Transcript  Staff Development Session 23/01/10

LORO
(Language Open Resources Online):
a languages repository for DoL
Carmen Tomas on behalf of:
Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Annie Eardley,
Christine Pleines and Hélène Pulker
Region 05 Staff briefing 23 Jan 2009
• To create an online repository, based on the Language Box
• Created by the Faroes team in Southampton
• It will allow course teams, tutors and staff tutors in DoL easy
access to tutorial materials for all languages and levels.
Central teams to distribute materials to ALs easily.
• ALs to access materials for all languages and all levels.
• ALs to store their own materials (and share them with others if
they so wish).
• Staff tutors to access materials for staff development purposes.
• All users to share resources with the Language Box, a
languages community repository
(http://languagebox.eprints.org).
Some interesting results
When looking for teaching materials for my OU group, I…
use materials provided by the CT: 89%; use the internet: 73%;
create materials from scratch: 95%, use lang. textbooks: 81%,
use materials from other ALs: 54%
I modify what the OU provides to suit my group.
always: 18%, often: 79%, never: 3%
I store my teaching materials…
on paper: 1%, electronically: 30%, in both ways: 69%
I often share my teaching materials.
yes: 26%, no: 74%
Future developments
• short term goals vs. long term possibilities
Two main stages of
implementation
1. Tutorial materials provided by Course
teams are made available on LORO for
each course and can be downloaded by
ALs
2. ALs can upload and share their own
materials (if they want)
The tool and the ALs
• Accessing LORO and looking at resources
…at LORO (http://loro.eprints.org) but remember this is
work in progress!
• Discussion (views, experiences, long-term goals)
Good evening
everyone!
Accessing materials
on LORO
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Go to http://loro.eprints.org
Click on your course
Click on the “Resource” you are interested in
each Resource, e.g. L203Unit1Act2_Zimmersuche, contains the
documents related to one tutorial activity)
Preview the documents by hovering over them
If there are lots of docs. you will need to click on the arrows to the
left or right to scroll
Click on “download” (or “download this resource as a zip” on the
right-hand side)
Save the resource onto your computer
If necessary, unzip the zipped file (right click and “extract” or
“unzip”)
Upload the wbd or ppt files onto Elluminate
For discussion…
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Is LORO a good thing?
What’s your experience so far (if any)?
What’s LORO’s main advantage?
Where would you like it to go in the long
term?
Any further questions?
Contact [email protected]
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