On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:58 -0800, Kirby Urner wrote: > In my Classroom of Tomorrow, the teacher has random access to a > gazillion > video shorts in the archive, and during Q&A might pull up just the > right > ones to sustain the dialog. It's not a matter of the teacher losing > control > to "A/V" (e.g. half- to full-hour documentaries). I just screen a > quick > animation of a fetch instruction: bits on the address bus trigger RAM > to > dump some content onto the bus, which get loaded into a register on > the CPU > (25 seconds play time).
We're working on something like that here for language teaching. We've got a big archive of "authentic language materials" (digital audio and video media), annotated (semi-)automatically with information that lets language teacher call up segments that are relevant for their lessons -- say, suppose someone wants a real example of a second conjugation verb used in the pluperfect in a conversation between two characters of equal social status in an Albanian sitcom. We're not imagining it as a real-time system yet (teachers would collect the digital media segments and assemble them into a powerpoint presentation before class), but there's no reason the archives couldn't be searchable on-line like that someday. -- Rob Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages San Diego State University _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
