NMC2009: Good! ¡ Bien! ¡Ütz! - Maya Language Learning from Guatemala to Tulane
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Good! ¡Bien! ¡Ütz! Maya Language Learning from Guatemala to Tulane Marie Carianna Derek Toten
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Presentation for the New Media Consortium's 2009 "Five Minutes of Fame"
Transcript of NMC2009: Good! ¡ Bien! ¡Ütz! - Maya Language Learning from Guatemala to Tulane
Good! ¡Bien! ¡Ütz!Maya Language Learning
from Guatemala to TulaneMarie Carianna Derek Toten
OverviewU.S. Department of EducationTitle 6, National Resource Center
Origins
Promote the study of Less Commonly
Taught Languages ofLatin America
Originsgrants awarded2003 & 2005
Spoken in the Guatemalan highlands,
Lake Atitlan region
Kaqchikel Maya
Since the 1980s: six-week Kaqchikel Maya language and cultureimmersion course
Dr. Judie MaxwellTulane Linguist &
Cultural Anthropologist
Oxlajuj Aj
Q’anil• Self-paced, Flash-based language-learning
environment to teach Kaqchikel Maya
• Produce in Guatemalawith native Kaqchikelspeakers
• Design for duallanguage instruction:English and Spanish
Content configured for CD-ROM and online deliveryhttp://ekaqchikel.tulane.edu (site active in late July 2009)
Production• Production trips to Guatemala each summer
• Post-production & application design in spring & fall
• Produce FOUR modules• TWO complete• ONE “in the can”• Complete project by
2011
FOUR person production team• TWO pedagogists• Fluent in Spanish• Work with teachers• Plan and script content
• TWO videographers• Production & staging
logistics• Video/audio post-
production
Crew
• Edit two-camera, HD footage using Final Cut• Compress final video as Flash FLV files• Bring two teachers to NOLA for additional audio
Post-Production
• Design Flash-based interface, and incorporate video, audio & images
• Captionate for Kaqchikel sub-titles
