Presenter: Jeff Magato Date: Thursday, October 17 • 10:50am - 11:50am
In this presentation, we will introduce the latest version of our open-source software, A National Virtual Language Lab 3.0. ANVILL is a web-based tool that has morphed from being primarily an A/V recorder for speech-based lessons into a multifaceted app that enables the creation of content-rich interactions for both mobile as well as desktop devices.
We’ve been working on this genre of software for a while—ANVILL is now more than 12 years old. This latest version re-imagines the tool for pedagogical contexts that are almost always hybrid, frequently online, and always reliant on a learning management platform of some sort.
Its streaming media engine has been built from scratch (currently on AWS) to be both globally responsive and affordable. And most importantly, its user interface and functionality have been re-designed to take advantage of the knowledge gained from listening to hundreds of language and humanities teachers about how they use ANVILL.
Our goal for this presentation is to both introduce the many new features of the tool but also to use feedback from a discerning audience like NW eLearners to gauge how well we’re meeting expectations for a next generation, language-focused tool.
One of the innovations of the software is a seamless weaving of ANVILL’s strengths as a media tool with the interactivity provided by the software suite known as H5P. The combination means that speech or video and responses of all types can co-exist easily on a page. Task types are easily distinguished, can be simple or complex, and feedback is informative and usually immediate. Materials can be scaffolded and differentiated, recorded, and reported back to the LMS.
Collectively we should all leave with a better understanding of what language faculty are looking for in modern speech-based software, and how developers and instructional designers working with them and their learners can best respond to their needs.
Shorter abstract
In this workshop, we will learn to use the latest version of the free and open-source software, ANVILL 3.0. This new version, rebuilt from the ground up, is optimized for pedagogical contexts that are fluid (F2F-hybrid-online) and for teachers who have very little time for authoring. One innovation is a seamless weaving of ANVILL’s strengths as a media tool with the interactivity of H5P apps. The combination means that speech or video are no longer stumbling blocks as input or output tasks, and that content of all types can co-exist easily on a page.
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