This document discusses two utility facilities used in French language courses: a wiki and electronic live chat. For the wiki, it describes how the instructor created a free wiki site using Wikispaces and linked it to French language courses on the college's online learning platform to allow students to easily share resources. For the electronic live chat, it explains that the instructor used a free chat service called Chatzy to create a password-protected French language chatroom for students, with the goal of acquainting them with French argumentation and informal language use. The document outlines the instructional purposes of both the wiki and chat as promoting interaction and sharing resources to help students feel more comfortable communicating in French. It also discusses methods

1. Utility facility: Do it free for learnability KWatson, Coastline CC 1

2. Wiki What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed 2 KWatson, Coastline CC

3. Wiki What it is: -- a shared repository of knowledge, data, links (exemplar: Wikipedia) -- an asynchronous source to your own & others’ data, links, etc. -- a simple, freely creatable, customizable place (e.g., Wikispaces) 3 KWatson, Coastline CC

4. wiki What we did: -- used a free easy wiki, wikispaces -- created a Coastline/subject-matter-relevant site: http://ouiquioui.wikispaces.com -- linked the site to Seaport courses 4 KWatson, Coastline CC

5. wiki Why we did it: -- to acquaint students with lamentalité wiki -- to comfort students with French interface -- to permit easy sharing of resources -- to promote interaction 5 KWatson, Coastline CC

6. wiki How results are assessed: -- Obvious methods, from within * quantitative * reportorial, written -- Less obvious methods, from without * E-mail messaging * commenting by telephone, chat, etc 6 KWatson, Coastline CC

7. Electronic live chat (ELC) What it is What we did Why we did it (instructional purpose) How its results are assessed KWatson, Coastline CC 7

8. ELC What it is: Unique linguistic hermaphrodite Speech-like: casual, quick, elliptical, dialectal Language-like: careful, edited, complete Synchronous, communicatively consequential 8 KWatson, Coastline CC

9. ELC What we did: -- used a free easy chat service, Chatzy -- made Coastline/subject-matter-relevant space -- password-protected the chatroom -- linked the site to Seaport courses 9 KWatson, Coastline CC

10. ELC Why we did it: -- to acquaint students with French argumentation (e.g., argument form can have more value than its content) -- to give comfort via anonymous, “faceless” French -- to promote interaction -- to permit easy sharing of resources 10 KWatson, Coastline CC

11. ELC How results are assessed: Obvious methods, “inside” -- quantitative -- reportorial, written Less obvious methods, “meta-” judgment -- E-mail messaging -- commenting by telephone, chat, etc. 11 KWatson, Coastline CC

12. Utility facility KISS Ask for help Look everywhere Use anything and everything Test it yourself! Test it among students! KWatson, Coastline CC 12