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

Sustainable Learning, Accessible Technologies, & Diverse Contexts

20-Minute LTEC Student Session

Information Literacy & The Freshman English Composition Course: Embedding an Online Library Research Skills Mini-Course for First-Year College Undergraduates

Session Description
Many incoming freshman students at UH Hilo have limited exposure to information literacy skills. These students may be overwhelmed with their first-year studies and need extra help beyond the classroom. As a result, there is a strong need to provide students with the library research skills they will need to be successful in college.

Under a continuing partnership between the UHH Library and English Department, a design for a 4-week mini-course of library instruction is proposed using Canvas LMS. Embedded within students’ first year composition course and supporting the required research paper, this mini-course consists of 4-modules of online content structured around weekly synchronous online class sessions with a librarian for demonstration of resources and class activities via Zoom video conferencing. Course content is focused on the access and evaluation of online resources including strategies for searching, collecting and integrating scholarly content into writing assignments.

Presenter(s)
Brian Bays
Brian Bays, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hilo, Hawaiʻi, USA
Brian Bays is a graduate student in the Learning Design and Technology Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After earning a M.L.S. from Indiana University in 1999, he has worked for the past 20 years for academic and public libraries. He currently serves as Collection Development Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. His interests have taken him from library technical services to library instruction for undergraduate students.
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Understanding and Utilizing Stress

Session Description
According to a recent study, Hawaiʻi ranked last when it came to teacher salary and support. Also, a quick Google search will get you many resources about demoralization, depression, and demands for better conditions. As teachers, we all know that our students deserve our best, but sometimes our best is hard to come by when we ourselves are barely staying afloat. Dealing with and capitalizing on stress, therefore, can be a great thing for educators and students.

The goal of this course is to provide learners with knowledge and skills in managing and utilizing the stress that can come with teaching. As one moves through the modules, they will learn about the positive and negative effects of stress as well as the techniques, tools, studies, and strategies that can be applied to deal with stress and perhaps avoid teacher burnout. There will also be information shared about different ways to support individual and institutional stress. The course will be taught in a mostly asynchronous format, with some required synchronous online sessions.

This presentation describes the instructional design process in the creation of the course. It will discuss course rationale, project management, and reflection. Course standards, objectives, content, and assessment will also be shared.

Presenter(s)
Winona Farias
Winona Farias, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA
Session Type
20-Minute LTEC Student Session
Audience
All Audiences

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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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