Sessions

Teacher and Student Perceptions After Going Online

In response to Covid-19, an online course was created and taught in the 2020 spring semester at Sojo University. Activities were all completed individually, and many were auto-graded. This presentation looks at the student perceptions of what was learned and the usefulness of the technology, as well as teacher reflections of the semester. Recommendations are given for how to incorporate these tools into distance or face-to-face classrooms.

H5P Tasks for Communicative Language Practice

H5P is a plugin for Moodle and other websites that enables teachers to create interactive content including slideshows, interactive videos, games, branching scenarios, quizzes, and much more. In this workshop attendees will first be introduced to a range of H5P content as they were designed to facilitate a communicative English course. Applications and limitations of H5P to enhance existing classroom activities such as information-gaps and dictations will be demonstrated, as will a handful of entirely new language learning tasks made possible through H5P. Attendees will have the chance to build content in a dedicated Moodle course.