Online educational tools for language teaching (Virtual Volunteer Placement)
Timeline
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September 15, 2020Experience start
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December 10, 2020Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Information technology Communications Product or service launch EducationSkills
project planning business servicesWould you like to benefit from the volunteer support of mature students at the University of Ottawa (Canada) in a Masters of Education course in Technologies, Languages and Education? Do you have a language-learning program for new Canadians or a program/project for second language learners? Are looking for help to identify or create great technological tools to enhance your language-learning program? Students can offer you 30 hours of virtual volunteer support between mid-September and early December 2020. A pair of students will provide 60 volunteer hours.
Community Service Learning (CSL) is an academic experiential learning program offered by the University of Ottawa. Students contribute to their community by participating in community service placements approved for their course and complete corresponding reflective assignments. You have the opportunity to tap into a pool of dedicated students to expand your organization's resources and capacity!
Learners
The deliverables for this offer are one or more downloaded technological tools with written instructions for use as an educational tool. An alternative deliverable could be an annotated resource list providing information on no-cost or low-cost relevant technological tools available on the internet with the coordinates for where to find these.
Project timeline
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September 15, 2020Experience start
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December 10, 2020Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
In this course, students will analyze the influence of social, political, cultural, material and technological elements on the use of digital technologies in language teaching and experiment with the necessary competences to use digital technologies in language teaching.
From mid-September to early December, the students work on-line a minimum of 30 virtual hours to assist language teachers and their organizations in identifying and/or developing on-line educational tools for language teaching. A pair of students will work a total of 60 hours. The work could include researching existing tools, adapting available tools or creating new tools. This offer may appeal to organizations with language learning programs for immigrants and or refugees or for second language learners.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Timeline
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September 15, 2020Experience start
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December 10, 2020Experience end