CDH Instructional Technology project comes to fruition
By Joseph Vaughan
For quite some time, Nancy Ezer (Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) has been working with Ted Liu (CDH’s foreign languages instructional technology coordinator) to develop an online tool to teach Hebrew grammar. Nancy had been using a workbook for quite some time, and even had an electronic version of it, but it was trapped on old disks in a format that we could no longer use (beware the passing of technology!).
She submitted a project proposal to CDH in 2005, which included the possibility of outsourcing some of the work to a company. We decided to take advantage of the functionality available in Course Management systems in order to build the grammar tool. At the time, we were reviewing Sakai, but when it became clear that the CCLE would be based on Moodle, we decided to use it instead.
Nancy and Ted collaborated very closely, and Ted found ways to get the quiz tool to work with the many challenges that the Hebrew Workbook presented.
On December 5, Nancy and Ted talked about and demonstrated the quiz tool at a presentation in the CDH PC Lab. Shortly afterwards, our colleagues in OID picked up the item for their “tools for teaching” series. See http://tinyurl.com/3xao8x
