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LORO (Language Open Resources Online): a languages repository for DoL. Carmen Tomas on behalf of: Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Annie Eardley, Christine Pleines and Hélène Pulker Region 05 Staff briefing 23 Jan 2009. To create an online repository, based on the Language Box
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LORO(Language Open Resources Online): a languages repository for DoL Carmen Tomas on behalf of: Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Annie Eardley, Christine Pleines and Hélène Pulker Region 05 Staff briefing 23 Jan 2009
To create an online repository, based on the Language Box • Created by the Faroes team in Southampton • It will allow course teams, tutors and staff tutors in DoL easy access to tutorial materials for all languages and levels. Central teams to distribute materials to ALs easily. • ALs to access materials for all languages and all levels. • ALs to store their own materials (and share them with others if they so wish). • Staff tutors to access materials for staff development purposes. • All users to share resources with the Language Box, a languages community repository (http://languagebox.eprints.org).
When looking for teaching materials for my OU group, I… use materials provided by the CT: 89%; use the internet: 73%; create materials from scratch: 95%, use lang. textbooks: 81%, use materials from other ALs: 54% Some interesting results I store my teaching materials… on paper: 1%, electronically: 30%, in both ways: 69% I modify what the OU provides to suit my group. always: 18%, often: 79%, never: 3% I often share my teaching materials. yes: 26%, no: 74%
Future developments • short term goals vs. long term possibilities
Two main stages of implementation • Tutorial materials provided by Course teams are made available on LORO for each course and can be downloaded by ALs • ALs can upload and share their own materials (if they want)
Good evening everyone! The tool and the ALs • Accessing LORO and looking at resources …at LORO (http://loro.eprints.org) but remember this is work in progress! • Discussion (views, experiences, long-term goals)
Accessing materials on LORO • Go to http://loro.eprints.org • Click on your course • Click on the “Resource” you are interested in • each Resource, e.g. L203Unit1Act2_Zimmersuche, contains the documents related to one tutorial activity) • Preview the documents by hovering over them • If there are lots of docs. you will need to click on the arrows to the left or right to scroll • Click on “download” (or “download this resource as a zip” on the right-hand side) • Save the resource onto your computer • If necessary, unzip the zipped file (right click and “extract” or “unzip”) • Upload the wbd or ppt files onto Elluminate
For discussion… • Is LORO a good thing? • What’s your experience so far (if any)? • What’s LORO’s main advantage? • Where would you like it to go in the long term?
Any further questions? Contact FELS-Repository@open.ac.uk Thank you! c.pleines@open.ac.uk