Video Testimonials

Video 1: Campus and community collaborations

In this video, Dr. Dubreil describes four interdisciplinary projects that he was able to accomplish through collaboration between students, other units on campus, and/or community partners. Use the time stamps and descriptions below to pick one or more project to learn about, then consider the questions that follow.

  • min. 5:30 Students collaborate with a local organization, City of Asylum, which provides housing to endangered artists in exile. They create an augmented reality tour of and a place-based game about the neighborhood.
  • min. 8:00 Students work with the university’s Entertainment Technology Center to create a place-based game about Pittsburgh called Voxalburgh that focuses on underrepresented communities and promotes language and culture.
  • min. 11:14 Students on a study abroad program use augmented reality and place-based gaming to reflect on their experiences abroad and create activities for students who couldn’t go abroad.
  • min. 12:31 Various units on campus collaborate to create an app that provides multilingual campus tours for visitors who don’t speak English.
Name: Sébastien Dubreil
Position: Professor
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Languages Supported: French
Years of Experience:  22

Reflective Questions

  1. What are the advantages of the cross-campus and cross-community endeavors Dr. Dubreil describes? What challenges do these kinds of endeavors pose?
  2. Is there a need on your campus or in your community that could be solved through collaboration with partners beyond the language program?
  3. What lessons, ideas, or initiatives can you take away from the project or projects that might be useful in your institution? How?

Video 2: Program advocacy

Name: Katherine Brooke
Position: Assistant Professor of Practice, Spanish Foundations Director
Institution: Texas Tech University
Languages Supported: Spanish
Years of Experience: 10

Reflective Questions

  1. List the campus resources Dr. Brooke took advantage of in the endeavor she describes. Are there comparable resources at your institution?
  2. How would you describe Dr. Brooke’s advocacy efforts? Is there anything you would have done differently?
  3. What lessons, ideas, or initiatives can you take away from this example that might be useful in your institution? How?

Video 3: Resolving conflicts
 

Name: Christopher Smith
Position: Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
Institution: University of Florida
Languages Supported: Japanese
Years of Experience: 18

Reflective Questions

  1. With which aspects of the conflict Professor Smith shares can you relate? What similar experiences have you had?
  2. Professor Smith cites cultural differences regarding hierarchies as the source of this conflict. Are there other areas that may have led to the miscommunication?
  3. How would you have handled the conflict? What other outcomes could have been possible if Professor Smith had responded differently?
     

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