Serendipitous searching for graded readers
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Presented at the ICT and Language Education Conference, Kyoto, Japan. October 11th, 2015 http://kyotojalt.wix.com/ict-and-language-ed Searching for a graded reader can be a challenging task for students in an extensive reading program. Student using the MoodleReader View Books Block will find the categories of genre, publisher, and level but cannot determine the number of copies, location, or availability of audio CDs. In contrast, the local library search engine may display the later, but then not have the original categories in the View Books Block. These discrepancies in the categories of the search methods are caused by a lack of metadata for each graded reader. This presentation will demonstrate a Moodle Database Activity as a robust search interface to augment the MoodleReader View Book Block or as a substitute for a local library search engine. The systematic collection of metadata for readers, organization in Google sheets, and importation to a Moodle Database Activity will be demonstrated. The addition of ebooks to the Database Activity will also be displayed with discussion of how to structure an extensive reading program that is both digital and print based. Finally, opportunities for collaboration will be discussed for amassing metadata for readers to share via Google sheets, exported database entries, or a Moodle Hub.
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Editor's Notes
- Current Extensive Reading course layout. 3 ways of searching. Using the MoodleReader Module Reader View Block or the local library HTML Block., or the Book Quizzes interface.
- The Reader View Block from the MoodleReader Module, and a standard HTML block with a simple hack to link to the local school library.
- Issues when searching the library. Different versions and editions are all presented to a student. The student has to navigate to the ‘correct’ entry.
- Example of metadata associated in a library entry. Some info is beneficial while some is incorrect. Note: There is no audio CD with this print copy but the library states there is.
- A similar search via the View Books Block. A student would have to know that Wizard of Oz was an Oxford Bookworms book and also set at level 4 in order to get the search results here.
- Searching via the Book quizzes interface. Students can search via the title or navigate via the publisher.
- Comparison of the metadata displayed via the different ways of searching for a book. The library often has mixed results, as in different book jacket images or other incorrect metadata.
- The idea metadata that would be associated with one book.
- Examples of the resulting fields to support the entry of metadata via a Moodle Database Activity. Note the different functionality of the fields.
- Moodle Database Activity fields continued. Images for books were upload to a public web folder and are therefore accessible by anyone with the correct url.
- A CVS file of one book entry in the format of the previous fields. Each comma stands for a specific field that is first defined in the first line of text. Commas in the book summaries were replaced with “&” to avoid issue with unneeded commas and replaces with commas after import into the Moodle Database Activity.
- The search interface for the Moodle Database Activity. All search fields can be cross referenced. Example of a search using the keyword “magic”.
- All text is searched for the keyword “magic”. See the highlighted text.
- Title text and summary text are both searched for keywords.
- Example of a individual entry with a student comment and Japanese summary. Students could also rate books on a simple 5 point scale.
- Example of an ebook in the same Moodle Database Activity with the PDF available for download. Summaries were copied from the Simple English Wikipedia with live hyperlinks intact. All ebook PDF books were watermarked with the division name and students were made aware about copyright enforcement.
- A different Moodle Database Activity, but based off the original. Contains a test of including open domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg and Librivox. In the example above, students can ‘listen’ to the book before downloading or reading it.
- RSS feed from the Project Gutenberg Moodle Database activity. Fully functional entry exports to email or other RSS readers. Allows updating users about new books.
- RSS feed from the Moodle Database Activity Project Gutenberg. New database entries are displayed in the “New Books!” block. Clicking on the hyperlink with push users directly to the entry in the database.