Pilot project to digitize audio, visual, and spiraled web interactive materials for the teaching of first year Yiddish (GRMN 4

Grant Details

Amount: $2,000.00

Project Start Date: 01/15/06

Status:

Project Type:

Languages: Yiddish

Project Level:
Beginner

Project Skills:
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing

Institutions Involved:
University of Pennsylvania

Primary Contact:
Kathryn Hellerstein (khellers@sas.upenn.edu)

Germanic Languages and Literatures, 745 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia , PA 19104-6305
Phone: 215-898-7103

I propose a pilot project to develop web-based materials to enhance the teaching of Yiddish language at Penn. I hope to hire a student worker to begin the process of editing media files and perhaps text files, to upload them to the media server, and to link these files to Blackboard, as well as to help me develop language assessment tools, threaded discussions, and other communication tools on Blackboard for first year Yiddish, GRMN 401/JWST 031 and GRMN 402/JWST 032.