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>> Vance Stevens: We're live!
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Hello, everybody. Somehow my video disappeared.
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It's there, but that's my - it's just in avatar format.
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Plus does that every now and then.
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OK, well anyway, this is Vance Stevens in Abu Dhabi..., no, sorry, in Al Ain.
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I'm living in Al Ain now, I forget where I'm living.
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Today is the 8th of December.
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They move me around so much, you know.
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And, anyway, it's the 8th of December 2013.
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We're talking with a good friend of mine, Phil Hubbard,
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from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
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And he's been doing some really neat stuff in Cal.
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I've known him for a long time in the Cal Intersection TESOL.
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>> Phil Hubbard: Since we were kids.
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>> Stevens: We were, it was like 20 years ago
[Hubbard laughs]
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>> Hubbard: reaching 30 [check]
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>> Stevens: Someone has a -- someone needs to have a headset on.
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[missed words] is muted.
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Errh not sure: it could be someone listening to the stream.
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Yeah, if you're listening to the stream -- OK.
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The echo has gone away [check]
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Someone has corrected it, that's good.
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All right, well, OK. Someone has announced in the stream chat that they're listening to it there.
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So that's good, everything seems to be working.
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We're doing a Hangout on Air, as we often do.
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We're streaming it on webheadsinaction.org/live
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At the moment we have six people in the hangout,
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there's room for four more.
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So if anyone is listening on the stream and would like to join us, they can.
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And right now we've got Claire Siskin and Jim Buckingham, Rita Zeinstejer and
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let's see, and also Rob, Rob is there, and me, Vance Stevens. Rob Permanus, is that correct?
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Correct me if I'm wrong. Permanus, Permanus - how do you pronounce your name?
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>> Hubbard: You have to unmute him chuckles
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>> Stevens: it's Perhamus -- Perhamus, OK, Good, I'll never forget that again, all right.
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Thank you very much, Rob. Rob is an occasional participant in our hangouts.
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Well Phil, take it away and anybody who wants to --
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by the way, you're all muted by default when you come into the hangout.
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You can unmute yourself.
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If you're going to unmute yourself and talk, please mute yourself again,
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so we don't get keyboard noises and things like that.
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And there's Elizabeth Anne, also shown up from Grenoble in France.
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And Halima Ozimova in Tashkent has also joined us, I see.
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>> Hubbard [check] I think we're great, well, hello, everybody.
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It's Good Morning for me, a little early in the morning,
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but the sun is beginning to show through the back window here.
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Thank you all for being here from all over the world.
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What I wanted to do today is talk about largely an idea and a project that I've been working on
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for the last couple of years, very sporadically.
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Unfortunately I get interrupted easily, as I'm sure all of you do,
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so what started out as a -- what I hoped was going to be a much more robust collection of materials
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has turned out to be a little more anemic
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but I still think that I have enough here that I can demonstrate the idea
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and especially share my thoughts about how to go
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about dealing with this relatively new notion of curation,
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although in some ways, maybe it's just a label for an old notion that we've had for quite some time.
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So, let me give you a little bit of the background,
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like several of the things I've worked on in the last few years,
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like learner training.
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This is something that has emerged out of my classroom experience
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with an advanced listening and vocabulary class,
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and I see Vance is showing some of the slides now.
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The class is for graduate students at Stanford
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and it's a really nice sandbox for playing with ideas,
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because these are -- well, they're all in graduate school already,
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they're, for the most part, in the high 90's onwards to the 100s in the TOEFL iBT
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so they really are advanced in that sense.
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And many of them are taking the course because we require them to do it.
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So they're kind of a captive audience
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but it's also a small course: we have a maximum 14 students in it
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and it allows me to not only play around with ideas, but get a chance to talk to the students afterward,
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not usually with formal research, but just informally as part of our normal tutorial sessions
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and find out what they thought about them and what I can do to make them work a little better.
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So, the problem that I noticed - an important part of this class
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is that students do independent projects
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and those independent projects are supposed to be for a minimum of three hours a week.
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Sounds like I am getting some echo in the background, but I will keep pushing through here..
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Uhh.. those projects are for three hours a week
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and they are responsible for doing the selection of the material
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with my help and with my guidance both before and after.
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And over the years, I have discovered that they are actually not really good at that.
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What they are good at is finding material that is interesting to them.
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But, they are not necessarily good at finding material that helps them.
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They discover that on their own a little bit down the road
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and often it doesn't become clear to both of us
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because I have a very slow learning curve and quickly forget things.
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So, I get to the end of the class and then I go
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"Oh, I should have provided them with a little more guidance.".
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So, about 2 years ago, I started doing this
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and it came as a juxtaposition of a couple of things.
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First of all, just my own general interest in the development of autonomy had been growing
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and as I have gone out and collected materials that I would just use in class,
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it was pretty clear to me that there is a huge amount of really interesting materials out there.
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And people have been collecting these for a while
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and teachers have been building lessons out of them
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-- sometimes pretty sophisiticated lessons --
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but I needed something that students could work with on their own.
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And so, I wanted to find a way to help them without just my advice
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as to how to look for materials, to actually start collecting materials
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in ways that would still give them quite a bit of freedom of choice
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but would also make it better as a language learning experience.
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As part of this course, they are also required to build vocabulary.
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They have to identify at least 35 new words and phrases every week,
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from the material they are using.
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So, this is a bit of the backdrop.
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In 2011, I came across a book, kind of independently.
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It was just recommended to me, for some reason, by Amazon:
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you know how that works.
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And the book was called 'Curation Nation'
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and there is, I think, a slide there perhaps somewhere, it's like the sixth slide.
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There's a -- if you want to pop that up.
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If not, it's just a picture of the book.
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But it's a book it's a book by Steven Rosembaum.
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>>Stevens: I will. Could I --
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I am supposed to be able to mute mikes, as the owner of the chat,
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but I am unable to mute Halima's for some reason
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and that is where the echo is coming from.
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So, Halima, could I ask if you could click on the "mute" on your mike when not speaking?
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And if you want to unmute, you can always speak to us.
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That is where our echo is coming from.
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And okay, I will do what Phil has asked me to do and pull up 'Curation Nation'.
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>> Hubbard: laughs Alright, thanks.
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Anyway, this is not a book about education by any stretch,
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but it did come up with this notion that we have so much material on-line now
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and we are having so much difficulty in sorting out
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what the good stuff is from the chaff, for any reason, for news and so on.
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Now we have all these feeds:
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You know, if you -- those of you on Twitter or any of the other networks that have lots of feeds,
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you get the -- even Google+ -- you get feeds from your friends,
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you get feeds from people that whoever runs the site thinks might be interesting to you
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and you are just overwhelmed with an enormous amount of material.
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Some of it's pretty cool.
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Much of it is stuff you wouldn't find on your own and that's great.
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But when you've got the specific target of trying to improve your language
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-- and of course, the group that I work with doesn't actually do a whole lot with social media
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because they don't have time as full-time graduate students --
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I am lucky if I can squeeze a few hours out of them to do the work
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that they need for the course that they are taking for credit from me.
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So, this notion of curation is based roughly
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on the idea of what people do in museums and in art galleries.
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You get an expert, somebody who actually knows a fair amount about a particular area
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and you have that expert create collections, add value to them in one way or another,
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and then you release those collections for the consumer - whoever it might be --
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to have a look at and to interact with.
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So, the key difference between this and what a lot of people are doing with this material
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-- you may have heard concepts like "digital curation",
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which can just mean curating digital materials
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but often means that computers are doing the job for you.
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Google news is a really good example of that:
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I find a lot of interesting stuff in there, I can even ask it to find particular categories,
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but it's still being selected without any human intervention.
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You compare that with something like Huffington Post,
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which is material that's been brought in by people who are
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-- in some cases, they're producing it, but in other cases they are aggregating it
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and trying to make sense out of it for the rest of us.
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So, a key point here is that curation isn't the same as aggregation, or listing, or tagging.
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It's okay to use that term for that but that's not the way I am using it.
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There is a really nice quote in my slide there that -- I think it's maybe --
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two more slides down, Vance. One more. There you go. Past curation.. yeah, that one.
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So this is - it's maybe a little mean, but I think it's right on point
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that when you just get collections of things, you've just got collections of things
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and its not necessarily anything other than "these are things that I liked"
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or "these are things that I think you will like".
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So, I prefer the next slide: you want to go to it, Vance?
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This is more the way I see curation,
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where you collect material, you organize it,
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there is even the potentially a path, well, there is certainly a path
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through the individual material groups,
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and then mayble even a path through the groups,
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although at the moment I haven't done that last point.
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So, this is, you know, kind of captures the idea that I want to talk about today.
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Curation, importantly, is not the same as creation or recreation
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or adaptation or sampling, or synthesizing.
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It's taking the material and adding something to it, maybe just a commentary,
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maybe just collecting it into some logical framework or logical sequence.
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So, when I took that idea, which I was getting through the Curation Nation book,
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and thought about it with respect to the material that I was using,
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I decided to experiment with that and come up
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with some collections of materials from -- as you probably know from the title here and also the PDF,
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if you've had a look at it -- comes from TED Talks.
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And in a moment I will talk about why I think TED talks is so good for that
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but at the base level, these were very popular with my students.
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What the students were doing more--
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they were having trouble coming up with good ones.
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They would always pick what was interesting
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and then often come back to me and say
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"Well, this was interesting, but I had trouble understanding it because my --
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the accent of the speaker was not easy for me to understand."
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or "I had trouble understanding it because -- it was interesting
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because I didn't know anything about it and I didn't have the background
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so there was a whole bunch of new vocabulary."
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So t could be interesting for all sorts of reasons,
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but it wasn't interesting for the right reasons,
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for what we think is good for independent language learning.
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Again, this doesn't mean that all of those collections, with the help of a teacher,
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couldn't have been very valuable in a classroom
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and especially getting to the content for connecting to discussions.
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But that's not the same thing as letting students work on their own.
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So, I do want to emphasis that.
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My perspective here, at least initially,
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is getting students to be able to do these things outside of class
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and then just come back and report on them
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rather than having something we do in class
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or that everybody does the same homework assignment on.
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Alright, so that's the set-up for what I believe curation should be,
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or at least can be, within this framework.
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So, I think what I'll do here is pause for a second and see if anybody has questions.
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and bring it up by trying to look at some of the chat pieces here
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Uh -- [he hums]
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[reading:] "What is meant by sign..."
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OK, so some of these chats are to each other about the chats.
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So I got to go to the other window
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Uh -- anybody -- anybody have any questions here?
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If not, I'll continue on.
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>> Stevens: I have to admit I have trouble following all the chats.
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There's also a back channel here, with Google: some people could be in that one.
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I never see that one until I get off of --
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>> Hubbard: Well, the last chat -- the last piece on the group chat said:
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"Yeah, we agree with you, Phil."
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So: that's great.
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I'll stop [check] there and if everybody agrees with me, I don't really need to --
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>> Stevens: you need go no further
>> Hubbard: [overlapping, inaudible]
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No [Hubbard and Stevens laugh]
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>> Hubbard: OK, well, so, again, that's kind of the background,
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this idea that I needed to start collecting things.
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So, I'm still kind of almost two years in the past, now,
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telling you the story of how I got to where I got here.
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So I picked TED talks and I started going into TED talks.
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I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to collect them
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but I knew there were some of the ones that I liked
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and I also knew some characteristics that I thought were useful for the students.
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I thought it was important to collect them into themes.
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You know, we've known for a long time that if you have related content,
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that it kind of feeds -- the materials feed one another
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and the students get probably a better and a richer experience,
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they get more natural repetition and key vocabulary
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than if you have people just kind of jumping out piecemeal
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with unconnected bits of material.
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I -- in the 1980's I was forced to teach a course with a book I don't remember the name of that.
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I do remember the author, but I'm not going to mention it on air.
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It was a reading textbook and the reading textbook had really interesting little chapters,
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at least most of them were interesting to me,
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but, you know, one chapter would be on the Olympics
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and the next chapter would be on sea-horses.
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And it's that kind of jumping around -- we typically don't do that with textbooks anymore.
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And yet when we turn students loose, a lot of times, that's what they decide to do.
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So again, even though I had been giving them guidance, saying:
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"Well, collect several bits of, you know, pieces of material, videos or podcasts
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that are related to one another in some way,"
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they wouldn't follow that advice, because it hadn't been done for them.
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They were still kind of chasing around, looking for the spots that just seemed interesting.
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OK. I think what I'll do is tell you what the
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-- at a kind of the abstract level, what I came up with
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about what the curator's role should be.
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And again, this is specifically for this target audience,
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but I think it can be tweaked and extended to other ones.
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The first thing you have to do is collect the stuff: you want digital materials,
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you want to organize them in some way:
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mine are organized systematically, but you could do
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-- you know, you could take news stories and do them chronologically.
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You need to sequence them and this is where a lot of collections fall short.
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They're just -- they're either randomly sequenced
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or they're not sequenced at all.
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And I think it is possible, as, you know, as the resident [check] expert, the teacher,
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to be able to say:
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"Here's a way to move so that the earlier ones might be a little bit easier to follow
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and the later ones are better understood if you've done the earlier ones."
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The fourth point there that
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-- on the slide that Vance has --
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is the hardest part of all of this,
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and that is trying to get this material levelled in some way.
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Wilfried Decoo in 2010 wrote a book, it's at the end
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-- the reference is at the end of the slideshow here --
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on systemization.
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And it was kind of a return to the idea that
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even if you're using authentic material,
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and especially if you're trying to create course material yourself,
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that you need to have a kind of natural development of that material
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from, you know, easier at lower levels, to harder
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and he went to the point of even talking about keeping databases
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that were very finely tuned,
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so you would be able to pull out lexical items and grammatical points and so on
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in a scope and sequence that fit
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what we thought we knew about language learning.
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And you know his -- I think his perspective is
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what I think is a reasonable one to bring up again,
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because I think we are often not cognizant of the difference between
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accessible and barely accessible and inaccessible materials,
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especially now that students can go in and, you know,
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get their first-language subtitles and transcripts for a lot of these materials
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and then have the illusion that they are actually understanding the English, in this case,
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and that they're building their English proficiency, where they --
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-- they may be to some extent, but probably not to the extent that they think they are.
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So there is the, you know, that idea of --
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well, in Decoo's book of fine tuning material.
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That doesn't work for me because at the levels I have,
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first of all, I have mixed-level classes to some degree,
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although they are all fairly advanced.
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They come from different backgrounds, I don't know what they know going in.
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So it's a little tricky to do it in the way that he likes.
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But it still gave me the impetus to try and see if I could come up with something,
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you know, I'll show you that in a bit.
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So, the last part of that, then, once you can give at least some kind of level information,
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is to go ahead and then present your pedagogical support,
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whatever it might be.
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This is fairly open-ended, I mean teachers can get -- and often do get -- into material
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and they start stripping out what they think are key vocabulary,
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they produce, you know, pre-listening activities,
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they have post-listening activities,
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they have discussion activities.
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All these are great, but they're based kind of on a classroom model
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and even more important: they take a lot of time away
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from the job of collecting this material.
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So if you put the hours into making full lessons,
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you end up not having the time to even produce as much as I have,
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which, as I mentioned, is not as much as I'd like.
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OK, so that's the curator's role and then -- Vance, if you could go to the next slide.
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Did we lose you?
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>> Jim Buckingham [check]: Hi Phil, I just wanted to add to something you--
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>> Hubbard: Yes, go ahead
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>> Buckingham: Just because of my background:
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I used to work in museums
>> Hubbard: Oh, fantastic
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>> Buckingham: in education and curation
>> Hubbard: A real curator!
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>> Buckingham: Yeah. Just one other item I would add to the list
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and I made a note of it in the chat section
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and that's the -- often without knowing it we're making assumptions about our audience.
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>> Hubbard: Ah!
>> Buckingham: When we're selecting things,
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whether they be objects for display or -- like in the museums -- or
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objects for presentations to students, we're often unknowingly making assumptions
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and I think it's a really important thing to know, to challenge ourselves
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about the assumptions we're making in making those selections, those choices, as experts.
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>> Hubbard: Yeah, I mean that's a very good point
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and I have to -- as individuals, the students always change in my classes.
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As a group, you know, I get to know the group better.
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So I think, in this very targeted group, I can --
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I can come up with at least, initially, some likely ones,
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but I do in fact ask them for feedback on --
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Well, first of all, I give them choices and then I ask them for feedback
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both on, you know, what they chose and why, of the ones I selected for them,
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and also what else they might like to see.
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So it becomes a little bit od a dialog,
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and that could be even more of a dialog, you know, if you have --
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the way my class is structured, again, because it's so small,
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we do a lot both within class discussion and with the individual tutorials.
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But if you got a larger class and you got a discussion board or a wiki or something like that
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where, you know, students can -- can chime in more regularly,
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then you could get some information.
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I also haven't formally surveyed them, so that would be useful too. I --
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>> Buckingham: You're inviting their feedback to inform --
>> Hubbard: Very much so. Yeah.
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>> Buckingham: Yeah --
>> Hubbard: But not as richly as I could.
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So one idea I had was that, you know, like you've seen probably in museums,
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sometimes they have the displays but they'll also have, you know,
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places where people can, you know, write cards
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and make suggestions and say things and drop those off
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and I think, probably increasingly, we'll see museum displays
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where the, you know, the viewers' thoughts are right up there and accessible to other viewers
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when they go to look at the material.
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So I think you're making a really good point and, you know, this is the --
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figuring out exactly the role of the students who are still kind of developing,
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you want to meet them half way but you also, in the curation model, I think,
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want to be careful about the difference between curation and crowdsourcing,
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because I've had students come up with some materials
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that they thought were really exciting,
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but when I looked at it, I could see what the problems were in terms of the --
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the use of it by other students.
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>> Buckingham: Now I take your point: it's you acting as the filter.
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>> Buckingham: and finding --
>> Hubbard: Yeah, and that's --
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and again that's -- and again that's the -- this is the kind of, to me, this the curation model.
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>> Buckingham: Yeah
>> Hubbard: The crowdsourcing model
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is a great model too, it's just a different model
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and it may work better in some cases.
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Of course it also depends on, you know,
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I've been to museums that I didn't think were very well run, were very well organized
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or were confusing.
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So --
>> Buckingham: Yeah.
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>> Hubbard: as soon as you have the human expert coming in,
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they may not be as much of an expert as they think they are.
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That's probably true of me, in fact.
>> Buckingham: Yeah, and there are lots of people [check]
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a lot of examples of museums, because I'm into curating things
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and then I'm finding out that the interpretations that they were expecting audiences to have
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were completely off-base.
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>> Hubbard: Yeah.
>> Buckingham: I think that's a good example
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of big money going into these exhibitions and then being interpreted in a completely unexpected --
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>> Hubbard: Yeah, well, the good news here is, I have no big money.
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I mostly have no money at all for this. So -- [he laughs]
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It's also, the nice thing is, you know, compared to the museum,
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where you have all of these Unkosten [? check] to putting the material in,
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once you have something, you start a web page:
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if it is a disaster, or if it needs to be tweaked or significantly changed,
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it's possible to do that just by finding a little bit of time.
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[Buckingham and Hubbard overlap]
>> Buckingham: It's just [missed words check]
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There's even an opportunity, actually, in, as an expert,
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putting together a series of well-chosen articles
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and then inviting students to assemble them and put them into a -- into an order or sequence,
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and to try and explain the rationale that they've used,
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what connections they've seen in the works.
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It's just another angle to it I sure would --
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>> Hubbard: No, it's a very good angle and in fact, you know,
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as I've moved through stages in probably about 15 years of teaching this course,
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I've tried to give students more independence but also to give them guidance in that independence
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and one of the -- what I hope I'm doing with the material I have,
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I do show them how I put it together.
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And I hope I'm, you know, kind of modeling curation for them as well.
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The idea of getting them to maybe do a little curated piece of their own,
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that could be an interesting final project for the course.
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I will be revisiting it again in Spring.
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I'll be away from it in Winter quarter here
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because we have -- we teach 10-week quarters.
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But that's a possibility for Spring, actually.
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It could also greatly enrich the collection of material that's available to other students.
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Again, as long as I'm there to be a kind of a filter,
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rather than just releasing these into the wild.
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Or if I do release them, you know, making sure that students know the difference
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between ones that are student-produced and the once that I produced
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and why, you know, I did mine one way.
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Then they can -- they can judge to some extent, you know,
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whether they think the rationale used by their peers, you know, was useful for them.
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So, that's a nice idea, I'm making a note of that.
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OK, shall I move on?
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>> [Stevens? check] Yeah. I'm aware of a podcast - there's the slide on I'm talking --
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>> Hubbard: Yeah, thanks
[they laugh]
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>> Stevens (?): I listened to a podcast where some educators had gone to Europe,
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probably on a junket but ostensibly
[Hubbard laughs]
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>> Stevens: to visit museums and find out, you know,
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especially ones that had audience attract--
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you know, the idea was that museums, people didn't have to go there,
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they have to attract people.
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So what do they do to attract the people, as opposed to schools?
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And then, how can we design our classroom environment
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so it's more like a museum?
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So that was actually a serious project and I'll never remember --
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I'll never forget how to get it back, but maybe I will tell you in Portmont [check].
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>> Hubbard: Ah OK? So that was good.
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Yeah, so Vance has put up the slide that I wanted to make a point of here,
00:31:38.012 --> 00:31:41.871
because there are a couple of things that are important about this slide, I think.
00:31:42.563 --> 00:31:45.804
The first is, even though these are just little bullet points,
00:31:45.804 --> 00:31:51.668
that actually took me a while to kind of figure this out, maybe because I'm slow, but --
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Oop, Vance, I lost the slide.
>> Stevens: it is here again? >> Hubbard: thanks.
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Because of all the other distractions I have
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and because of other elements of where I am and what the -- sort of the visibility,
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the first thing I have to make sure is that anything that I curate is actually legally available.
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And a certain amount of stuff that I had used years before, even in my own class,
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I wasn't quite so sure about what the legality was, I think, in the early days of the internet.
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Even now with YouTube I try to be careful about making sure that
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what I've found is something that whoever put it up either has the right to
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or they're reposting something that is --
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that's already got a Creative Commons license or something like that.
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So, especially for something I'm going to put some time into here,
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I want to make sure that what I've got is something I can use.
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I also always want to make it freely available
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because my students have friends back in their home countries
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and they have even colleagues here who don't end up taking my class
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and I have colleagues that are interested in using some of the material I do,
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so everything I do in this kind of a project, I try to make sure it's freely available on the Web.
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Vance, we lost the slide again, or at least I did.
[incomprehensible metallic voice - check]
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>> Hubbard: Oh wait, is this Halima saying something? Uh, you know--
00:33:32.712 --> 00:33:37.752
>> Stevens: No, Halima is unmuting herself as soon as she comes into the chat.
00:33:37.752 --> 00:33:41.633
So I'm going to have to -- Halima, can you mute your microphone?
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Because it's causing feedback.
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And I hope you can figure that out, and meanwhile we put this back.
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Is it back yet [missed words check] Phil?
>> Hubbard: Yeah, that's great. >> Vance: OK
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>> Hubbard: Yeah, so the "freely and legally available" is an important quality
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and you know, TED talks obviously are ideal for that.
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They're likely to be interesting.
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Again that's something -- oops, lost the slide again,
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but I'll just go ahead and walk through these.
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"Likely to be interesting", I guess that connects to a previous commentary [laughs]
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that we don't always know what students think are interesting,
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but I try to pick things that I think are,
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you know, have a good chance of being interesting for the students.
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The good technical quality: there is a lot of stuff, obviously,
00:34:37.032 --> 00:34:44.375
available on the Web that's not, that's interesting and freely and legally available,
00:34:45.328 --> 00:34:51.656
but the technical quality is such that it may be less ideal for language learning.
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We're getting better at that now, certainly, than in the old days,
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but when - when you're looking for material, if it's been overly compressed,
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or it was done with devices that weren't that good in the first place,
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it doesn't necessarily lend itself as well for language learning.
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Stability is a really important point, because I don't want to do this
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and then find out what I did is not available the next time I teach the class,
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or even the next week.
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So again, finding material that has -- either has been up for a while
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or that you know is going to continue to be up for a while.
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The 5th one is a -- you know, people have different views of this,
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but because I'm so tied in with vocabulary development along with comprehension,
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to me it's critical to have captions at least -- [coughs] excuse me, losing my voice here --
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to have captions at least and ideally, to have transcripts.
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And one of the reasons for transcripts is to be able to try to use some material
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which I'll show you in a moment here some of you are probably familiar with:
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the vocabulary profile from lextutor.
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By using -- by dumping the transcript into that, you can get an idea of levelling.
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And if you don't have a transcript,
00:36:25.525 --> 00:36:29.821
then you have to kind of use just intuitive feels for what's the level.
00:36:29.821 --> 00:36:34.194
Then I've personally seen some pretty significant problems with that.
00:36:35.058 --> 00:36:37.755
I may mention one towards the end here
00:36:37.755 --> 00:36:42.397
when I get to some of the alternative sites I know that already exist for this.
00:36:43.182 --> 00:36:45.411
And then ideally, if you can find complem --
00:36:45.411 --> 00:36:47.341
something that has complementary materials.
00:36:47.694 --> 00:36:51.930
Again, in the case of TED talks, you've got materials that are --
00:36:52.837 --> 00:36:59.487
you have a brief summary of whatever the talk is, right there available,
00:36:59.487 --> 00:37:02.246
you don't have to create it as the curator,
00:37:02.246 --> 00:37:06.463
you've got the bio of the speaker, which is good background information,
00:37:06.939 --> 00:37:11.979
and in some cases you even have -- I think, what do they call it, TED Ed or something --
00:37:11.979 --> 00:37:17.160
there are some TED talks that even have some additional material that --
00:37:17.160 --> 00:37:22.277
that people have added to them, in the way of discussion questions and things like that.
00:37:23.015 --> 00:37:28.138
TED's not as rich as, say, you know, if you're doing a newscast for example,
00:37:28.138 --> 00:37:34.395
and you might have several written forms of the same news story
00:37:34.395 --> 00:37:35.910
that you can use for back up:
00:37:35.910 --> 00:37:37.363
it's not quite as rich as that,
00:37:37.363 --> 00:37:44.202
but it's still pretty good with giving you some of these complementary materials, besides the video itself.
00:37:46.786 --> 00:37:50.293
OK. You want to move on to the next --
00:37:51.984 --> 00:37:54.729
>> Hubbard: Actually, it's probably the next couple of slides
>> Stevens: Yeah.
00:37:54.729 --> 00:37:56.136
>> Hubbard: does someone have a question?
00:37:56.689 --> 00:38:04.026
>> Stevens [check]: Yes, Peggy George has asked questions in the text chat, the Etherpad one.
00:38:04.795 --> 00:38:06.710
Let's see, I can -- she asks:
00:38:06.710 --> 00:38:10.976
"Are your students able to share your curated content with others outside the course?"
00:38:10.976 --> 00:38:15.266
>> Hubbard: Yes. Yes, som you'll see the --
00:38:15.266 --> 00:38:20.397
in fact I think it comes up here on the next slide or couple of slides.
00:38:20.397 --> 00:38:25.352
Actually the next slide, if you go to the next slide, let me talk briefly about that,
00:38:25.352 --> 00:38:30.531
because it does have to do with the sharing.
>> Stevens: Mmm - OK
00:38:30.924 --> 00:38:36.351
>> Hubbard: So that the link there is to the advanced listening website
00:38:36.351 --> 00:38:39.045
and you'll see, you know, quite a bit of material there,
00:38:39.045 --> 00:38:40.506
not just the TED talks.
00:38:41.223 --> 00:38:45.365
The link - the specific link to the curated TED talks is a couple of slides from here
00:38:45.365 --> 00:38:52.346
but those are -- those themselves are legally and freely available.
00:38:52.346 --> 00:38:55.430
They're my websites, they are on the Stanford server:
00:38:55.430 --> 00:39:01.159
Stanford is not going away any time soon, as far as I know I'm not going away any time soon.
00:39:01.635 --> 00:39:06.380
So those are not only, you know, available on the World Wide Web,
00:39:06.380 --> 00:39:11.226
unless you happen to be from a country that is for some reason blocking access to Stanford:
00:39:11.702 --> 00:39:14.114
that has happened a few times in the past.
00:39:16.201 --> 00:39:19.125
But if not, then you can get to that material
00:39:19.125 --> 00:39:23.420
and all it does is jump out to the TED talks themselves
00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:26.641
and the TED talks again are, you know, freely available.
00:39:27.317 --> 00:39:31.073
I noticed in one of the preliminary discussions
00:39:31.073 --> 00:39:38.663
that somebody had put in some comments, before this began, on the learning2gether site,
00:39:38.663 --> 00:39:45.799
and mentioned YouTube videos, and YouTube videos are certainly a great resource,
00:39:46.460 --> 00:39:52.745
most of my students are from China and most of them, then, unless things have changed,
00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:57.879
can't freely and legally get the YouTube videos there.
00:39:58.491 --> 00:40:03.737
And so for that reason I try to -- I don't avoid YouTube
00:40:03.737 --> 00:40:07.812
but I try to limit it and I like to make the curated collections
00:40:07.812 --> 00:40:14.174
something that my students will be able to use and their friends will be able to use.
00:40:17.771 --> 00:40:19.946
OK. Any other questions?
00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:26.865
Uh, so, yeah, so they are available and when I -- just so you know --
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:35.245
when I redo the course every quarter, that URL there stays the same, the material is new.
00:40:35.829 --> 00:40:38.552
Well, most of it is old actually, but I do update it
00:40:38.552 --> 00:40:41.418
sometimes because I come up with other ideas
00:40:41.418 --> 00:40:45.627
and sometimes because some of my other class material disappears.
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.874
But the home page of that each quarter has the link to the previous quarter's materials,
00:40:52.874 --> 00:40:58.528
so you can actually step back from quarter to quarter and go back.
00:40:58.528 --> 00:41:04.268
I never throw anything away on the Web, so it's probably got stuff from 5 years ago
00:41:04.268 --> 00:41:09.394
if you keep clicking back through the previous quarters' material.
00:41:09.978 --> 00:41:16.009
So you can see what it was like in the past ["without"? check] sort of my own Internet Archive.
00:41:18.248 --> 00:41:24.538
OK. The way that I did this material, let me move on to the --
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:27.536
Well, I guess on this slide,
00:41:28.243 --> 00:41:35.087
the problems that my students have, typically, fall into issues with speech rate:
00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:38.483
some of the TED talks are too fast.
00:41:38.483 --> 00:41:43.486
It doesn't mean they can't, you know, use top-down skills to understand the basic content,
00:41:43.486 --> 00:41:46.852
but that's not necessarily going to help them drive their --
00:41:46.852 --> 00:41:54.129
either their listening proficiency, you know, their ability to process English, automatize it,
00:41:54.129 --> 00:42:00.709
or their ability to pick out the vocabulary that they don't understand or --
00:42:00.709 --> 00:42:05.666
even more interesting is the vocabulary they sort of understand or partially understand,
00:42:05.666 --> 00:42:11.833
but they just can't get to it, they can't access it in the time with a faster speaker.
00:42:11.833 --> 00:42:16.700
And there are others in my class, actually, that do OK with some of the faster speakers,
00:42:16.700 --> 00:42:20.215
but just having knowledge of the speech rate is useful.
00:42:21.552 --> 00:42:28.016
Preliminary knowledge of the accent: just a -- since in some cases we have students
00:42:28.016 --> 00:42:33.663
that are having particular difficulties with particular accents, often of their professors,
00:42:34.647 --> 00:42:39.950
and they may actually be doing a project where they're trying to focus on that accent.
00:42:40.690 --> 00:42:45.640
And so in that case, knowing more about the accent is helpful.
00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:50.886
And others are really trying to -- I wouldn't say "master",
00:42:50.886 --> 00:42:59.161
but at least becoming -- become more proficient with the North American accent
00:42:59.161 --> 00:43:04.149
because they plan on not only doing their graduate work here, but staying a few years afterwards.
00:43:04.149 --> 00:43:10.060
It's a very common professional track for our students whether at the Master's or the Ph.D. level, to --
00:43:11.981 --> 00:43:15.330
because so many of them are in technology, they want to hang around Silicon Valley
00:43:15.330 --> 00:43:18.683
as much as the can after they, after the graduate.
00:43:20.223 --> 00:43:23.411
OK. If you could go to the next slide, Vance?
00:43:26.865 --> 00:43:30.330
>> Stevens: OK I might
[both overlap]
00:43:30.330 --> 00:43:35.744
>> Stevens: You mentioned Claude Almansi's contribution to the wiki earlier
00:43:35.744 --> 00:43:45.113
and one thing that she said -- she left this on the Google+ page as well:
00:43:45.113 --> 00:43:50.068
I post this to several pages.
Let me just get rid of that slide for a second.
00:43:50.068 --> 00:43:53.922
I see I can do that by clicking off the screen share for a second, OK?
00:43:53.922 --> 00:43:58.394
Well, anyway. She does work in closed captioning,
00:43:58.394 --> 00:44:01.842
she does a lot of very interesting work relating to MOOCs [check] where she is.
00:44:01.842 --> 00:44:08.343
And one of the suggestions she made -- I didn't know this, but maybe you did already,
00:44:08.343 --> 00:44:16.991
but you can -- she said you can, if you get the MP4, if you get an MP4 of a YouTube video,
00:44:16.991 --> 00:44:20.436
you can then load it into Audacity -- I didn't know that --
00:44:20.436 --> 00:44:29.521
and then you can adjust the rate of speech there, without causing any chipmunk effects.
00:44:30.182 --> 00:44:31.928
>> Hubbard: Mmm.
>> Stevens: I thought that was kind of neat.
00:44:31.928 --> 00:44:34.138
Sounds like useful information?
00:44:34.859 --> 00:44:45.063
>> Hubbard: Yeah, that's -- again, there are lots of things you can do to go more deeply into this stuff.
00:44:45.601 --> 00:44:52.019
I -- one of the things I do with TED talks is, you can also download TED talks and you can --
00:44:52.711 --> 00:44:58.337
even if you put them into something, well I use the VLC player,
00:44:58.337 --> 00:45:03.383
because the speech rate slider is right on the top,
00:45:03.383 --> 00:45:08.938
it's much easier to get at than it is in QuickTime or in Windows Media Player.
00:45:08.938 --> 00:45:12.050
I like the VLC player for other reasons, in fact.
00:45:12.495 --> 00:45:20.027
But, you know, once you have downloaded you can use the VLC player to --
00:45:21.532 --> 00:45:24.048
for the most part you don't really get the chipmunk effect
00:45:25.032 --> 00:45:29.930
because it's trying to expand the time domain without changing the frequencies,
00:45:29.930 --> 00:45:34.590
it's not like the old days with LP's and cassette tapes
00:45:34.590 --> 00:45:38.253
where time and frequency were connected to one another.
00:45:38.253 --> 00:45:41.161
Digitally, you can isolate those.
00:45:42.037 --> 00:45:47.079
What we found is that if you slow somebody down to about 80%,
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:54.181
you can get a lot more processing time and it still sounds natural as long as you have good material.
00:45:55.011 --> 00:45:58.228
If you have material that's already been compressed too much,
00:45:58.228 --> 00:46:04.109
then those compression artefacts become stronger if you try to slow it down.
00:46:04.515 --> 00:46:08.955
Occasionally, we get people that my students want to speed up
00:46:08.955 --> 00:46:13.164
but most of the time, for language learning processes, we're talking about slowing it down.
00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:21.178
So it's -- using, changing speech rate, that's a whole different talk,
00:46:21.178 --> 00:46:31.456
but it's, I think, a very underused functionality and something that students sometimes baulk from
00:46:31.456 --> 00:46:41.000
but we have some research evidence that it's helpful when the students have control over it.
00:46:41.753 --> 00:46:44.627
Anyway, I don't want to diverge too much on that, but that's a --
00:46:44.627 --> 00:46:47.232
I do encourage everybody to read that post
00:46:47.232 --> 00:46:51.981
and see in more detail what some of the options are for doing that.
00:46:53.580 --> 00:47:00.362
In fact, one of the -- one of the problems with using the VLC player with those is,
00:47:00.362 --> 00:47:09.049
if you -- if you do try to slow down the speech rate by downloading it and putting it in the VLC player,
00:47:09.064 --> 00:47:12.298
you actually move the subtitles, because the subtitle feature --
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:20.899
the captioning feature in the TED website is built into the website, it's not built into the video.
00:47:20.899 --> 00:47:26.627
And so you would need to do some additional captioning if you want to do that.
00:47:27.481 --> 00:47:34.506
My -- if your goal is general comprehension and you've got decent material,
00:47:35.044 --> 00:47:41.312
then I'm a fan of using the Google beta transcription.
00:47:43.695 --> 00:47:46.604
Even with good material, it makes a lot of mistakes
00:47:46.604 --> 00:47:50.136
and with material which, you know, isn't really, really clear,
00:47:50.136 --> 00:47:53.500
either because the speaker wasn't clear, or because the signal wasn't clear,
00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:54.853
it makes a lot more mistakes.
00:47:55.307 --> 00:47:59.597
And in my case, when I'm trying to have students use it for vocabulary development,
00:48:00.166 --> 00:48:05.289
if it's got -- if it picks the wrong word, then they're going to be learning something pretty weird.
00:48:05.289 --> 00:48:07.970
And it does that all the time.
00:48:08.624 --> 00:48:15.242
If you change that and, you know, get around to Google Translate, to get first-language captions,
00:48:15.242 --> 00:48:18.662
you just accentuate the error rate.
00:48:19.431 --> 00:48:22.725
So again, it really depends on what the goal is.
00:48:22.725 --> 00:48:29.445
If the goal is letting students watch a video for cultural and general content information,
00:48:29.983 --> 00:48:32.884
maybe to trigger classroom discussions, things like that,
00:48:32.884 --> 00:48:38.693
then using the automated captions is not a bad idea
00:48:38.693 --> 00:48:44.726
and being able to slow down is not necessarily -- is, well, I think a good idea.
00:48:46.620 --> 00:48:50.587
So again, it depends on what the goals are, but you have to be careful,
00:48:50.587 --> 00:48:54.117
because the Google beta, there is a reason why they keep calling it beta,
00:48:54.117 --> 00:48:57.572
it's because it's pretty error-prone.
00:48:58.418 --> 00:49:00.464
It's getting better but it's not there yet.
00:49:01.362 --> 00:49:04.721
And if students think it's an accurate rendition
00:49:04.721 --> 00:49:06.328
that's going to be even more difficult.
00:49:06.328 --> 00:49:12.756
If you do use the automated captions then the students need to be prepared for --
00:49:13.463 --> 00:49:16.414
you know, to be able to recognize when something doesn't make sense.
00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:19.737
It's usually -- it's a very obvious semantic issue
00:49:19.737 --> 00:49:21.506
with the words they pick.
00:49:24.072 --> 00:49:28.859
OK. One other thing, I don't remember if it was in that post or another one but
00:49:28.859 --> 00:49:36.097
something I hadn't noticed before someone mentioned that there is a slight delay
00:49:36.097 --> 00:49:39.881
in the synchronization of the captions in TED
00:49:40.296 --> 00:49:43.649
compared to the system that they were suggesting.
00:49:44.163 --> 00:49:48.985
So, uh, that's something else to take into account.
00:49:48.985 --> 00:49:54.082
You might, If that delay seems to be an issue for you or your students, then --
00:49:56.773 --> 00:50:00.845
it's something that I plan to explore because I hadn't noticed that before.
00:50:01.850 --> 00:50:05.785
Okay, a little bit about how I finally figured out to do this,
00:50:05.785 --> 00:50:09.164
which is not the way I would recommend doing it now necessarily
00:50:09.917 --> 00:50:17.277
But this is how I started working on this. When I did it I guess it was Spring of 2011.
00:50:18.184 --> 00:50:27.345
The first thing was to...oh no, it wasn't Spring: Fall of 2011.
00:50:27.773 --> 00:50:30.717
The first thing to do is to get the TED database.
00:50:30.717 --> 00:50:35.492
It turns out you can get an excel spreadsheet that has all of the Ted talks on it.
00:50:35.492 --> 00:50:39.395
If you go to their website you can see that there's a link for that.
00:50:40.176 --> 00:50:45.474
And the nice thing about that is that you can skim that a whole lot more easily
00:50:45.474 --> 00:50:47.624
than you can skim other material
00:50:47.624 --> 00:50:55.086
and you can also look, among other things, it tells you what the length of the talk is.
00:50:55.086 --> 00:51:04.124
And most Ted talks are around 18 minutes and most students attention focus ability is less.
00:51:06.981 --> 00:51:17.365
Um, okay, the database then, when I did it myself,
00:51:17.365 --> 00:51:19.865
it was smaller for one thing, at that point.
00:51:19.865 --> 00:51:24.829
But I did sort of skim it and looked for ideas, looked for themes
00:51:25.490 --> 00:51:27.343
and searched for keywords.
00:51:27.343 --> 00:51:30.100
So creativity was one of the first ones I did,
00:51:30.100 --> 00:51:34.022
so I was just able to search for anything that had creativity
00:51:34.022 --> 00:51:37.467
either in its description or in its title.
00:51:38.467 --> 00:51:43.295
I put together a list of candidates within that.
00:51:43.295 --> 00:51:48.094
I was looking for four or five talks to make a kind of a cluster,
00:51:48.094 --> 00:51:52.217
a sort of a virtual room in the museum if you will.
00:51:53.317 --> 00:52:01.441
And for each of those, I -- well, first of all, I did listen to the accent and got that.
00:52:02.364 --> 00:52:06.405
I wanted to get at least a proxy for the speech speed
00:52:06.405 --> 00:52:08.335
and so -- the speech rate --
00:52:08.335 --> 00:52:11.527
so I just took the transcript, dumped it into Word
00:52:11.527 --> 00:52:16.117
so that I got a word count, divided that and came up with words per minute.
00:52:16.117 --> 00:52:20.745
I was actually quite surprised at the range that I could see there.
00:52:20.745 --> 00:52:25.562
If you go to the website for cre-- the link for "creativity"
00:52:25.562 --> 00:52:30.609
on my ted1 website of the curated talks there --
00:52:31.209 --> 00:52:35.528
the slowest speech rate is like 91 words a minute.
00:52:36.036 --> 00:52:40.006
Some of that is because there are pictures being shown in between
00:52:40.482 --> 00:52:44.878
but it still means you got a lot more time to process the language coming in
00:52:44.878 --> 00:52:48.530
than if you got somebody coming in at -- at a higher rate.
00:52:49.837 --> 00:52:54.340
Some of my students do a --
00:52:55.447 --> 00:53:00.118
there's a website at Stanford called "Entrepreneurship corner"
00:53:00.118 --> 00:53:03.107
and they have a lot of Silicon Valley types come in
00:53:03.107 --> 00:53:05.160
and give talks on campus.
00:53:05.160 --> 00:53:08.132
They also have transcripts and subtitles for that
00:53:08.562 --> 00:53:13.150
and one of the talks that I always have the students try
00:53:13.150 --> 00:53:17.601
is Marissa Mayer who, at the time she gave the talk, was a VP for Google
00:53:18.092 --> 00:53:21.264
but is now the CEO of Yahoo!.
00:53:22.001 --> 00:53:28.877
And she talks between 220 and 237 words a minute on the one I have,
00:53:28.877 --> 00:53:36.271
so I use her as an example of where you might try to use the speech rate shift
00:53:36.271 --> 00:53:40.918
and be able to use the slider to slow her down to 80%.
00:53:42.640 --> 00:53:47.581
OK. The next thing, once I have that rough speed --
00:53:47.581 --> 00:53:53.330
and again, it's just a rough speed, but it's better than not using technology
00:53:53.330 --> 00:53:57.678
and try just to use intuition about "This is too fast, this is too slow."
00:53:58.354 --> 00:54:06.895
The vocabulary profiler -- this is Tom Cobb's work of genius in my opinion.
00:54:06.895 --> 00:54:11.190
There are a lot of parts to that lextutor.ca site,
00:54:11.190 --> 00:54:14.063
but the one that I use for this purpose is the --
00:54:14.063 --> 00:54:18.312
well, at the time, was the British National Corpus profiler
00:54:18.312 --> 00:54:19.919
and there is the link to it there.
00:54:19.919 --> 00:54:23.600
Basically, you dump a text, a transcript into it
00:54:23.600 --> 00:54:30.634
and it gives you as output all the words divided into 1'000 verbal frequency bands,
00:54:30.634 --> 00:54:34.219
so, you know, which words are in the first thousand words of English,
00:54:34.219 --> 00:54:36.778
the second thousand words of English, and so on,
00:54:36.778 --> 00:54:38.947
all the way up to the 20'000 level.
00:54:38.947 --> 00:54:47.196
For my students, we try to focus more on the, you know, just doing a short --
00:54:48.641 --> 00:54:53.681
well, we -- I try to get them to focus more around the 5'000 level,
00:54:53.681 --> 00:54:55.961
so anything below that that they don't know,
00:54:55.961 --> 00:54:57.784
it means it's a word that they should learn.
00:54:59.752 --> 00:55:03.797
And when you go to my site, you can see how that's split up.
00:55:04.689 --> 00:55:07.612
I skim the transcript for unusual terms and idioms --
00:55:07.612 --> 00:55:10.851
Oh, I meant to mention: in the last few weeks,
00:55:11.558 --> 00:55:20.449
Tom has actually added the Coca, it's a contemporary corpus of American English
00:55:20.449 --> 00:55:21.979
and blended those in,
00:55:21.979 --> 00:55:24.338
so it now goes up to the 25'000 level.
00:55:24.737 --> 00:55:29.222
And it has much more American English in it now,
00:55:29.222 --> 00:55:30.506
rather than just the British.
00:55:31.198 --> 00:55:35.210
So, for those of you who like, you know, concordancing
00:55:35.210 --> 00:55:37.511
and corpus studying, study and so on,
00:55:37.511 --> 00:55:43.030
it's got a much richer layering out than it did when I was using it for this purpose.
00:55:45.905 --> 00:55:47.743
OK. So that's the process.
00:55:47.743 --> 00:55:53.333
Now I said, you know, I would do it a little bit differently, probably.
00:55:53.333 --> 00:55:57.579
It turns out that, since the time I began this and now,
00:55:58.502 --> 00:56:01.464
TED has come up with its own curated collections.
00:56:01.464 --> 00:56:03.598
And so, if you go to the TED website,
00:56:03.598 --> 00:56:06.178
you will see a link to something called "playlists"
00:56:06.916 --> 00:56:11.232
and these are collections of material that people have put together.
00:56:11.232 --> 00:56:13.627
In some cases, it's done by TED itself,
00:56:14.503 --> 00:56:17.039
you know, whoever is in the background working there,
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:21.583
but they also have curated collections by Bill Gates and Bono
00:56:21.598 --> 00:56:24.073
and, you know, other famous folk,
00:56:24.073 --> 00:56:27.414
or in some cases, they're people who are less famous
00:56:27.414 --> 00:56:34.829
but, you know, are very well-known within their, you know, their more restricted field.
00:56:34.851 --> 00:56:37.567
And there's some really, really good collections there.
00:56:39.074 --> 00:56:41.648
So now, instead of just going to the database,
00:56:41.648 --> 00:56:45.870
my inclination would be to go to that -- to those other curated playlists.
00:56:45.870 --> 00:56:48.443
Those have been curated just by interest
00:56:48.812 --> 00:56:54.915
and so if you have a list of maybe 10 or 12 videos on one topic,
00:56:55.438 --> 00:56:58.707
you go through those, and maybe you pick out the 4 or 5
00:56:58.707 --> 00:57:00.391
that you think are easiest to work with.
00:57:03.681 --> 00:57:05.847
So, that's there on the "Recent changes".
00:57:07.062 --> 00:57:09.887
I did -- number 2 there where it says
00:57:09.887 --> 00:57:11.263
-- this is from my talk last July --
00:57:11.263 --> 00:57:16.483
Well, I did have a project assistant who has collected some more material for me
00:57:16.483 --> 00:57:21.208
and basically run it through the -- the Word, you know,
00:57:21.208 --> 00:57:27.859
done some of the preliminary work for the words for minute and the vocabulary profile.
00:57:28.659 --> 00:57:31.237
Unfortunately, that came at the end of Summer,
00:57:31.237 --> 00:57:33.568
right before Fall quarter started for me
00:57:33.568 --> 00:57:36.337
and I have not had a chance to really look through her material
00:57:37.244 --> 00:57:41.933
but I do have some partially digested material
00:57:41.933 --> 00:57:44.901
that should help me create some new stuff.
00:57:47.207 --> 00:57:51.275
I guess, at this point, probably the most useful thing --
00:57:51.275 --> 00:57:56.155
Vance, could you -- can you actually click on that link to the TED1,
00:57:56.155 --> 00:57:58.435
just so I can sort of show people what --
00:57:59.622 --> 00:58:01.137
[Stevens and Hubbard speak together]
>> Stevens: ... already.
00:58:01.137 --> 00:58:05.935
It's in the text chat. So --
>> Hubbard: Ah, OK, so people can go to it
00:58:05.935 --> 00:58:08.496
on their own? Alright, then you --
>>Stevens: I can also share it.
00:58:09.145 --> 00:58:13.485
>> Hubbard: Well, the only thing -- I think if you go down -- go to the next slide actually,
00:58:13.485 --> 00:58:15.138
there's the Creativity group.
>> Stevens: OK.
00:58:15.968 --> 00:58:17.344
>> Hubbard: and this will show --
00:58:19.697 --> 00:58:23.629
This is a more condensed version of what you would see on the page.
00:58:24.367 --> 00:58:26.533
>> Stevens: Mmh. OK: let me share it.
00:58:26.533 --> 00:58:30.460
>> Hubbard: but this is, yeah, this is the Andy Hobs-- Hobsbawm,
00:58:30.460 --> 00:58:32.490
I'm not sure how to pronounce his name.
00:58:34.019 --> 00:58:41.784
This is a nice beginning talk, I think it's the second talk in the Creativity group.
00:58:41.784 --> 00:58:44.603
You can see it's a pretty short talk, just three and a half minutes.
00:58:44.603 --> 00:58:47.656
You can see the speed is 135 words per minute.
00:58:47.656 --> 00:58:50.703
He has kind of a dramatic presentation style,
00:58:51.117 --> 00:58:55.910
so that's why it's a little bit more slow, a little bit slower,
00:58:55.910 --> 00:58:58.845
it's very articulate, it's very easy to hear,
00:58:58.845 --> 00:59:05.877
it is more of a British English rather than an American English version.
00:59:06.692 --> 00:59:09.745
The vocabulary you can see at the 5'000 level,
00:59:09.745 --> 00:59:16.047
so if you -- to read that, I mean, 95% of the words are in the first 5'000 words of English.
00:59:17.523 --> 00:59:22.504
And, you know, 98% of the first 10'000, and then Off-List.
00:59:22.504 --> 00:59:25.538
The Off-List on these are often proper nouns.
00:59:25.538 --> 00:59:29.486
So those don't necessarily cause a great deal of difficulty,
00:59:29.486 --> 00:59:31.233
especially if some of the names in it,
00:59:31.233 --> 00:59:36.164
or names of places are ones that the students already are familiar with.
00:59:36.164 --> 00:59:38.158
[stifles a sneeze] Excuse me.
00:59:38.158 --> 00:59:41.088
About to sneeze. Wasn't expecting to do that online.
00:59:42.857 --> 00:59:46.715
And then a little bit of a comment: "creativity is repeated a number of times."
00:59:46.715 --> 00:59:50.565
So, if you go to the website, you'll see it's a -- it's a little richer than that
00:59:50.565 --> 00:59:53.958
but this kind of captures the main point I want to say.
00:59:53.958 --> 00:59:59.188
So I said, I'm giving value added, as the expert,
00:59:59.188 --> 01:00:01.465
and not only am I collecting these things,
01:00:02.111 --> 01:00:08.186
but I'm using technology to give students some idea of level.
01:00:09.263 --> 01:00:11.737
Ultimately, it would be great if I could say, you know,
01:00:11.737 --> 01:00:21.270
this is level 5 of 10 levels, or this is at the B1 level of the C, CEF,
01:00:22.946 --> 01:00:28.632
or just even, you know, this is high-intermediate, or something like that.
01:00:28.632 --> 01:00:31.867
I don't have that confidence yet,
01:00:31.867 --> 01:00:34.867
so at this point I'm giving students more the raw data,
01:00:34.867 --> 01:00:40.032
but I do actually tell them, and I may highlight this in future versions,
01:00:40.432 --> 01:00:47.177
that at the 5'000 level is probably the most important pivot point for my students.
01:00:48.323 --> 01:00:52.262
If that level, you know, if that's up to 96 or 97%,
01:00:52.293 --> 01:00:55.431
that means they're going to understand that fairly well.
01:00:55.431 --> 01:01:00.764
If it's down even to 92 or 93%, then there are likely to be enough words in there
01:01:00.764 --> 01:01:02.880
that they are going to have gaps.
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.721
And they'll be able to process it top-down, extract information from it,
01:01:07.721 --> 01:01:10.188
but it won't be as valuable for language learning.
01:01:10.680 --> 01:01:12.851
If you look at the, you know, the research on reading,
01:01:12.851 --> 01:01:15.758
which is much better established than on listening,
01:01:17.066 --> 01:01:22.360
anywhere between 95 and 98% is what people typically quote as
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:25.518
material that's ideal for language learning.
01:01:25.534 --> 01:01:28.896
And below that percentage, if you don't know those words,
01:01:29.327 --> 01:01:33.304
then you're not going to be reading or listening in the same way:
01:01:33.351 --> 01:01:36.175
you're not going to be processing the language in the same way.
01:01:37.144 --> 01:01:41.817
OK. I see we're moving ahead quite a bit on time here.
01:01:41.848 --> 01:01:45.920
So I think I'll go to a -- just a final slide.
01:01:45.951 --> 01:01:48.969
Vance, could you go to the "Related examples" one?
01:01:50.307 --> 01:01:54.069
>> Stevens: Uh-uh.
>> Hubbard: Just to let you -- yeah --
01:01:54.100 --> 01:01:56.812
these are just a few places that I know of
01:01:56.812 --> 01:01:59.799
where people are trying to do something similar.
01:02:00.506 --> 01:02:05.435
The CLILSTORE Project is a very big European project
01:02:05.881 --> 01:02:10.728
and they have collected material.
01:02:10.728 --> 01:02:11.981
Some of it they've done themselves,
01:02:11.981 --> 01:02:16.373
some of it teachers have put into there, to their database,
01:02:16.373 --> 01:02:23.148
they have information on the talk itself, they've --
01:02:23.148 --> 01:02:28.635
whoever has done it has put in a CEF level,
01:02:28.635 --> 01:02:33.815
so it starts with all the A1 material, then the A2, and then the B1 and then the B2.
01:02:33.815 --> 01:02:37.697
It's done in -- I checked -- and it's apparently done intuitively.
01:02:37.697 --> 01:02:42.396
It's not apparently done by running it through, you know,
01:02:42.396 --> 01:02:46.439
the kind of material that I was using there, lextutor and so on.
01:02:46.439 --> 01:02:49.501
But at least, it means an expert teacher has said:
01:02:49.501 --> 01:02:51.834
"Here is the level I think this is at."
01:02:51.834 --> 01:02:55.559
I will mention some issues with that myself,
01:02:55.559 --> 01:03:00.648
because I looked at it and they put a TED talk in the A1 level, somebody had it.
01:03:00.648 --> 01:03:07.097
And it's definitely not the A1 level for -- at least for comprehension purposes.
01:03:07.097 --> 01:03:09.146
It may be that the person put that in
01:03:09.146 --> 01:03:11.103
because the content was so valuable
01:03:11.103 --> 01:03:14.528
and that they thought that this is something that could be used
01:03:14.528 --> 01:03:16.195
you know, with a lot of help.
01:03:16.195 --> 01:03:23.695
But the main feature of the CLILSTORE material is that all of the words --
01:03:23.695 --> 01:03:25.313
there is a transcript
01:03:25.313 --> 01:03:29.535
and all the words in the transcript are linked to multilingual dictionaries.
01:03:29.535 --> 01:03:32.135
So you just have to click on a word in a transcript you don't know,
01:03:32.135 --> 01:03:35.358
and you immediately get the response.
01:03:35.358 --> 01:03:39.597
Ayamel is a Brigham Young media project
01:03:39.597 --> 01:03:44.148
where they've been collecting and cataloging authentic media.
01:03:44.148 --> 01:03:48.691
All of these use authentic media, I want to emphasize there,
01:03:48.691 --> 01:03:50.896
but you could go back, you know,
01:03:50.896 --> 01:03:55.315
and curate Randall's Cyber Listening Lab or something like that as well.
01:03:55.315 --> 01:03:57.557
And then I haven't checked this one.
01:03:57.557 --> 01:03:59.961
I hope the link is still good.
01:03:59.961 --> 01:04:03.026
There is a product called Lingle
01:04:03.026 --> 01:04:06.556
that will index according to Common European Framework level,
01:04:06.556 --> 01:04:09.891
so if you put something into it, it will give its best guess
01:04:09.891 --> 01:04:17.561
as to, you know, what the level is for both reading and for listening.
01:04:17.561 --> 01:04:21.271
OK. Let's see.
01:04:21.271 --> 01:04:25.392
I see somebody else has put a CEF level (check) over in the chat -- James.
01:04:25.392 --> 01:04:30.802
So, some of you might want to take a look at some of the [missed word, check] material.
01:04:30.802 --> 01:04:32.961
As somebody else mentioned the SRA, by the way,
01:04:32.961 --> 01:04:34.559
and I don't have it in this talk,
01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:40.597
but I -- some of you may be familiar with Tom Robb's work on graded readers.
01:04:40.597 --> 01:04:43.313
Charles Brown has also been doing a lot of work in that.
01:04:43.313 --> 01:04:50.481
And graded readers are clearly examples of material that fits into this.
01:04:50.481 --> 01:04:54.280
The difference is, they're not freely available.
01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:57.983
Unless somebody has come up with a really good collection that I don't know about yet,
01:04:57.983 --> 01:05:02.526
you're always stuck with having to pay a fair amount to a publisher
01:05:02.526 --> 01:05:06.135
to get the graded readers, and they're not authentic,
01:05:06.135 --> 01:05:08.126
but I think they're useful enough,
01:05:08.126 --> 01:05:11.458
like, I don't think that authenticity is all that great a thing if you're --
01:05:11.458 --> 01:05:15.177
if you're still at a lower level and just trying to get the language in.
01:05:15.177 --> 01:05:21.750
So, I think, something that's well-written and, you know, well-produced,
01:05:21.750 --> 01:05:27.606
to me, whether it's technically authentic or not is a secondary issue.
01:05:27.606 --> 01:05:33.815
My key here is this idea of freely available, and often it's not.
01:05:33.815 --> 01:05:37.280
OK. Let me go ahead and stop again:
01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:40.602
the, you know, the final comments and the reference list and all of that,
01:05:40.602 --> 01:05:42.983
you can get if you go to the PDF yourself
01:05:42.983 --> 01:05:49.501
but I do want to give people a chance, especially some of those who have, you know,
01:05:49.501 --> 01:05:52.271
either put things over in the chat
01:05:52.271 --> 01:05:56.392
or who have read things over in the chat that look interesting,
01:05:56.392 --> 01:05:59.057
and certainly the participants here.
01:05:59.057 --> 01:06:05.059
What -- what questions and comments do we have?
01:06:05.059 --> 01:06:08.767
>> Stevens: Claude Almansi has arrived in the chat
01:06:08.767 --> 01:06:14.228
but she's shy about coming in because she hasn't heard the whole conversation,
01:06:14.228 --> 01:06:17.733
but anyway: I guess she could if she wanted.
01:06:17.733 --> 01:06:22.726
There are seven people in the chat now, so we have -- that is, in the hangout --
01:06:22.726 --> 01:06:25.561
so we have room for three.
01:06:25.561 --> 01:06:29.068
>> Buckingham: Hi Phil, I just wanted to add, I think that this is
>>Hubbard: Uh uh
01:06:29.068 --> 01:06:31.834
>> Buckingham: This -- it lit a light bulb for me.
01:06:31.834 --> 01:06:35.398
I just thought this getting a group of people together,
01:06:35.398 --> 01:06:41.646
use this kind, this style of approach to collecting transcripts
01:06:41.646 --> 01:06:43.481
and analyzing the transcripts
01:06:43.481 --> 01:06:46.593
and the being able to put them, I don't know where,
01:06:46.593 --> 01:06:48.463
somewhere up in the cloud,
01:06:48.463 --> 01:06:52.169
I mean over time, you could have quite an assortment of these readings
01:06:52.169 --> 01:06:58.628
to be shared collectively, and then, basically, circumvent the SRA
01:06:58.628 --> 01:07:00.362
and the [missed words - check].
01:07:00.362 --> 01:07:02.938
This would be fantastic.
01:07:02.938 --> 01:07:04.501
Just thinking aloud here.
01:07:04.501 --> 01:07:10.028
>> Hubbard: Well it's, you know, certainly part of what I'm trying to do here,
01:07:10.028 --> 01:07:13.901
because I don't have the time that I wish I did for this,
01:07:13.901 --> 01:07:21.146
you know, is to both encourage other people to be interested in it
01:07:21.146 --> 01:07:26.233
and get into, whether they're formal or informal collaborative projects
01:07:26.233 --> 01:07:28.144
for putting stuff together,
01:07:28.144 --> 01:07:31.762
and then, secondly, just for experimenting for yourself,
01:07:31.762 --> 01:07:38.434
because this is something that I've thought about a lot, I've done some reading in,
01:07:38.434 --> 01:07:42.811
and I've also tried things along the way
01:07:42.811 --> 01:07:44.981
and have ideas about how to make it better,
01:07:44.981 --> 01:07:49.148
but it's still very much in its infancy.
01:07:49.148 --> 01:07:57.257
And this is if -- if is the subtitle of Rosenbaum's book is that, you know,
01:07:57.257 --> 01:08:01.311
content is the -- curation is the future of content,
01:08:01.311 --> 01:08:04.610
then this is something we need to get better at
01:08:04.610 --> 01:08:08.267
and be thinking about that for different purposes,
01:08:08.267 --> 01:08:12.900
so, if you're curating materials, for example, for teachers to use in classrooms,
01:08:12.900 --> 01:08:16.727
that could be quite different from curating materials
01:08:16.727 --> 01:08:19.468
that you're going to have the students use independently.
01:08:19.468 --> 01:08:21.625
It could hopefully overlap quite a bit,
01:08:21.625 --> 01:08:24.532
but it won't be the same.
01:08:24.532 --> 01:08:31.151
And curating materials for cultural purposes, or for triggering discussions,
01:08:31.151 --> 01:08:33.978
is not going to be the same as the way I've curated here,
01:08:33.978 --> 01:08:40.679
you know, where I'm more concerned with level than other people might be,
01:08:40.679 --> 01:08:42.869
whereas others might be more concerned with the content itself
01:08:42.869 --> 01:08:46.828
and, you know, don't have a problem with letting people listen to it
01:08:46.828 --> 01:08:49.526
with subtitles in their native language.
01:08:51.372 --> 01:08:56.845
Or, you know, with sort of getting the gist of it without necessarily getting all the details.
01:08:56.845 --> 01:09:00.769
So there is a -- there's a very rich area here to explore in lots of different directions.
01:09:00.769 --> 01:09:04.159
What I try to do too, is keep the curation pretty light.
01:09:04.788 --> 01:09:07.486
When I've given this talk before, a couple of times,
01:09:07.486 --> 01:09:11.520
people often come up with ideas for, you know,
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:15.651
adding discussion questions, basically making it more,
01:09:15.651 --> 01:09:19.065
into more lesson-like and adding --
01:09:19.065 --> 01:09:21.455
in other words, having more value added.
01:09:21.455 --> 01:09:22.955
And I think that's great.
01:09:23.601 --> 01:09:27.063
I'm trying to come up with sort of an intermediate stage
01:09:27.063 --> 01:09:29.147
where I'm doing something that's helpful,
01:09:29.515 --> 01:09:34.639
but not something that -- that I wouldn't have time to do otherwise.
01:09:39.775 --> 01:09:41.405
Are there questions, comments?
01:09:49.264 --> 01:09:55.914
I see there is a lot of people talking about SRA [laughs] over in the chat.
01:09:55.914 --> 01:09:57.314
>> Stevens: [missed words - check]
>> Hubbard: Yeah.
01:09:57.667 --> 01:09:59.771
>> Hubbard: So for those of you would be listening [missed words check]
01:09:59.771 --> 01:10:03.021
I'd be looking SRA Science Research Associates is a --
01:10:03.021 --> 01:10:07.614
a set of graded readers that was very popular in the US,
01:10:08.244 --> 01:10:12.015
probably going back to the 1960's, 1970's.
01:10:12.631 --> 01:10:15.435
I remember using it in my first reading lab
01:10:15.435 --> 01:10:18.453
when I was teaching in the early 80's and it's,
01:10:19.099 --> 01:10:22.717
unless it's changed, it's designed for native speakers materials,
01:10:22.717 --> 01:10:29.514
but it's aimed at trying to lead you step by step into reading proficiency.
01:10:29.514 --> 01:10:33.667
And it's a fairly traditional approach of, you know, read,
01:10:33.667 --> 01:10:36.177
respond to comprehension questions and so on,
01:10:36.177 --> 01:10:40.146
but it does have -- it does timed readings and some other things as well,
01:10:40.146 --> 01:10:44.697
and is very much in the general graded readers approach.
01:10:48.818 --> 01:10:50.902
Oops, perhaps I'm not hearing you.
01:11:00.515 --> 01:11:03.683
>> Stevens: [missed word check], how about this one. Oops.
01:11:03.683 --> 01:11:05.244
Is that working? OK, yeah.
01:11:05.244 --> 01:11:09.768
My USB went out, now I'm on word mike [check]
01:11:09.768 --> 01:11:15.671
OK, well, anyway, I was saying that I have some perspectives on this,
01:11:15.671 --> 01:11:22.407
having seen you present some of this at the TESOL conference in the KIS group.
01:11:22.407 --> 01:11:24.854
Your focus was a little bit different at that time,
01:11:24.854 --> 01:11:27.394
it was on the videos themselves.
01:11:28.240 --> 01:11:33.057
And I wonder if you have a link to that presentation
01:11:33.057 --> 01:11:33.987
that you could put in there,
01:11:33.987 --> 01:11:36.879
because there were really nice examples of what you can do with this,
01:11:37.417 --> 01:11:39.930
as far as finding graded materials for your students,
01:11:39.930 --> 01:11:44.794
and -- because I think you had those organized in such a way that they started simple
01:11:44.794 --> 01:11:47.280
and went to more difficult.
01:11:47.807 --> 01:11:51.633
>> Hubbard: Right, the materials and I think what I did in that talk
01:11:51.633 --> 01:11:57.373
is basically walk through the -- the ted1 web page.
01:11:58.034 --> 01:12:01.838
And so if you go to that link that we've already -- that I've already put in there,
01:12:01.838 --> 01:12:03.873
the one that ends in ted1--
>> Stevens: yeah
01:12:03.873 --> 01:12:06.732
>> Hubbard: let me see for sure if I can bring it up here
01:12:06.732 --> 01:12:08.861
>> Stevens: I might be able to do that.
01:12:10.445 --> 01:12:13.761
OK, yeah, I probably got that here: here we go.
01:12:13.761 --> 01:12:15.299
Yes, I got it here.
01:12:15.683 --> 01:12:18.203
>> Hubbard: Yeah, so that gives a little bit the back --
01:12:18.203 --> 01:12:23.637
one of the problems is this particular long scrolling web page
01:12:23.637 --> 01:12:27.282
that needs to be broken up and do a little bit of a hierarchy.
01:12:27.282 --> 01:12:30.839
But for right now, this is sort of what I have available.
01:12:31.209 --> 01:12:35.685
So it gives a little bit of background, if it's the one I think it is,
01:12:35.685 --> 01:12:40.153
let me double-check here and -- It's not up on the main screen
01:12:40.153 --> 01:12:42.446
so I'll have to --
01:12:44.738 --> 01:12:47.392
>> Stevens: Would it be this one? Yes. We -- have I got it up there now?
01:12:48.561 --> 01:12:50.361
>> Hubbard: Errh, that's the one, yeah.
01:12:50.392 --> 01:12:51.717
[Stevens and Hubbard overlap]
01:12:51.717 --> 01:12:53.378
>> Hubbard: This is actually what the students see.
01:12:53.378 --> 01:13:02.317
So this is really for them.
>> Stevens: You've got to find the window --
01:13:08.485 --> 01:13:11.668
>> Hubbard: And so again, it explains, you know, how I have --
01:13:13.407 --> 01:13:16.243
I've -- the material that's in there,
01:13:16.243 --> 01:13:18.191
the support material that's in there for the students
01:13:19.514 --> 01:13:23.126
And then this is the example group 1,
01:13:23.126 --> 01:13:25.099
the first one I did was on creativity
01:13:25.099 --> 01:13:27.018
and I said that one is a little easier,
01:13:27.018 --> 01:13:29.997
because sometimes the students want to have some idea of --
01:13:30.658 --> 01:13:33.508
that was just my impression that it was easier.
01:13:34.831 --> 01:13:39.867
And so it starts with -- you can see the words per minute speed on this,
01:13:39.867 --> 01:13:46.403
since 91, the vocabulary is relatively easier,you know,
01:13:46.403 --> 01:13:51.677
95.4 at the 5K level, it's a US standard.
01:13:51.677 --> 01:13:53.953
It does have a, you know,
01:13:54.384 --> 01:14:02.171
almost no student who takes this actually knows the word "tinker", going in,
01:14:03.048 --> 01:14:04.950
and this is about the "tinkering school".
01:14:04.950 --> 01:14:07.512
So, one of things, if I had a little more time,
01:14:07.512 --> 01:14:10.861
is that I would add under the comment, instead of just saying:
01:14:10.861 --> 01:14:12.934
"Some good vocabulary to learn,"
01:14:12.934 --> 01:14:15.205
I would probably define the word "tinker" there,
01:14:17.696 --> 01:14:21.039
without spending too much more time:
01:14:21.039 --> 01:14:22.877
just looking at this, it reminds me.
01:14:22.877 --> 01:14:27.197
The second one, also fairly short, is the one I already mentioned,
01:14:27.197 --> 01:14:30.091
on the "Do the Green Thing."
01:14:30.614 --> 01:14:33.861
The third one, students find this really interesting.
01:14:33.861 --> 01:14:39.274
It's a 12-year old giving a talk on what adults can learn from kids.
01:14:39.274 --> 01:14:44.690
She speaks faster, but the vocabulary level is a little bit lower. [1:14:44]
01:14:47.807 --> 01:14:52.958
And it's kind of inspiring to them to see what 12-year olds can talk about.
01:14:54.526 --> 01:14:59.068
The next one -- the last one there, "Amy Tan on creativity,"
01:14:59.083 --> 01:15:02.351
because, as I mentioned, I have so many Chinese students in my group,
01:15:02.351 --> 01:15:04.799
this is a, you know, a Chinese-American
01:15:04.799 --> 01:15:07.669
who writes about the Chinese-American experience.
01:15:09.898 --> 01:15:13.664
Interestingly, you'd kind of expect somebody from literature
01:15:13.664 --> 01:15:16.156
to maybe be using high-level language,
01:15:16.156 --> 01:15:20.106
but her vocabulary profile is actually the easiest.
01:15:20.967 --> 01:15:29.340
So, 97.5% at the 5K or below, 96% at the first 3'000 words level.
01:15:29.340 --> 01:15:34.158
So this one, in terms of accessibility for vocabulary, is by far the easiest.
01:15:34.158 --> 01:15:38.547
It is, however, also longer
01:15:39.377 --> 01:15:45.678
and because of that, its
-- OK, I have to
01:15:47.369 --> 01:15:51.505
I got a -- a little thing popped up on my screen:
01:15:51.505 --> 01:15:55.568
that's David Wexler "Open Capture" smile.
01:15:56.121 --> 01:15:59.115
So, am I supposed to click "Open capture"?
[Stevens giggles]
01:16:01.868 --> 01:16:03.209
>> Hubbard: Anybody know?
01:16:03.547 --> 01:16:04.739
>> Stevens: I don't know.
>> Hubbard: they are saying [check]
01:16:04.739 --> 01:16:07.928
Sorry, mistake, no, sorry, mis-clicking up there [check]
01:16:08.959 --> 01:16:10.566
I'm gonna -- I'm just going to close that window
01:16:10.566 --> 01:16:12.780
because now I can't see the rest of my stuff.
01:16:12.780 --> 01:16:18.409
[laughs] I'll be happy to send a photo to you if you'd like.
01:16:18.409 --> 01:16:22.425
[Stevens laughs]
>> Hubbard: even autographed.
01:16:23.440 --> 01:16:25.648
OK, so that was one group.
01:16:25.815 --> 01:16:30.043
The next group, the one on humor, you'll notice the --
01:16:30.043 --> 01:16:31.727
I tell them the overall time on these,
01:16:31.727 --> 01:16:34.630
so this one's like about 40 minutes long
01:16:35.322 --> 01:16:40.287
It begins with this talk, which has actually very little English in it,
01:16:40.287 --> 01:16:43.926
but it is a -- this is an example of what happens in curation.
01:16:44.510 --> 01:16:47.613
The talk by itself isn't that useful for language learning,
01:16:47.613 --> 01:16:50.546
but it sets the stage very much for the first --
01:16:50.546 --> 01:16:52.446
for the next two talks that follow it.
01:16:53.215 --> 01:16:55.621
"The TED speaker's worst nightmare",
01:16:56.113 --> 01:16:57.689
the guy starts to talk and then
01:16:58.735 --> 01:17:02.079
-- much as I experienced this morning when I was trying to get in here --
01:17:02.970 --> 01:17:05.682
runs into some significant technical difficulty.
01:17:07.420 --> 01:17:09.842
And then, the next one on, "Gotta share" is --
01:17:10.801 --> 01:17:14.848
is actually one of the talks,
01:17:14.848 --> 01:17:18.930
it's not technically a TED talk, but it's something posted on the TED website.
01:17:18.930 --> 01:17:22.627
It has all the -- it has the text support
01:17:22.627 --> 01:17:27.421
although it doesn't have a -- it doesn't have a transcript.
01:17:27.821 --> 01:17:33.359
So you -- but it's actually sort of a musical about social media that's--
01:17:33.359 --> 01:17:34.997
that's quite interesting.
01:17:34.997 --> 01:17:38.235
And specially as a lot of my students actually, you know,
01:17:38.235 --> 01:17:40.088
they know about Facebook
01:17:40.088 --> 01:17:43.556
but they don't know about things like vimeo,
01:17:43.556 --> 01:17:47.293
they don't recognize the reference to MySpace,
01:17:47.939 --> 01:17:49.608
where the character says, you know --
01:17:49.608 --> 01:17:50.984
"Is anybody else on MySpace?"
01:17:50.984 --> 01:17:52.345
and everybody says "No,"
01:17:52.345 --> 01:17:57.893
you know, that one [check], FourSquare, and a whole bunch of social media points [check]
01:17:57.893 --> 01:18:05.399
So, it's a very entertaining song
01:18:06.137 --> 01:18:07.883
but it's also built into --
01:18:08.959 --> 01:18:10.735
well, I don't want to give it away too much,
01:18:10.735 --> 01:18:12.127
in case you want to go and see it.
01:18:12.127 --> 01:18:15.480
But the third one, "The shared experience of absurdity,"
01:18:15.480 --> 01:18:20.384
is actually by the guy who organized those first two.
01:18:20.860 --> 01:18:25.649
So it's more of an academic-style TED talk about, you know,
01:18:25.649 --> 01:18:29.897
why they go out and do these sorts of things.
01:18:30.373 --> 01:18:33.590
Among other things, he describes how bigger the project,
01:18:33.590 --> 01:18:38.052
where people kept getting on without their pants on
01:18:38.052 --> 01:18:39.767
at different subway stops in New York
01:18:39.767 --> 01:18:42.314
and then they filmed the crowd's response to that.
01:18:44.128 --> 01:18:45.904
He talks a whole lot faster.
01:18:46.442 --> 01:18:49.447
His vocabulary, though, is at a fairly accessible level:
01:18:49.447 --> 01:18:52.970
look at that: 98.4% at the 5'000 and below.
01:18:52.970 --> 01:18:54.854
He's talking more conversationally.
01:18:54.854 --> 01:18:58.352
It is interesting that often what we see in TED talks,
01:18:58.352 --> 01:19:00.697
and probably in other ones as well,
01:19:00.697 --> 01:19:03.219
is that the faster the speech rate becomes,
01:19:03.695 --> 01:19:06.733
the lower the vocabulary rate is.
01:19:06.733 --> 01:19:10.671
That, I think. would make a really nice Master's thesis sometime,
01:19:10.671 --> 01:19:12.324
to see if that actually happens
01:19:13.262 --> 01:19:17.231
but just impressionistically, I see a lot of that going on here.
01:19:17.231 --> 01:19:19.856
It doesn't seem to be the case with the next one, though,
01:19:20.609 --> 01:19:23.776
which is, this one is called "Sherman the" --
01:19:24.591 --> 01:19:27.681
"Learning from Sherman the Shark" and it's actually the next --
01:19:29.065 --> 01:19:31.412
I'm sorry, the next two --
01:19:32.396 --> 01:19:33.880
Oops, I mixed myself up there.
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:38.312
So, Number 4 is the one that was at 98.4%.
01:19:38.312 --> 01:19:43.281
So this is by Liza Donnelly who's a New York --
01:19:43.281 --> 01:19:45.113
a New Yorker cartoonist,
01:19:45.113 --> 01:19:47.757
in fact actually the first woman to do --
01:19:48.433 --> 01:19:50.675
to be a cartoonist for the New Yorker
01:19:50.675 --> 01:19:52.744
and talks about that experience.
01:19:54.158 --> 01:19:58.656
Knowing the phrases like "the glass ceiling", which shows up in that talk.
01:19:58.656 --> 01:20:02.313
And then another cartoonist, so we have two kind of related talks,
01:20:04.835 --> 01:20:06.204
finishes that one out.
01:20:06.227 --> 01:20:10.489
I may not go through all these, but you can see the last group is on the brain.
01:20:11.426 --> 01:20:12.925
I have a certain percentage of students
01:20:12.925 --> 01:20:16.718
who are either directly or indirectly interested in that topic.
01:20:17.502 --> 01:20:19.155
So I will go ahead and
01:20:21.046 --> 01:20:23.815
let you all explore that one on your own.
01:20:24.940 --> 01:20:27.964
Vance, I see we're starting to lose people, so --
01:20:30.671 --> 01:20:33.126
>> Stevens: Yeah [missed words check]
>> Hubbard: What would you like to do here? -- yeah.
01:20:33.664 --> 01:20:35.487
>> Stevens: Can you hear me?
>> Hubbard: Yes.
01:20:35.487 --> 01:20:37.780
>> Stevens: Yeah, I guess when we've got to that point about brain
01:20:37.780 --> 01:20:39.833
that sort of faded [check].
01:20:39.833 --> 01:20:42.668
[They laugh]
01:20:42.668 --> 01:20:44.598
>> Stevens: Well, I'll tell you what:
01:20:44.598 --> 01:20:47.824
It's kind of getting towards dinner time here --
01:20:47.824 --> 01:20:50.195
>> Hubbard: Yes.
>> Stevens: And maybe breakfast time for you,
01:20:50.810 --> 01:20:56.206
and I sort of -- I feel like we got two presentations in one, there.
01:20:56.206 --> 01:20:57.659
That's really nice.
01:20:57.659 --> 01:21:00.200
Two discussions, or how we want to put it.
01:21:00.200 --> 01:21:04.325
Well obviously, people are, you know, I mean
01:21:04.325 --> 01:21:08.833
you said earlier that you didn't have time yourself for all this
01:21:08.833 --> 01:21:13.072
but it's -- but you planned to see it in others, you know,
01:21:13.072 --> 01:21:17.238
but by making things open and free and accessible
01:21:17.238 --> 01:21:21.538
and by giving -- by talking about it in various venues,
01:21:21.538 --> 01:21:24.920
face to face, online, you know, you give people ideas
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:26.435
and that's -- that will, you know.
01:21:26.435 --> 01:21:27.196
Now, go ahead.
01:21:27.196 --> 01:21:29.111
>> Hubbard: Right, I will put one challenge out there,
01:21:29.111 --> 01:21:33.530
because I'm -- I'm really interested in this myself,
01:21:33.530 --> 01:21:38.276
because of all the work I do with people outside of Stanford as well,
01:21:38.276 --> 01:21:42.826
who don't have the advantage of the level of students that I have
01:21:42.826 --> 01:21:46.946
in terms of, you know, already being at the TOFL level,
01:21:46.946 --> 01:21:49.485
high enough to get into the university here,
01:21:50.315 --> 01:21:55.715
I would like to see collections that are more targeted at, you know,
01:21:55.715 --> 01:22:00.168
the high, beginning, low-intermediate level.
01:22:00.506 --> 01:22:06.092
And I have had trouble finding clusters of material
01:22:06.092 --> 01:22:07.807
that really do that.
01:22:07.807 --> 01:22:11.171
Again, as I said, when I look at the CLILSTORE material,
01:22:12.063 --> 01:22:14.972
a lot of that, I think, linguistically at least,
01:22:14.972 --> 01:22:18.209
even though it may be tagged at A1 or A2 level,
01:22:18.716 --> 01:22:22.634
isn't really at that level: It may be usable in classes at that level,
01:22:22.634 --> 01:22:23.856
but that's different.
01:22:25.609 --> 01:22:28.058
>> Stevens: Have you -- have your students do this!
01:22:28.058 --> 01:22:32.681
You said that they don't have a lot of time, but still, you know the --
01:22:32.681 --> 01:22:36.202
>> Hubbard: Yeah. Well, if I -- if my students were going to do it,
01:22:36.202 --> 01:22:38.117
they would be doing it at their level
01:22:38.117 --> 01:22:41.582
and it wouldn't be -- they wouldn't be looking for stuff at lower levels.
01:22:42.781 --> 01:22:44.742
And I -- it's just, you know, as we well know,
01:22:44.742 --> 01:22:50.397
you know, the number of people who are at lower levels of English, still learning,
01:22:50.413 --> 01:22:54.110
is much, much greater than those at a higher level,
01:22:54.110 --> 01:23:04.356
Then the value sort of, globally, for a curated collection would be much higher
01:23:04.356 --> 01:23:13.027
if people could find, you know, short -- short pieces that otherwise met those criteria,
01:23:13.027 --> 01:23:17.221
of being stable and freely available and having the -- the language support.
01:23:17.821 --> 01:23:21.654
I don't know to what extent, you know, the CLILSTORE will get there:
01:23:21.654 --> 01:23:23.723
I've only explored pieces of it
01:23:23.723 --> 01:23:28.664
but it doesn't seem to be quite there yet.
01:23:30.663 --> 01:23:34.431
It's great for many other reasons
01:23:34.431 --> 01:23:36.869
and I strongly recommend, if you haven't explored that one,
01:23:36.869 --> 01:23:43.099
that you take a look at it and consider donating to it as well, if you have materials.
01:23:45.620 --> 01:23:50.113
Right, so, I got more people moving on.
01:23:50.113 --> 01:23:52.106
A couple of people are still hanging in here with us.
01:23:52.106 --> 01:23:54.804
Anybody have other comments?
01:24:01.908 --> 01:24:06.386
>> Stevens: Yeah, I'm looking in the text -- in the Etherpad chat.
01:24:06.386 --> 01:24:12.469
The -- I don't know, if someone else wants to make a comment?
01:24:15.468 --> 01:24:20.204
Ah! Peggy makes - points out that there is a separate chat in the hangout,
01:24:20.204 --> 01:24:21.227
and we're not seeing that.
01:24:21.227 --> 01:24:24.064
You know, what [missed words check] tried to do
01:24:24.064 --> 01:24:28.456
is get people NOT to interact in the hangout,
01:24:28.456 --> 01:24:30.682
this doesn't seem to work
01:24:30.682 --> 01:24:32.863
but anyway, I suppose about, you know --
01:24:32.863 --> 01:24:37.995
I was thinking about that when some of the links were posted earlier in the, you know, chat,
01:24:37.995 --> 01:24:43.049
I tried, actually tried to copy them and pasted them into the Etherpad chat.
01:24:43.049 --> 01:24:46.762
Yes there -- we sort of really -- I've been doing this in the Etherpad chat
01:24:46.762 --> 01:24:48.415
so we keep it a little bit together.
01:24:48.415 --> 01:24:53.138
That's one thing I learned from Jeff [missed words check] minute, so
01:24:53.146 --> 01:24:54.568
[Hubard laughs]
01:24:54.568 --> 01:24:57.156
>> Stevens: Yeah, sorry about that, Peggy, we'll try next time.
01:24:57.786 --> 01:25:03.998
I'll probably enforce that. Anyway --
>> Hubbard: Somebody got their finger up.
01:25:04.905 --> 01:25:09.750
>> Stevens: Ah ah.
>> Hubbard [missed words check] [laughs]
01:25:11.742 --> 01:25:13.595
>> Stevens: No, he's got to unmute himself [check] and he's done that.
01:25:13.595 --> 01:25:17.408
>> Hubbard: Ah. OK. Hello!
01:25:17.408 --> 01:25:20.069
>> David [check surname]: Can I -- I can unmute myself.
01:25:20.069 --> 01:25:21.429
>> Hubbard: Hi David.
01:25:23.398 --> 01:25:25.513
>> Stevens: You just muted yourself again.
01:25:25.513 --> 01:25:29.208
You did unmute yourself, now carry on.
>> Hubbard: that's right [check]
01:25:29.208 --> 01:25:34.310
>> Michael: Oh. the line stays through the microphone as though it's muted.
01:25:35.509 --> 01:25:37.809
But it changes from red to black, I guess.
01:25:37.809 --> 01:25:40.569
>> Hubbard: Yeah, I had that problem too.
01:25:40.569 --> 01:25:43.002
>> Michael: That's visuals, Google!
01:25:43.002 --> 01:25:49.979
Uh, so I've been posting a little bit enthusiastically in the Google text chat,
01:25:49.979 --> 01:25:54.165
so you guys may not have seen it, because I don't know where the Etherpad is,
01:25:54.165 --> 01:25:56.542
but who cares, at this point?
01:25:57.388 --> 01:25:59.411
But I just wanted to mention, Phil:
01:25:59.411 --> 01:26:04.319
Helen Young has been a scholar connected with Stanford
01:26:04.319 --> 01:26:07.258
who lives in Palo Alto and is the mother of my brother-in-law.
01:26:08.011 --> 01:26:09.955
I don't know if you've interacted with her,
01:26:09.955 --> 01:26:13.096
but she spent a fair amount of time, you know,
01:26:13.096 --> 01:26:16.695
close to twenty years, maybe, working at Beijing,
01:26:16.695 --> 01:26:22.045
and writing a book about the women on the Long March
01:26:22.045 --> 01:26:25.808
who she interviewed as much older women, you know,
01:26:25.808 --> 01:26:28.513
probably in the 90's and early 2000's,
01:26:28.513 --> 01:26:32.794
which is called "Women of the Revolution" -- "Choosing Revolution,"
01:26:33.363 --> 01:26:35.870
which Stanford University Press published.
01:26:35.870 --> 01:26:38.239
But I did a quick search for her
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:42.311
and although she's not really on the Stanford website,
01:26:42.311 --> 01:26:47.665
there's a link to digital recordings of her interviews,
01:26:47.665 --> 01:26:51.460
complete with translations, and I think, transcripts.
01:26:51.460 --> 01:26:56.709
I -- the -- I don't know if you can open the chat in Google,
01:26:56.709 --> 01:27:00.460
but the -- the link to it I posted there
>> Stevens [check]: OK.
01:27:00.460 --> 01:27:02.973
>> Michael: A number of, you know, 20 minutes ago, maybe.
01:27:02.973 --> 01:27:08.404
But, you know, whether that's a topic of interest to any of your students,
01:27:08.404 --> 01:27:11.848
because it's, you know, interesting historical China stuff.
01:27:11.848 --> 01:27:16.220
But I had no idea that there was actually, you know,
01:27:16.220 --> 01:27:18.949
sound recordings along with the transcripts.
01:27:18.949 --> 01:27:22.466
I'm assuming -- I don't know it they're in --
01:27:22.466 --> 01:27:25.961
I'm guessing they were in Chinese originally, the records --
01:27:25.961 --> 01:27:27.184
>> Hubbard: That would be my guess too.
01:27:27.184 --> 01:27:33.733
Which might make this repository actually valuable to the people learning Chinese here.
01:27:34.563 --> 01:27:36.826
>> Michael: Right, and apparently it's not online
01:27:36.826 --> 01:27:44.084
but somewhere, her papers on -- her research for this project is somehow connected to Stanford.
01:27:44.084 --> 01:27:45.922
>> Hubbard: OK, Well, we have --
01:27:46.691 --> 01:27:49.938
various libraries here have collections of papers
01:27:49.938 --> 01:27:53.714
and it may be that they are inside one of the libraries. I'll --
01:27:53.714 --> 01:27:55.429
So it's Y-A-N-G?
01:27:55.429 --> 01:28:03.871
>> Michael: Yeah. Just Google it and it'll come up with, you know, a link to Amazon for the book.
01:28:03.871 --> 01:28:07.682
But my sister and her kids and my brother-in-law,
01:28:08.266 --> 01:28:14.009
two Summers ago, in the Summer of 2011, were on, essentially a book tour
01:28:14.009 --> 01:28:15.555
for two weeks in China,
01:28:15.555 --> 01:28:22.235
because the original English publication had been translated five years later into Chinese
01:28:22.235 --> 01:28:26.978
and my nephew, who's now a college student,
01:28:26.978 --> 01:28:31.723
two days after his high-school graduation, was, you know, flying to China
01:28:31.723 --> 01:28:33.391
for a kind of whirlwind tour,
01:28:33.391 --> 01:28:38.375
so it was an interesting cultural experience for my sister and her family.
01:28:41.744 --> 01:28:44.462
>> Hubbard: OK. Shall we call it a day, Vance?
01:28:44.462 --> 01:28:47.629
>> Stevens: Let's do and just a point of reference:
01:28:47.629 --> 01:28:50.020
David put some links in earlier,
01:28:50.020 --> 01:28:56.230
so if you scroll up, maybe you can find some of the links that he referred you to. But --
01:28:56.230 --> 01:28:58.958
>> Hubbard: OK.
>> Stevens: -- Well, this is learning together,
01:28:58.958 --> 01:29:01.417
this is typical learning together that actually goes on
01:29:02.201 --> 01:29:04.131
just as long as we want it to. I love that.
01:29:04.669 --> 01:29:09.627
And anyway, it's still December 8, 2013.
01:29:09.627 --> 01:29:16.175
We've been talking with Dr. Phil Hubbard who is a good friend and professor at Stanford
01:29:16.805 --> 01:29:22.417
and director of the English language program there, the ESL program.
01:29:23.140 --> 01:29:27.344
So, well, and he's been telling us about curation
01:29:27.344 --> 01:29:34.466
and how he applies it to a database of TED talks videos and that's really cool.
01:29:35.312 --> 01:29:36.858
So, thank you very much,
01:29:36.858 --> 01:29:39.581
I really appreciate your spending your time with us this morning.
01:29:39.581 --> 01:29:44.380
And I can see that a lot of other people have appreciated it as well.
01:29:44.380 --> 01:29:47.456
>> Hubbard: All right, well, thanks and I hope to see --
01:29:48.256 --> 01:29:50.658
well, I'll see you for sure in Portland
01:29:50.658 --> 01:29:52.219
and I hope to see some of the rest of you
01:29:52.219 --> 01:29:54.747
either there or at some other conference sometime.
01:29:56.284 --> 01:29:57.537
All right, bye bye.
01:29:57.537 --> 01:30:00.201
>> Stevens: OK: my cat says Bye --
01:30:00.924 --> 01:30:04.148
>> Hubbard: Aw, that's cute --
>> Stevens: -- everybody! Yeah.
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[Hubbard and Stevens laugh]
01:30:06.981 --> 01:30:08.942
>> Stevens: OK, well, thanks very much,
01:30:08.942 --> 01:30:13.035
I'll stop broadcasting and we'll leave the hangout on for a little bit,
01:30:14.019 --> 01:30:15.453
just in -- because I want to try and capture some of the text chat.
01:30:15.453 --> 01:30:16.887
01:30:16.887 --> 01:30:18.323
[missed word check] I'll see if that works.
01:30:18.323 --> 01:30:19.869
>> Hubbard: All right, thanks.
01:30:19.869 --> 01:30:21.069
>> Stevens: OK, bye bye.
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(Hangouts On Air)