 Our first talk, we have two in this session. The first one is a first year Korean OER project called You Speak Korean, one and two. And our presenters come from several universities. As I was saying, this is a collaborative project. Iwan Cho from Penn, Emily Curtis from Western Washington University, Mi-Jung Kim from Wash U and St. Louis and Angela Lee Smith from Yale. So, thank you for being here and we're ready to hear you tell us about You Speak Korean. Do you hear me? Okay. Yes. Okay, and did you see my screen? All right. Welcome to our You Speak Korean OER project presentation. I am so happy to share our collaborative project today. My name is Hewan Cho and then together with Emily Curtis, we will briefly introduce our collaborative project to develop an open resource on Korean language textbook and relevant to nutrients on behalf of the author and presenter team. So first, Emily will introduce the You Speak Korean series and how this project was coined in this new normal era. Emily? Okay. Great. I'm probably preaching to the choir, but just some points on the new normal era. One of the first hits I get online for internet search on new normal is this 2020 article from the UN stating that the new normal is digital. So we know that. And suggesting that because most education is now forced online by the pandemic. Well, that's maybe old news, but anyway, this is suggesting that world language education's new normal is also digital, it's online, and maybe we can add at least eventually, it's gonna be open access. So some other bits and pieces that Wikipedia says that new normal, the term denotes a behavior or state that is atypical, but becomes baseline following a crisis. And the term has been used that way for decades in psychology. But for me, 2020 has taught me that a societal new normal does not need to have negative connotations that we can embrace this new normal, digital new normal, even if it started as a coping mechanism and that we can build something better as the new normal. And I personally have seen that digital online distance learning is better in some ways from having chat as a back channel during a Zoom class to integrating online videos and memes and hey, how about online textbooks? In fact, the term new normal, the digital revolution, OER, none of these are new because of the pandemic, they've been around. We all know that the older generation has been complaining about TV viewing and video gaming for decades. And that screen age became this digital age. And now really around the world, most people have a cell phone and are connected through cell phones. And youth culture is so shaped by things that are reliant on the internet, that functions on the internet. So we are thoroughly engulfed in a digital era and where we do everything online. And so really the new generations of our students are quite ready for online educational resources. In terms of Jedi, still back one, in terms of Jedi, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, as long as we can ensure internet access, then this distance learning that we've been practicing, making use of online educational resources is making education accessible to more people, more diverse student bodies who don't need to arrange childcare or find transportation or make living arrangements near a school. Online materials can be more inclusive of diverse populations who are participating in conversations online. We can integrate those and open access materials, sorry, online materials are gonna be less expensive than hard copy textbooks. And when we make those open access, then there's no cost burden at all. So OER is gonna help us reach the Jedi goals as well. And the last point I'll make is just how much more practical it is to have educational materials online. That these digital online materials, they're allowing flexibility and responsiveness that print materials never could. New editions of textbooks took years to come out, took a lot of work and a lot of environmental resources as well. And then there was a cost to the students. And so when we put it online, this is really relevant for language teaching because language changes really quickly, really quickly along with internet communications. It changes really quickly and we need our world language textbooks to be very responsive to that language change and the societal realities that it's reflecting. So we have to be able to edit and update our online materials really quickly and online materials, digital materials allow us to do that. So with those ideas in mind, we got really excited to add our YouSpeak Korean series to the available OER resources that are out there. So Suhee Kim and Haewon Cho and I met in graduate school and we came together and wrote and then released our first YouSpeak Korean book in 2002. At that time, there were not many Korean language programs that made a distinction between heritage learners and novice learners with no background in the language. And there weren't really materials for those novice learners either. So we wanted to create textbooks that would be very, very thorough, assuming no background and provide step-by-step learning and also integrate active learning strategies that were employed in many other world languages. So we wanted really updated Korean language materials. So we wrote and self-published our full color textbook series, self-published, and they were very well received and quite successful for our student learning. But it was tricky being self-published and we had students and colleagues as well that really wanted them to reach a wider audience. And that then came the Korean wave and K-pop fandom and just explosions of interest in the Korean language alongside explosion in social media use, online everything and in OER. And I think this was all pretty unhindered if not unleashed during the pandemic that we need all of those things online. So the time was absolutely ripe if not overripe for you speak Korean to go online. And dear colleague, Hye-Won Cho, spearheaded this project that she will now explain. All right, thank you. So as Emily spoke, this second edition is being written for a while and we wanted to make the second edition more accessible and then by the opposed language educators and then students. So we'll just say that the biggest motivation comes from the fact that we wanted to reach out more people and then who want to study or teach the Korean language in the classroom learning or on their own. So let me briefly show that it consists of two parts. First one is a textbook and second one is that practice material. And each of the contents of the travel chapters by including topics that are highly relevant to our Gen.D learners. And then the book one manuscript is complete and then is currently compared to OER platform right now. So I'll briefly guide you through the book. So first one is like we begins with those lesson focus and then each chapter begins with this lesson focus and warm-up activity with a discussion point and a short model dialogue. And then it moves to the vocabulary section that comes with the Quizlet link. So students can visit the Quizlet site to listen to the audio and practice using plastic cards and play games. And students can also take the test after the practice. I think this is a beauty of the OER platform that you can incorporate those readily available resources as a part of the students practice. And then pronunciation guys, vocabulary note. And then vocabulary exercises come with the vocabulary list. Next one is a recipe that means like this section offers a key grammar structures and expressions. Along with these exercises to develop students' communicative competence using the given structure. Next one is the Let's Cook. This is a really interesting section that are classroom tasks but they can be also used as a asynchronous task to give students the opportunity to practice and integrate all the modules they have learned so far. And then it consists with those interpretive, interpersonal and presentation and mode of communication tasks. And each task can be used for informative and summative assessments. So here's the example. So listening or market speaking also it also has some presentation part. Then students are guided to the Korean flavor where we present language points and culture note. And then students can have the opportunity to deepen and expand their understanding of the Korean language and culture. So another, the advantage of it is OER platform. For example, here students can just click on the find the more culture names in Korean and they'll be guided to the Google Korean site and then read all those culture names in Korean. So we can put a lot of links there and then they'll be guided to the online resources. Finally, students have the opportunity to practice on their own and then also engage in these integrative performance tasks. So left side, you will see that they get traditional work performance but on the right side, students have these different interaction and then also several practice tasks that they can work on and produce the language in an authentic context. So how to apply those materials online to the classroom setting. So this is the step-shot of the lesson plan that I have. So students start from this distance reader chapter and then learn the practice new vocabulary using Quizlet and watch lesson videos and complete the Zoom quiz before coming to the synchronous meeting on Tuesday. And then those classroom materials mostly come from the OER materials that we have. And then students review Rainforest and further extend what they have learned by engaging in these integrative tasks. So that's an example of some of the materials here. And more importantly, this is certainly takes a village to develop and build this YSK OER site. So I'm happy to report that this project is a collaborative effort from these wonderful language educators who teach Korean and linguistics in community schools, private colleges and public universities. And then I also would like to thank our and dedicated student workers who created all these wonderful artwork and put materials together to our website. And then this, we have received small grants but without those grants you would not have been able to put up this much materials on the website. And then I also thank our librarian, digital scholarship librarian at Penn Library who are offered a pen press note that the press book platform for this project. And then also currently this YSK project the textbooks are used at Penn and Boise State University. And then we have received extremely positive feedback from our students. So future directions, we try to finish converting our new manuscript to the online format by the end of this year. And then we would like to add more interactive practice materials if possible. Book three and book four, you would like to continue on this very important and meaningful endeavor in the future. And we are still looking for the grants and the support. So that's all I have right now. And then if you have any questions, let me know. Thank you. We have about one and a half minutes left for questions. It looks like there's one in the chat. So how does one access this set of textbooks? Good question. So we have constructed up to chapter seven and set the three right now. And then we will gradually add more chapters. I think it takes the most time to finalize the format of the chapters on the OER platform right now. And then since we just finalize the format then we will add more chapters later and make that available. Maybe we'll send a link to the URL and then post that link to the color website. So students are getting a link from their instructors. Yeah, so once it's complete, we will make sure that it is visible in the field.