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Welcome to Digication
Scholars Conversations.
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I'm your host, Kelly Driscoll.
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In this episode, you'll hear part
two of my conversation with Matthew
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Street, Senior Lecturer in Spanish
at the University of Virginia.
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I wanted to talk a little bit, I know
we mentioned at the beginning of the
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conversation that you've been doing more
work around open educational resources as
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well, and I would love for you to share.
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You know, why that's something that's
important to you, how it, how you may
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be developing these things for your own
courses, or maybe even other faculty
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members that are within your program.
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I would love to learn more about
what you're doing in that area too.
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Yeah, so.
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Um, the Open Educational Resources
has this been a big emphasis for, for
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a while, but at UVA for a couple of
years now, there's been a big emphasis
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in some, some support in the term
of stipends and stuff to, to create
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you to create your own resources.
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And, you know, it makes a lot of sense
because the textbooks and the programs
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and curricula has grown gotten so
expensive, you know, when we were using
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like a mainstream publisher and they
were coming out with a book every two
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or three years and the book in the
online platform is over 300 dollars.
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I mean, that's, that's, that's
a hell of an amount of money
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to, to pay in addition to
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your, Super-high tuition.
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So for, from an accessibility standpoint,
it makes sense from the cost aspect and
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also from an equity standpoint for, um,
the coverage of different minority groups
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and, and, uh, equality aspects all around.
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And you're free to, to explain
things that, that, that maybe
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may not be presented in.
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That more nuanced terms that aren't
necessarily in the, the, the dictionaries,
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the Spanish dictionaries yet, but
are definitely in the, definitely in
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the, the main, the discourse around.
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And so there's some of the incentives
to create open educational resources.
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And we've been working to create,
it's, we kind of took a big undertaking
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to create open educational resources
for three different courses,
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which is a lot of information.
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So, you know, we're, I'm slowly working
on the one for accelerated beginning
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Spanish and some of my colleagues
like Kate Neff and, um, and, and.
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Esperanza Goriz, they're working
on developing one for Spanish 2010.
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And so, you know, over time,
we're going to start using these.
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I'm actually going to use a couple
of pages from the one that I'm
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developing and I'm developing it.
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It right into Canvas.
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So we're using things like H5P,
which is, do you know what H5P is?
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Right?
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Like an interactive, it's an interactive
sort of like, like the home, like a
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Duolingo sort of thing where you can
drag and drop, fill in the blank.
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You can speak in there.
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It's these little activities that link
to the grade book in the, in the LMS.
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So we're creating activities doing
the H5P activities and then creating
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our own content or adapting content
that always are is already out
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there from other creators of OER.
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And yeah, so, you know, the, the copyright
stuff is something I'm not well versed in.
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Um, but you know, we have the
permission to use certain things
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if it's a certain different.
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A certain copyright.
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Yeah, so we're still kind of
learning as we go with this.
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Um, yes.
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So, but what I'm creating, you know,
the whole focus of, of mine, like a
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portfolio is just, it's integrated one
to one with, with what I'm creating.
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It's like the students are
going to be, they're going
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to be putting this somewhere,
their work somewhere to show it.
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Yeah, so I'm definitely thinking
about
Load full transcript
mine through the lens of
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the, the work will be disseminated
or the create the, the open ended
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stuff will be done on an ePortfolio.
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Oh, I'm so excited to
see where that may go.
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And I'm also interested, you
mentioned earlier your use of
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some of the instruction areas.
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within Digication to kind of scaffold
the creation process for your students.
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Do you ever, um, link to or embed or
use that instruction area to provide
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resources like this in your teaching?
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So kind of using it as a tool to provide
resources or content to the students that
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then they could respond to within those?
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Kind of corresponding pages.
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So like, um, like some of the, like the
H5P activities and things like that.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Yeah.
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So I've tried to embed H5P on Digication
and I don't think it works yet.
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Okay.
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I don't, I don't think you can yet.
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Um, at least the last time I tried, you
could not embed it in, in Digication.
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May, maybe, maybe that's something
that, that, that's coming.
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Or maybe you can do it now.
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But we do provide our own
content for some activities.
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Yes, like for our open ended summative
activities, those are things that
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don't correspond with the textbook.
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We create them 100%.
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The concept map activity created 100%.
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The monologue prompts, those are created.
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You know, the reflection prompts and, and
some, and then with the first iteration of
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the Portfolio that we used, uh, We created
all of the open ended projects there too.
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They were not, um, because the
book that we were using at the
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time was not a project-based book.
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We're using a program now
called Contraseña – by Lingro
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Learning - and it is project based.
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So we adapt some of their projects
and put them on Digication, and they
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know that we're doing that, and the
students can respond to those activities.
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Multimodal ways on the, on the Portfolio.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Yeah.
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What, what does that look like?
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Are they kind of text prompts or their
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videos that they watch?
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A bit of everything, right?
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So there's text, the main, the main
driver is text for instructions
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for sure, but there could be,
there could be video examples.
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Like I'm thinking of the conversation
prompts for the Spanish, um,
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the summer Spanish course.
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Yeah.
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So it's, you know, me
doing a conversation.
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Um, this shows what the
ideal one would look like.
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And it also shows, you know, maybe
it's a tutorial linked, you know, I've
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made tons of tutorials for Digication.
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So it could be, here's a quick
tutorial on how to whatever.
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So it could be embedded YouTube videos.
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It could be if they need to see
particular guidelines or rubrics,
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it could be either in, I love how
Digication has, where you can put like
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a little, tiny little window of the.
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The file.
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Mm-Hmm.
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. So it could be something
like that or a hyperlink, you
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know, that links out Mm-Hmm.
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to another, like a, a
another PDF or Word file.
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So we do aloo...
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of a variety of those at, at some.
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It would be really cool to have an option
to do some H5P stuff within Digication.
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Yeah.
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I have to look into that.
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Yeah.
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And it, it may exist now.
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I know I tried it, um, uh, maybe,
um, last summer, not this summer.
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But the one before that, yeah.
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And it wasn't, it wasn't working
then, which is, it's okay.
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Yeah.
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We are just always really fascinated
and interested in, you know, other
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kinds of technologies that, um,
you know, the people are using our
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platform are using too, in ways
that they can become integrated.
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So I'm glad that that got mentioned.
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So I'll have to, um, share
that with my team and, and see
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what might be possible there.
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Um, So thank you so much also for
just kind of sharing that because I, I
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think in many ways, there's, you know,
passionate educators like yourself that
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have gotten, you know, really engaged
with the ways that this technology
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can be used within their courses.
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So not only as.
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A place for the students to
be able to kind of make their
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learning visible and see their
growth and development over time.
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Um, but really, as this kind of teaching
tool that creates a kind of bridge
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from what you're offering to them.
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in person in the classroom and
something that they can kind of interact
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with within their own time as well.
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So it's kind of serving as this
place for them to be able to to learn
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from you and also respond to that.
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Um, And then get feedback from you along
the way in a way that I think is, is,
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you know, different than what a lot of
learning management systems are offering,
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just because they're organized around
the course specifically, and this is
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kind of organized around the individual.
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So you can kind of serve out these things.
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Are you putting them into a template
that they're using throughout the course?
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Or do they just kind of go from scratch?
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Yeah.
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So I, I provide the students with a
template for their Spanish portfolios as
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well as their unprofessional portfolios.
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However.
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Um, one of the, one of the guys that
was on the team, that's also been
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using portfolios for a long time here.
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So, um, he's in the French department.
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He's also, he's also, um, he's also
a lecturer or, or teaching professor.
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His name is Spiros Spiridon.
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Have you, have you ever heard of him?
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No, I have not spoken
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to him.
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So,
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yeah, so he.
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He, he does very creative things
with portfolio and he, he piloted a
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professional portfolio sort of thing
where the students could create their own.
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Like he just, he just told them you use
whatever source site that you want to do.
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And some students used Digication,
some students use Wix, you know,
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some students use whatever.
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And so that was interesting.
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But since Since my class is not, it's
mainly like first year students or second
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year students, and then there's also
other sections going at the same time.
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It's good for us to have
like a Digication template.
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Yeah.
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Kind of streamline things.
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And are there multiple
sections of your course too?
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There's multiple sections of my
course, and then there's sections
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that other lecturers teach as well.
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And, and, you know, in the,
the, the different level of,
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Digication buy in from, you know,
varies from lecturer to lecturer.
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So you got to kind of give it to
them on a platter in some ways, you
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know, cause it's just such a valuable
tool for the students, you know,
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it's like, that's one of the things
that I've seen that we're teaching.
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We have to remind ourselves that
we're teaching college students,
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not high school students.
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And the big thing about the Portfolio
is the Ownership and the autonomy that
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comes with it, even if it's not explicitly
stated that the students don't explicitly
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know that they own this work, you can
tell that they get that by the end.
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And that's something that makes them
more, more responsible and active learners
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when they're When it's their work that
they're sharing with the professor,
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it's not, it's not something that I own.
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They're giving me
permission to look at it.
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And so that sort of switch is, I think,
a big deciding or differentiating factor
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between like teaching high schoolers
versus teaching at the university level.
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Yeah.
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And you can tell when you look at the
You know, pages and projects that they
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put together that they're incredibly
proud of the work that they've done.
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And there's a great number of
students that have opted to
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share those Portfolios publicly.
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Um, where people can go in and, and see
this incredible progress that they've
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made and really listen to the student.
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View their reflections and, and
get to know them and why this
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course was, you know, impactful
and where they hope to take this,
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you know, language in the future.
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Um, so it's always exciting to see, you
know, when they do understand that kind
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of ownership, you know, how openly they
would like to, to be able to, to share it.
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And very often I find, you
know, we see many, many examples
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of those students that are.
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Creating these more kind of crafted,
professional oriented portfolios
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that they want to share outside.
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But more and more students are wanting to
really share, you know, this was something
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that, you know, may not be as polished
as something that I'd be developing for
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my career, but it's really providing
evidence of how much I was able to evolve
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and how much I was able to learn over
really a relatively short amount of time.
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And, and I agree.
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And I, um, this was years ago, but when
I did the university of Virginia study
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abroad in Costa Rica, I had the students
create Portfolios for that because it's
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like, you're documenting this any way
it's going on Instagram and Facebook.
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You're going to sit down with your
grandma and show her all these pictures.
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Why not have this learning tool at the
same time where you're also is a place
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where you can dump your pictures and
stuff, but also you can tell a story
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about your evolution of your journey
in this other country for six weeks.
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It's yeah.
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And I, I agree.
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I think the students that have
really seen the, the effects
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of the professional portfolio.
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Just really take it to the next level.
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They really kind of see themselves
branching out as these critical thinkers
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and they identify the ways in which their
thinking has evolved and, and how not
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just one class, but the totality of their
learning has contributed and engendered
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this kind of new curiosity to, to, to want
to, to want to put their best foot forward
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and show that they're their own person.
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portfolio is a great tool for that.
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And I love to see even, you know, in some
of the beginning stages, how they're,
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you know, really tying in what they're
learning in your course to other elements
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of who they are and, you know, what may
be their core area of study, if it's
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not foreign language and how they're
kind of making those connections from
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your course to other kinds of learning
experiences that they have had or that
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they're planning for at the same time.
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Um, so thank you for sharing that.
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And, um, I wanted to.
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Kind of, um, circle back to some of
the points you made earlier about,
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um, for our listeners to hear why you
think some of this active learning and
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project based learning is so critical
for students in Higher Ed, um, as they're
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preparing for futures beyond college.
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Yeah, well that, that,
that is a great question.
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So, you know, I shared this with my
students that I heard, um, on a news
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show the last semester that several
countries have installed government
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positions like for, to deal with
loneliness in their countries.
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Like, like there's like the Czar of
Loneliness for, for a couple of countries.
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And so, um, So the, the, the active
feature of being able to get out of
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your comfort zone and make these, these
personal connections in this space is.
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is something that we need to
be actively focusing on, right?
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It seems like, oh, that's a no
brainer, but no, you actually do need
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to encourage students to talk to the
person next to them, because if not,
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they're, most of them are not going to.
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So I think, I think that,
I think that's important.
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And I also think in kind of
sharing the rationale with students
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about how important it is to
be able to talk about concepts.
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In an elevated way is part of developing
this critical thinking aspect as well.
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When, you know, I remind my students
that your students at the university
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of Virginia, you should be able
to stand up and tell me about the
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present progressive right now.
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And, and, and it doesn't
have to be all right.
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You can stumble over your words, but
these are things you should be able to do.
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So we're going to work on
practicing those things.
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So I think giving them opportunities to.
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To kind of express their learning as
they're kind of working toward mastery
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helps them to be able to teach each
other in the active learning spaces.
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And when they're sitting across from
each other, it's easy to, to, for me
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to ask for help, it's easier to ask
for help and offer to help others.
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And when the students, the students that
have the most success are the ones that
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say, I was really impressed with the fact
that I was able to teach and help others.
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And that really helped me.
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And I think that makes people.
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Really active in their own learning.
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And that's what you have to do.
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You have to always be doing the
next thing instead of waiting
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for the next instruction.
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Right.
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And so I think some of this emphasis on
creating with the language, getting out of
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your comfort zone, interacting, offering
to help people, asking for help when
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needed, are, are very important aspects
that could help in all realms of life.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And kind of.
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Building off of that point, you know,
how do you see this as
something
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that may contribute to, you know,
this kind of understanding of each
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other and, and sharing their stories?
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You mentioned kind of asking for help
or, um, offering help may contribute to,
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you know, a deeper desire to understand.
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People from other cultures, even if you
may not yet speak the language, you know,
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getting being comfortable kind of seeking
things out from people that that are may
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not be like you, but may be able to, or
you may not initially think are like you,
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but finding that, kind of common ground.
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Well, I think students, students,
they, they often, yeah, they have to be
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reminded of this, but they almost every
student has interacted with someone
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that doesn't speak English very well.
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And so reminding the students that
that person engaged you in conversation
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and while, while you understood them.
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So now you're that person.
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Right.
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That's you now, right?
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And so when they kind of see it in that
way, I think it enables them to, to, to
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understand that, Hey, you know, at the
end of the day, even if I say all of the
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wrong things, it doesn't really matter.
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It's just, I'm, I'm trying and,
you know, continue, continue to
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try, I guess, in linguistics,
it's called your affective filter.
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You know, how self conscious you
are to say certain things, you know,
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that you're not that good at yet.
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Um, but, you know, students work
towards that, but yeah, I, I, I'm just
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a huge fan of just students, act...
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Students engaging with other
students in a collaborative way.
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I feel like that has
promoted the most success.
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And, you know, bringing it back to
the Portfolio and the Portfolio also
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contributes to this, even outside
of the classroom, you know, for,
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for the, for I always go back to
the concept map activity or students
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getting started on the final projects.
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If I don't know, or maybe I've been
dragging my feet or,
you know, maybe I've
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been partying too much, or maybe this
could maybe have too much stuff going on.
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I just couldn't get to it.
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If I, I know I can go log on to, and look
at, see what Kelly's done so far and get
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an idea of, okay, so this is the standard.
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So let me see what if I can get right.
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Or this is some, she has
some things like this.
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Oh, that's a good idea.
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You know?
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So I think even outside of the class, the
virtual community that's provided by the.
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It's not something you're
going to get on Canvas.
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Like, I just did a whole master's program
on Canvas at the University of Virginia.
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And every time they would ask us to go
back and comment on something someone
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else said, it took 30 minutes to find it.
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You know, it's like, you don't
have that issue with Digication.
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It's like, I know exactly where
it is, what I'm looking for.
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Yeah, yeah, I know that's a
little all over the place, but
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no, but I, I think it's a good point
because you know, when you are in this
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kind of setting, creating that community
and level of comfort with one another
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to kind of break down the barriers
of, um, You know, feeling, you know,
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feeling uncomfortable, but being able to
engage with other people that are also
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in that kind of similar uncomfortable
space, you know, maybe at different
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levels, um, you know, it's something
that, you know, it, it can be scary and
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sometimes people have to kind of bravely.
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Seek out what expectations are.
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And I imagine that, you know, once
they start looking to see what
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other people in the class are doing,
that they're naturally kind of
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connecting with some of those people
when they're in the course, too.
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Or maybe continually going back to
look at some of the same students,
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kind of, work because they've seen
it as an exemplar and something that
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they want to, you know, a level that
they would like to be able to reach.
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Um, and I do think that, you know,
because it's oriented around the
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individual, it's easier for students
to be able to, to find each other.
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And get inspired by one another.
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Um, you know, even within a learning
management system, if you're able to
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kind of dig down into an assignment and
see that it's something that someone
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submitted, it's not connected to a
body of work that, that they've done.
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So you may be able to access an individual
document, but you wouldn't be able
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to kind of go through and click and
browse and learn about that person and
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see other things that they've done.
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And, you know, they kind of become
these launch points to learning
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other aspects of who the individuals
are that are that are in their
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course, I think, in a different way.
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So I, maybe I also spoke about it in
a roundabout way, but I completely
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understand what you're saying, and it's
an intentional part of what we created.
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Right?
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Um, you know, when we were teaching,
we wanted that kind of, um,
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motivation that happens when you can
see the success of other students.
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You know, it creates a, it lights a fire
under you and helps you kind of have a
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vision for what you might grow into also.
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Yeah,
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I agree.
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Yeah.
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So, um, I know we're getting close
to the end of our time today.
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Um, but I did want to just kind
of touch quickly on, so we were
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talking a little bit about students
being able to, you know, share
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their stories with one another.
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And I was curious if you've.
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experienced students sharing some things
that maybe you hadn't anticipated and
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if, you know, how other students in
the course may have responded, um.
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You know, you touched a little bit on
students kind of maybe feeling some
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more empathy towards each other because
they were finding themselves in, in
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similar kinds of places, but do you have
something like that, that you might share?
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So there's always students that, that
take assignments to the next level, right?
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That, that, and so like, we're talking
of exceptional examples and the
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professional portfolio is, is one of
those where I give them a pretty basic
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template, you know, and encourage them
to, to definitely make it their own
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again, as their professional template.
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And so students have taken, take
a few students over the couple of
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years that I've done this, have
taken this to another level, right?
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So they've added other
pages and just read.
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Information in a more efficient and
concise way that I've then, then
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adapted that into the template, right?
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Cause these are just exceptional ideas.
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Students also surprised me with the
concept map activities, you know, like I
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give them some examples and most students
either follow those sorts of examples,
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but you know, students will take the
final project to the next, to the next
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level, or with topics that, I never
really thought about before, you know,
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I give them a bunch of suggested topics.
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I remember one very vividly a couple
of semesters ago, a student, a student
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did a project on what happens to the
clothes that don't sell in the world.
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Like where do these clothes go?
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Apparently they go someplace like in
Chile or Columbia or something like that.
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There's just like this huge kind of
mountain of just brand new clothes.
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Yeah.
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And so I was like, wow, this is just
such a creative, a creative topic.
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I haven't had very many situations
where students do any, any sort of
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things that, you know, maybe share
something too personal or something
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like that on a portfolio that, um.
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You know, but students, students
regularly, regularly comment that their
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portfolios, looking at other people's
work on the Portfolio was a main, a
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main source of to gather information?
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Sure.
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But also to know where they,
how they need it to perform.
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So it kind of makes it like this, you
have to put your best foot forward
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because all these other students are too.
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And, and you know, if you're not right,
if you get a grade, if you get a C and,
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you know, I often tell students, if
they ask like, why did I score so low?
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I'm like, well, why don't you go look at
X, Y, and Z's portfolios and you can see.
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You can see where, and I'll, I
always let students resubmit.
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That's something that I always do.
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Like if I, if you're going to engage more
with the material, I'll change your grade.
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah, go do it.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, it's good for students
to look at other students work, but
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also it kind of engenders this kind of
competition in the class and yeah, and
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students just bond because, you know,
they know they got to get through it.
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Yeah.
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Wonderful.
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Well, Matthew, thank you again
so much for joining me today.
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It was wonderful to have this opportunity
to speak to you and I'm very excited to
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be able to share your, your stories and
experience with, with our listeners.
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Thank you so much, Kelly.
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It's been an honor to, to chat with you.
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I'm very excited.
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So thanks.
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Absolutely.
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Take good care.
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Alright.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Coming up next, we'll be chatting
with Kate Sonka, Executive
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Director of TeachAccess.
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Here is a quick preview.
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Everybody should know a little bit.
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Um, so one of the phrases that
we like to use a lot is we are
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about breadth more than depth.
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Um, and you, you kind of hinted
at this in a few different ways.
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Um, but this idea that we're really
trying to get a lot of people
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to know at least a little bit.
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Um, of course that doesn't
mean that it will take care of
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all the accessibility needs.