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Influence of Video/Digital Technology on Teaching English to Deaf and

Hard-of-Hearing Students Kathleen Eilers-crandall, Ph.D.

TESOL 2007Video and Digital Media - Panel

3/23/07 08:30 -11:15 AM Sheraton Seattle/Metropolitan A Room

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Who’s Online?

http://www.pewinternet.org/trends.asp#demographics Pew Internet & American Life Project (accessed 3/20/07)

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10 Most Common Activities

http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_1.11.07.htm Pew Internet & American Life Project (accessed 3/20/07)

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10 Least Common Activities

http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_1.11.07.htm Pew Internet & American Life Project (accessed 3/20/07)

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Online courses at colleges

• Making the Grade (2006) – responses from administrators in over 2,200 colleges and universities (http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/survey06.asp)

– nearly 3.2 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2005 term,

– colleges report offering an average of 10.6 percent of their course sections online in 2005, up from 6.5 percent in 2003,

– online students are more likely to be studying at associate's institutions than are their face-to-face contemporaries, and

– only 4.6% of chief academic officers think that there are no significant barriers to widespread adoption of online learning.

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Blended (hybrid) courses at college

• Blending In (2006) – responses from administrators in over 1,000 colleges and universities (http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/blended06.asp)

– a slightly larger percent of blended program offerings than online programs across all disciplines, but offerings of blended courses decreased slightly between 2003 and 2005,

– only 38 percent of respondents agreed that “Blended courses hold more promise than online courses,” and

– only at Baccalaureate institutions, where online education has the smallest penetration rate, are a slightly greater or an equal percent of blended courses offered.

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Online/hybrid learning: grades K-12

• K–12 Online Learning (2006) – responses from public school administrators (http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/K-12_06.asp)

– almost two-thirds of the responding public school districts are offering one or more online/hybrid courses,

– depend on multiple online learning providers, including postsecondary institutions, independent vendors and state virtual schools, and providing their own online courses,

– small rural school districts use online learning to provide students with course choices and basic courses that are not otherwise available.

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Digital/Video and Deaf Students Learning

• Like general population, estimate that online use is greatest for personal social areas

• Popular uses:– Text messaging– Photo sharing

- Videos with sign language

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Text Messaging

T-Mobile Sidekick 3

Blackberry 8700C

Motorola Q1

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Photo Sharing

• KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery - www.kodakgallery.com/

• Flickr Photo Sharing - http://www.flickr.com/• My Photo Album -

http://www.myphotoalbum.com/features-photo-sharing.shtml

Most include instant messaging and/or RSS feeds to automatically inform your friends of changes.

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Videos

• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/ (most inaccessible to deaf people - include sound without captions)

• YouTube viewers can post a video or a text response

• Much easier to make a video with sign language and/or speech than with captions.

• Process for captioning a videocast http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/podcaption.htm (accessed 3/20/06)

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Video Computing

Gwyneth Paltrow on Oscar night 2007,

“… with YouTube everyone of us is a cinematographer.”

How to make a video for YouTube, www.t3.co.uk/news/247/daily_columns/how_to_make_a_video_for_youtube

(accessed 3/19/06)

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Captioned and Signed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0QFR4RoYm8 (accessed 03/20/07)http://www.deafread.com (referenced in above)

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ASL Vlog – occasional subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKGWJ5hF5A&mode=related&search= (accessed 03/20/07)

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ASL Vlog – Subtitles & ASL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKGWJ5hF5A&mode=related&search= (accessed 03/20/07)

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Deaf Blogs

http://deaf-blogs.com/ (accessed 3/20/07)

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Deaf Business Blog/Vlog

http://grantlairdjr.com/wp/2006/08/19/deaf-related-business-%20blog/ (accessed 03/20/07)

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Controversy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ODJsBKlao (accessed 03/20/07)

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Films as teaching tools

• DVDs – captioned

• Lets students connect actions and pictures with words

• Examples from (www.rit.edu/~kecncp) – October Sky– Never Cry Wolf

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Films as teaching tools

• First run movies

• Are captioned viewings in your area?

• Info on www.fandango.com

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Films

http://jdconrad.blogspot.com/ (accessed 2/15/07)

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Podcasts / Vidcasts

• Most are sound only

• Or, video with sound

• Small screen on players – difficult to read text and/or signs if not on computer screen

• Few with text or sign

• Education podcast network - (majority are mp3 sound files or video with sound files) (http://www.epnweb.org)

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Video Technology Questions

• Is the technology easy to use?• Is the technology familiar to teacher, to

students? • Is it aesthetically pleasing? • Does it fit with the content?• Will it motivate the students to learn? • Does it meet the objectives of the lesson?• Is it cost effective?• Can this material be taught a better way?

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Presenter – Contact Information

Kathleen Eilers-crandall, Ph.D.Department of English

National Technical Institute for the DeafRochester Institute of Technology Lyndon Baines Johnson Building - 2264

Phone: (585) 475-5111

Fax: (585) 475-6500

Email: kecncp@rit.edu

Web: http://www.rit.edu/~kecncp (presentation available here)