Some ideas for using technology in Language Centers

1. Neny Isharyanti
Technology for Language
Centers

2. Outline
 What is the purpose of the language center?
 What is technology?
 Common Perspectives Toward Technology in
Learning
 Challenges in Using Technology in Timor Leste
 Technology for Language Centers
 Some insights on the technology for language
centers
 Conclusions

3. What is the purpose of the language center?
Maintenance
Preservation Development
Language
Centers

4. What is the purpose of the language center?
Preservation Maintenance Development
• Extinct • Existing • Developed
languages languages languages
• Local languages • National • International
languages/ languages
lingua franca

5. What is the purpose of the language center?
Local languages?
National languages/lingua
francas?
International languages?

6. What is Technology?
“Technology is
the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of
tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems,
methods of organization,
in order to
solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a
problem, achieve a goal or perform a specific
function.”
(Wikipedia)

7. Common Perspectives Toward Technology in
Learning
Technogeeks Technophobes

8. Common Perspectives Toward Technology in
Learning
 Are you a technophobe or a technogeek?
 Let’s take a quiz!
 http://neny.edublogs.org/2012/10/09/are-you-
a-technogeek-or-a-technophobe/

9. Challenges in Using Technology in Timor Leste
 What are the challenges in applying technology
in Timor Leste?

10. Technology for language Centers
Maintenance
Preservation Development
Documentation
Standardization
Dissemination

11. Technology for language Centers
• Compiling language sources
Documentation • Storing the documents
• Grammar
Standardization • Dictionary
• Language competence assessments
• Publishing documents on languages
Dissemination • Providing language and cultural courses

12. Technology: which to choose?
 tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, met
hods of organization
 Objectives vs. Tools

13. Objectives vs. Tools
Personnel
Technology
Policy
Objectives

14. Technology - Internet
 Computers
 Hardware
 Software
 Internet
 Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
 Dialogues between providers and users
 Syndication, Aggregation, and Mashup

15. Documentation
Syndication Mashup
Collection and and
finding Aggregation Collaboration
organizing blending

16. Collection
New Existing
• Blog • Google search
• Website • Multimedia
• Wikis • News
• Google Drive • Pinterest
Collection

17. Syndication and Aggregation
Del.icio.us Technocrati
Google
Bloglines
Reader
Syndication

18. Mashup and Collaboration
Google
Blog
Drive
Mashup
and
Collaboration

19. Standardization
 Dictionary – corpus linguistics
 Language Competence Assessments – online
assessments

20. Dissemination
 Blog – Wordpress, Blogger
 Websites – Google Sites
 Social Networking Sites – Facebook, Twitter
 Databases – PHP
 Software
 Resource Centers – internet-enabled
lab, accessible materials online and offline

21. Conclusion
 Objectives, objectives, objectives
 Technology will follow