Fall 1999 Newsletter
Fall 1999 Newsletter
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- She also wrote "Politica," a short play about an Israeli couple
living in New York during the Gulf War; this play was performed and
videotaped by students and will later be digitized and annotated.
- More about Levana's projects: "Sarah Aharonson" is a true short
story of the heroine Sarah Ahronson, based on a book by Devorah Omer,
and "Hanna Senesh" is the true story of an Israeli heroine, poet and
paratrooper who volunteered to help the British fight the Nazis
during World War II.
Goals for these projects include:
(a) make the story accessible to Hebrew students;
(b) familiarize students with two poems of Hannah Senesh;
c) introduce historical and cultural elements of the period;
d) have students continue to develop listening and pronunciation
skills;
(e) have students continue to develop comprehension skills;
(f) familiarize students with some components of Hebrew syntax.
Annotations and built-in support materials include:
(b) historical and grammatical text annotations;
(c) a glossary;
(d) relevant grammatical exercises;
(e) video segments of the Kibbutz where Hanna lived before she
volunteered to join the British Army, as well as video segments of
the museum constructed in her honor;
(f) audio readings of the story at slow and normal speeds;
(g) the song, "Eli, Eli", with her lyrics, into software;
(h) one of her poems.
- Declaration of Independence
For her "Declaration of Independence" project, the text of the
Declaration of Independence of Israel was inserted in an xMediaEngine
template.
Annotations and built-in support materials include:
-short descriptions in English of relevant historical events;
-a glossary based on the vocabulary of the document;
-an audio reading of the document in Hebrew in a normal speed for
listening and comprehension skills;
-an audio reading of the entire text at a very slow speed for
improved spelling and pronunciation skills;
-pictures and video tape segments of relevant historical events;
-relevant Hebrew exercises.
Goals of this project include:
(a) acquaint students of all levels with the historical events that
led to the Declaration of the State of Israel;
(b) familiarize students with the principles stated in the
document;
(c) have students use this study to broaden their listening and
pronunciation skills;
(d) have students broaden their comprehension skills;
(e) have students gain a deeper understanding of Israeli culture and
history.
Catherine Ostrow
- Developed grammar lessons for first year French, using PowerPoint
software and spoken audio recordings.
Trinity projects:
Dario del Puppo
- Offered a course entitled "On the Nature of Texts" in Spring 1999,
dealing with the history of manuscript and book production from
antiquity to the present. Rather than write a term paper, students
created their own critical editions of a text. The scope and depth of
critical analysis reflected their learning curve, the limits of a one
semester course, and the availability of primary resources. Using
primarily "FrontPage" software, students created web pages with hyper
links using images and sound (if necessary) to create their own
abridged editions of a work. The aim was to have students act as
editors of texts they reconstructed for a given audience. In doing
so, they had to analyze closely the history of a text (and its most
immediate context, the book).
Francoise Weaver
- Wrote a Web-based vocabulary manual which covers topics in the
French daily press.
- She is also continuing to develop a web site designed for a spoken
French course.
Connecticut College projects:
Tekwah King & Maria Montzolis - (Maria is
now at Yale University)- Experimented with digitized audio in the
Connecticut College Language Lab. The audio chosen accompanies "A
Text for a Changing China" and will be provided to Connecticut
College Chinese students via the World Wide Web in RealMedia
format..