Streamed Interactive Video Materials

Grant Details

Amount: 2185.00

Project Start Date: 04/01/05

Status: Completed (Currently Active)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Applies to some languages

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:
All - Addresses all language skills

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Andrew Ross (Andrew_Ross@Brown.edu)

Box 1935
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-7010 (Office)

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Secondary Contact:
David Kanig
David_Kanig@Brown.edu
Same as primary contact.

Project will enable the Language Resource Center to acquire software and equipment for creating, editing, and distributing video materials for instructional purposes.

An Interactive Pronunciation Tool For Chinese

Grant Details

Amount: 9520.00

Project Start Date: 06/15/05

Status: Completed (Currently Active)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Chinese

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Lung-Hua Hu (Lung-Hua_Hu@Brown.edu)

Box 1850
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-9765 (Office)

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Secondary Contact:
Andrew Ross

Andrew_Ross@Brown.edu

The project will produce a software program for developing the pronunciation of Chinese vowel sounds. It will feature interactive graphic and audio functions designed for the first year student, but useful for advanced learners as well who are interested in honing pronunciation skills.

Digital Audio Kits

Grant Details

Amount: 4450.00

Project Start Date: 02/01/04

Status: Completed (Currently Active)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Applies to all languages

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Andrew Ross (Andrew_Ross@Brown.edu)

Box 1935
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-7010 (Office)

This proposal seeks funding to purchase four mobile digital recording kits for the Language Resource Center at Brown University to be used for the production of language learning materials. It is envisioned as the second phase in a larger project to produce and distribute language learning materials and cultural content in several less-commonly taught languages via web broadcasting.

Audio-Visual Materials for Study Abroad Website and Intermediate Chinese

Grant Details

Amount: 2230.00

Project Start Date: 02/01/06

Status: In Progress (under development)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Chinese

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Lung-Hua Hu (Lung-Hua_Hu@Brown.edu)

Box 1850
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-9765 (Office)

This project will serve two purposes: the first one is to provide audio and visual components of my new website for study abroad in China, the second to provide materials for my second new project of developing audio-visual supplementary materials for CI 30/40 (Intermediate Chinese). These materials will include still images and sound files. In order to gather materials, I will need to make multiple trips within China and Taiwan.

Integrating Multimedia in Fourth Year Chinese

Grant Details

Amount: 2300.00

Project Start Date: 03/01/06

Status: In Progress (under development)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Chinese

Project Level:
Advanced

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Lingzhen Wang (Lingzhen_Wang@Brown.edu)

Box 1850
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-7092

With funding from this grant I will travel to China in the early summer and purchase recent, feature-length films with scripts, documentaries, TV series and commercials in DVD format for use in a restructured fourth-year Chinese course. Clips from selected titles will be selected for mounting on the Web-CT web site for the course, to be streamed using Video Furnace. The scenes will be glossed with the Chinese film script and linked to selected vocabulary items. The selecting, glossing, and posting to the web site will take place during summer.