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| Title | BOLCA: Annotated Video and Memory Aid Sharing in Turkish, Arabic, and Russian |
| Body | From http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107560 One web application just launched by the Center for World Languages (CWL) at UCLA lets language instructors borrow teaching materials and strategies from their colleagues. Known as the Business Online Language and Culture Application, or BOLCA (Turkish for "aplenty"), the application for the first time uses web-based content management to create and share memory aids and annotated videos used in language courses. "It finally gives the language instructor the ability to construct their own exercises without the need of a technical person," explains Jessica Mentesoglu, an instructional technology specialist with the UCLA Library who has led the development of BOLCA and its pilot Turkish lessons. The talking e-flashcards and other tools that she invented for BOLCA, with help from her husband Kaya Mentesoglu's information technology group at the Institute, can be recycled, mutatis mutandis, for students of any language. (Russian is next on the list along with Arabic.) Browse BOLCA at http://bolca.international.ucla.edu/Browser.aspx . |
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| Inputdate | 2009-06-21 10:08:48 |
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