okay bonsoir so just be John Daniel just
really prophet of the fall say York
school a hybrid beginning language
course applicable zoo or easy as 123 so
I’m currently teaching a hundred percent
online advanced french course and
because I get inspired by projects that
I’m currently doing and think about
other projects that I might be doing I
thought why don’t beginning language
students get an online experience and
how can we reach out to further students
whose time commitment may not allow them
to do a full face to face or online
class so to help me out with showing you
what I believe a combination part online
part face-to-face course might look like
I’ve asked three of my darling students
to come up and help me out today and
they are Sophia and Natalie and Jared so
part of the face to face interaction in
this hybrid course might have us telling
a story for example the story of luna la
luna la lucha although had I known that
the stubby squid had been talked about
tonight I might have changed that to
match lo’laan yo la lucha is headed to
the Monterey Bay Aquarium they’ve had
about an hour to two hours of their own
time during the week to look over the
story and practice the signs that I’ve
given them as hybrid students might do
so i’m gonna call on each of them and
ask them to kind of show me in their own
crazy way what they think is going on in
the spori Satan’s emotion hey Bravo if
they move a Jared Logan yo la lucha
nevah pas rester chez lui nope Nova
Peris tertiary Eva vite allah be three
yep if ABI talib EST de la cual ahem the
beta mounted a long for a long pole a
key VAR DB year we set in Piazza in PA
ver yep it’s an octopus poor plum purple
Camilla costume de miss you Danielle no
such a blurry we traced areas try
serious yes so this tracer use de la
Luna Bonjour yes could prepare / poovu
capricious pappu who there you go a
question no no no leave la pupusa Madame
civilian PA the entree tell if Reggie if
Reggie there you go i want to get em for
cheap civil play this season Jesse’s re
wallah sizzle sizzle Lapierre properly
we create Chinna papa entre sounds are
dude that’s me Lola know atleast elite
least in a pas de deux to avec lui voila
LLL not Appa Don aquarium in plur pond
on van over huh van earth can you do
that with your fingers that’s all right
it’s Vega number okay so that might be
the first part of the story section that
we do then we want to see are the
students capable of answering questions
about the story that they’re practicing
can they make
new information it might go something
like this Jared citta sandy via no CMD
no seikishi odorless mana dommage there
you go if a boy with a mother if I’m
over OSHA brief a Bowie form of the
leafy boughs Audrey alone on yo yo yo yo
a sha sha no se cual uno cien lutra yeah
honor tibia y Yankee ova we you know we
yawn stubby squid no yeah I’m here
tredia la pauvre a Kimiko serious i miss
you Danielle Erica Miko sayo la Commedia
Dell cooler ella pure la Ruche papa por
cry like yeah I like that answer in the
terrified we always cheap prices yeah a
year until if don’t a platter if you
tell if Larry plan telefutura gladly
aquarium pool aquarium Bravo so these
really proven that they worked in the
hybrid by looking on their computers
came back and started working with me
during the time that we had together
thank you guys for participating hey
take your yes see so there are some
of my hybrid students I imagine working
there two hours of free time going over
material that I prepare for them to
learn vocabulary how might they be doing
it Kevin I’ll play the video this
charming guy might be giving them sign
language to help them acquire new
vocabulary and remember it through
thank you Karen that’s good so when
we’re learning these signs it’s not
really to speak in a French sign
language it’s just using tactile methods
to help the vocabulary stay in their
heads yeah so they’ll be practicing this
on their own doing there two hours of
free time and then come into a more
interactive session will they be doing
more active
skits and drama to get the language
moving around but what kind of student
might want to participate in a hybrid
beginning language course students that
maybe are already taking a full time
course and students who like Matthew
understand that learning a second or
third language is brain food not only
does it help your memory grow now but it
staves off cognitive decline as you get
older now I don’t have to worry about
cognitive decline what other kinds of
students might be interested in taking a
hybrid beginning language learning class
those that are globally competent
citizens like Joseph who you’ll see
speaking later and Jared these boys are
minded in the fact that they are global
citizens they know that if they achieve
a measurable level of proficiency and a
language that they can connect 220
million new French speaking friends 500
new Spanish speaking 500 million new
Spanish speaking friends and many many
many new Chinese speaking friends
through a course like this another
student though might take the course
simply because Sid remembers that it’s
just fun it’s fun to learn something new
and it’s fun to get up and move around
out of your seat even when you’re not
playing pokemon go is it something a
kombucha is it as easy as 123 well the
time commitment I think would be not so
much for me because I’m planning on
building the video supports for my
French one classes anyway so I could
offer that to the hybrid course as well
the main resource would be the time for
the students who choose to participate
in something like a not for credit
course that they have to find times to
meet with outside of the regular school
day with me so our goal would be to
reach novice high level between a year
and a year and a half if they’re
students like the three you saw we get
there pretty solidly in a year and by
the time they’re at novice high level
they’re actually pretty useful in most
jobs that they might have that require
some knowledge of a second or third
language they can order a meal make a
purchase buy a ticket exchange
information it’d be a fantastic thing to
see a third language coming to our
students at
that level so my point is this is what
inspired me from my current project but
at else do you I’d also like for you
guys to think about what currently
surrounds you what are you noticing that
isn’t there that you can help make be
there and then make it happen thank you [Applause]