this presentation will share the educational learning theories incorporated and the challenges faced, and a reflection on the design process.
Presenter(s)
Keʻalohi Perry
Keʻalohi Perry, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA
Keʻalohi Perry is graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Certificate of Online Learning and Teaching in the College of Education. She also serves as a College Success Advisor for the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu Campus.
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Aquarium Educator Training: an Instructional Design Project

Session Description
The purpose of this instructional design project was to plan and develop an online instructional module for training volunteers regarding various marine biology topics at the Waikīkī Aquarium. The creation of a learning module to be completed by all appropriate volunteers provides consistency in content delivery, a higher level of accountability, a greater level of familiarity with pertinent information, as well as increased confidence with visitors. Waikīkī Aquarium Education Volunteers, known as Educators, are volunteers who specialize in the study of marine biology including ichthyology, invertebrate zoology, and so forth. Learning marine biology is an important part of providing a positive educational experience for Aquarium visitors. There was no formal online training program for Aquarium Educators, and educational technology serves to bridge this gap, helping learners who have grown up using technology to stay engaged and focused in challenging topics. The modules were created using Canvas, a learning management system, as well as a combination of tools including: Google Docs, Screencastify, and YouTube. A constructivist design approach combined with proven multimedia learning principles were integrated into the design.

This project may lead to further research in support of the effectiveness of online learning in the museum field when teaching specific content knowledge to volunteer educators.

Presenter(s)
Guerin Earhart
Guerin Earhart, UH Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Mr. Guerin Earhart is a graduate student in the Learning Design and Technology program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For his project, he developed an online course for training volunteers with marine biology at the Waikiki Aquarium. Mr. Earhart has a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, along with two Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Education. His research interests include designing, developing and implementing distance-learning opportunities in informal learning environments such as museums and aquariums.
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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E-Learning Course Prototype: Process Writing for English Language Learners

Session Description
E-learning courses provides cultural, intellectual, social, practical, and financial benefits for using technology and applications for learning. It moves from a teacher-centered lecture delivery of content towards student-centered learning of interactive called active learning or constructivism. This presentation will showcase an e-learning course prototype for scaffolding the engagement of English language learners to produce a writing process essay online in Canvas Infostructure’s Learning Management System (LMS) at: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1533123.

This prototype was created with the interest of potentially using it for teaching English at the university level as a foreign language to undergraduate Japanese students. The LMS consolidates online writing process software tools, with not only descriptions of the writing stage, but that also provides tools to accomplish each stage of Process Writing: Planning, Drafting Revising, and Editing.

Development of the course began with course learning outcomes and student learning objectives:

  1. Expose students to the writing process,
  2. Scaffold selection of appropriate writing strategies,
  3. Encourage E-learning skills in Canvas LMS and online websites.

These course outcomes aligned the student learning objectives and assessments. Personalized learning, visual communication, and Universal Design for Learning were considered in design and development of the course. To address these concerns learners are afforded multiple ways to show competency by using unique technology or methods to create exemplars, choice in control content and flexibility, multimedia and text-based content, and personalized conversations, and clear guidelines and rubrics for grading criteria and assessment.

Presenter(s)
Joseph Peters
Joseph Peters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Joseph was born and raised in Hawaii. He has a background in education, language learning, and instructional design. He has a Bachelors in Elementary Education, Masters in Second Language Studies: Language Teaching, and is in his last semester in the MA: Learning Teaching and Design Program at the University of Hawaii. He recently started a job as an English instructor in Nagoya, Japan. His interests include incorporating E-learning and technology for collegiate language learning.
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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