Previous Symposium Schedule for 2009:

TEACHING LANGUAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Saturday, October 24, 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Moore Hall 153
University of Hawaii at Manoa

SCHEDULE: 8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-9:00 Overview - What Are 21st Century Skills? - Cherie Hayes-Gigante, UHM

9:00-10:30 Session A: Project Based Learning (presenters - Cherie Hayes-Gigante, UHM Online Learning Academy; José Gigante, Punahou School; Lynette Fujimori; Danile Kop, DOE; Melvina Kurashige, Mid-Pacific Institute
How can technology be incorporated to engage and motivate our students in hands-on,
meaningful projects? By the end of this workshop, participants will have written project
objectives, criteria, and rubrics that are aligned to the standards for world
languages and can be used with their classes.

Session B: 21st Century Skills (Participants choose one presentation)

* VoiceThread (presenter - Cindy Wong, Moanalua High School)
VoiceThread is a hosted site that is advertisement free. Teachers can post an audio,
video, or picture file and use it as a teaching tool. It can also be used for collaboration
among students. Anyone can join in, so you can even get feedback from the general
public. Come check out some of the cool things that are already there. Then, start
developing your own voicethread.

* Teaching Language with Comics (presenter - Nancy Wysard, Sacred Hearts Academy)
Utilizing comics can be a refreshing, creative & fun way to teach language. Your
students will love communicating their ideas while learning grammatical concepts,
which can be boring (to them of course!). In this presentation I will teach you how
you too can include Comic making in your language class. You will learn how to use
Comic Life and other comic-making websites. For the hands-on part , bring your flash
drive with 5 pictures of the most important things in your life and you will learn how to
present them the Comic way.
HANDOUT FROM NANCY WYSARD (.pdf file)

* Audacity (presenter - Satoru Shinagawa, Kapiolani Community College)
Audacity is a free cross-platform sound editor. It can record and edit sound files. For
language courses, sound files provide a handy tool for both teachers and students. Learn how to make them and start creating your own!

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Attendees switch Session A & B

As is tradition, the HALT Fall Symposium is a free event. No registration necessary. We hope you will join us!

The HALT Fall Symposium is also a perfect time to sign up for or renew your annual HALT membership ($5 - students; $15 - general; $100 - lifetime). Benefits include discounted registration rates for the HALT spring conference, inclusion on the HALT email listserv, and more!