 All right, let's go ahead and get started with session seven. Again, just to remind you where this is room B. And our next talk is entitled Innovative OER for Spanish ELL writers. And our speakers, Susana Rodriguez from Excelsior College and Lori Aldrich also from Excelsior College. So you guys have the floor, take it away. Thank you so much, Carl. Thank you and hello to everyone here. We are thrilled to be a part of this weekend's conference, Lori and I. As Carl mentioned, we both work at Excelsior College, which is a fully online fully accredited college that provides degrees in nursing business technology and criminal justice as well as some a variety of liberal liberal arts. We also have degrees. We also just included a new cybersecurity program in our, in our technology field, but we're fully online and we have students from all over the world. Many of our students are in the middle of their lives and they're going back to school to change careers or to take a shift. But our students are fully online. So OER is something we are very fond of and something that we feel very passionate about. And we also at Excelsior have something for the writing world that we are really proud of. We have, I'm going to share my screen in a minute, but we have an OER called the Excelsior OWL. OWL stands for Online Writing Lab. As I mentioned, I'm going to showcase it in a minute and we just recently created a program called Adelante for students who are trying to reenter or enter for the first time. The higher education world who speaks Spanish, whose aim is to finish their degree in English. These students come to us if they are entering and they need to take a few semesters worth of courses in both Spanish and English in order to get where they want to be. They can do that. If they want to hit the ground running and take their courses in English, they can do that too. But most of the students that we expect to be admitting into this new program at Excelsior will be mostly fluent in Spanish and wanting to conduct their academic lives in Spanish. And so one of the things that we did in anticipation of this program is we had our OWL website translated into Spanish and it was a very, it's a large undertaking. Lori and I have both been working on it together because as you'll see in a minute, our website offers both text and video as well as some H5P interactive lessons in which the students can answer questions and get us for. We had a lot of hands on translating that we've had to do it to make sure that the translation machine effectively did as because as you all know machines don't always translate very well. So I'm going to share my screen. Let me make sure I'm sharing the right one. Hang on one second. Before I do, and as I do, so I'm going to introduce both me and Lori in a in a more thorough way than I have done. I just want to make sure I'm remembering to share sound as I do this. So everyone tell me by nodding your head, can you see our Excelsior OWL online writing lab. Yes. Yes. Okay, great. Thank you, Carl. So, before you jump in our plan is to talk for about 15 or 20 minutes. And we hope to have we when we present on the owl, which only recently became a Spanish resource for folks. We often have lots of questions so we want to save at least 10 minutes at the end for questions but before I jump in and explain a little bit more about the owl I want to talk about how the owl came to be. Our team currently consists of three people. So I'm the director of the writing center. It's a virtual writing center it's not an actual place that people can come like in many colleges brick and mortar colleges but it's a virtual writing center and we offer writing to tutoring. And we also have this owl resource this online resources that as you'll see in a minute is very stupid enough in its in its offering. In my background, I've taught writing in a variety of ways for the last 30 years or so. I started as a high school English English teacher. I spent much of my career being a professional editor. Living on a teaching salary is not easy in this country so I found ways to augment that and it always ended up back with teaching people how to write. That's my passion. I've added a couple of sections to the owl since joining Excel here about two years ago. And Lori is my partner on the owl. She is the magic behind what makes the website function and live and breathe. If a link is broken Lori knows how to fix it. She can't fix it she knows who to contact, which is Mark the person below her. But she's really the person that makes sure she keeps tabs on the owl she makes sure it's functioning the way it should as you all know having OER resources sometimes requires a lot of background support and she really gets the credit for providing all of that. If we add a new page, I write the content but we always talk together because Lori always also has an eye for accessibility in mind. So she always she corrects me if I write a sentence says something like for more information on this click here and she'll tell me well you can't say click here because that's not good for a reader for somebody who can't actually read themselves. So she's got a really lovely perspective on accessibility. And then Mark, who is the our current he's sort of the IT guru we like to call him the IT guru at Excelsior he can stick. When the websites go down he's there to make sure they go back up and in the background he's there to make sure they stay alive and functioning on a day to day basis. So, going back to our homepage for the owl. The owl in English offers writing resources for students in everything from soup to nuts, as I've already said so if you need help and just brushing up on your grammar, you can find that under grammar essentials. If you're a graduate student and you're at a new school and they require MLA and your former school required the Chicago manual style, you can come here and find how to figure out how to format your paper properly that you need all the requirements. If you are getting a degree in something that isn't a traditional liberal liberal arts topic and you need support and figuring out how to do that, you can come to our writing in the discipline section and figure out about how to write in specific subjects. We hope to add more subjects to this section but right now we offer a menu option of business, health sciences professions and also nursing all of which are degree programs at our college. So we're already proud of what we offer students and by the way we have people we have instructors and students, literally across the globe who use this OER and we're really proud of it. But with the advent of Adelante and our admission of students into the program, who are Spanish speakers now and who need help and support now in Spanish. So we have this new feature up here in the upper right hand corner, you can switch from the English version of the owl over to Spanish just by clicking right here. And this is the thing we're here and mainly to talk about today. So one of the things that makes this website distinctive and unique is that it really offers. All of the same resources that it offers writers in English, who speak in English and can write in English fluently already, but in Spanish, but it's all geared toward learning how to write in English so as many of you know I'm seeing some names on the attendee list. Those of you who write and speak Spanish, especially academic Spanish you know that the conventions are somewhat different, and the things to pay attention to in terms of grammar are very different. One of the things that we have at Excelsior is all incoming students have to take a course called the cornerstone course. And the cornerstone course sort of takes meet students where they are. And the aim of the course is to both teach them about Excelsior and how things work and function at Excelsior, but also kind of give them a really kind of boots on the ground remediation and academic writing and academic higher higher education skills that you need for your college career. And where this cornerstone points to in most of its courses are these two sections in English this is called the writing refresher. The grammar refresher and the APA refresher because it excels here we use across the board we use the APA manual for style. So, one of the things that Lori and I have worked really hard on in this section is some of what makes our OER kind of fun for students is we have we use a lot of H5P presentation. It's taking a minute to get to to open up this next page, but these what you see down here all of these. This is in text citations references formatting and style, but in Spanish. So all of these H5Ps have been translated into Spanish so if you're a student, going back to school and your native language is Spanish but you have to figure out how to format your paper. If you're an APA in English, you can come here. And right here is the English page seventh edition is the most current edition of APA, but if you click over here, it brings you to the same presentation but in Spanish. We also try to make a point of talking about how not all conventions are going to be the same in English as they are in Spanish, but this is an example of the kind of presentation that students who write in English can go through and now we've updated it so that students who write in Spanish can go through. This is our index page talks about all the different kinds of needs a person would have how to site, how to punctuate why and where to site, how to site a personal communication like an email all of the things can be found here and if you speak Spanish you don't have to worry about looking at the English H5P. You can just come to this presentation. We also have questions that precede the following lesson. But just ask things like why or how would you use the Latin phrase at all when you're writing, when you have a in and text citation. And all of these questions are also interactive so you choose an answer. This bar down here means check your answer. Oh, got it wrong. I'm going to try again. And there's always an explanation for why the answer is wrong or why the answer is, is right. You can click try again. I'll choose another one. We got it right. This one doesn't explain why it's right but we got it right because we punctuated properly we put the comma in the right place to put the question the quotation marks in the right place, and the period in the right place. And it goes through all of these different, the various different layers of how to do in text citations. It's important to APA. There are also presentations on references, the references page how to format it as you all know it's very. It's very, you have to pay attention to all the rules and some, some instructors are stickier than others but if you get it wrong it can affect your grades and these things are all really important. Before I showcase the grammar refresher which Lori wants to talk about a little bit. I also want to show you something that we have if I go back to, well actually I'm going to stay on the Spanish site. One of the things that makes our site kind of fun that we're really excited about going back to APA formatting. If you go, some of the pages have videos. So one example of that is, if I click on in text citations and APA, it brings me back to the page this, this video is actually in English, but what we've added is closed captioning in Spanish. So when I press play which I'm going to do in a second, you'll see the experience that the student will have, in which case he or she is hearing the video in English, while the slides are being shown, but seeing on the screen, the closed captioning in Spanish which we feel is a good instructional tool, so that the person who's trying to learn English can hear the native English, but if they need the support, the Spanish closed captioning is below. If you don't mind, I'm just going to play a couple of seconds of this so you can see how it looks and how it feels. This short video will focus on the basic setup for in-text citations in APA format. It is first helpful to get an idea about why in-text citations are important and when they should be used. In APA, you should use citations in parentheses within the text to let your audience know when you have borrowed information and where that information has come from. Most students know to cite direct quotes, but it is important to remember you must also include in-text citations for summarized and paraphrased information. You are not just citing words, you are citing ideas. For more information about what kinds of information must be cited within your text, be sure to review the avoiding plagiarism tutorial in the Excelsior OWL. So this is just a sort of sampling of the kind of resources that the Spanish site offers. We're really proud of being able to provide both the video content where the student can hear the English because for the Adelante program at Excelsior, our goal is to get students functioning in their writing and in their speaking of English fluently. But even someone who isn't in our program who is still trying to learn how to format or how to write or speak or all of the above in Spanish can come here and these sorts of interactive H5P resources will be helpful in supporting that effort. Going back to- Before you go back, may I interject? Of course. Also that I think that is fabulous that we've done is we have a transcription of video on all of our video pages so that the students can read through it. And what I love too that we've done is that sometimes there are things on the screen in the H5Ps and the videos that is not necessarily auditory, but it's important for the understanding. So we've tried to incorporate that as well into the transcriptions. So I just thought that was a nice piece of information to know that they're there. Absolutely. And thank you for that, Lori, because going back to what I was saying about your skills, Lori, in terms of always having accessibility in mind, some people do better by being able to read. Some people do better by being able to hear and some people do better by being able to see and we kind of have all free in these kinds of, in these videos and these resources. So thank you for interjecting that. I'm going to turn it over to you in a second. Lori. So going back to what we were talking about about our cornerstone course in the very first course that the Adelante program will take in Spanish includes links to our grammar refresher as well as our APA refresher. And we are in the process of getting all of the H5Ps translated, as some of you probably can emphasize with, it's hard to talk about super esoteric concepts of grammar in a smooth and comprehensible way when you're using a translation machine. So Lori and I have been going through and reading everything and making sure the translations make sense. And the way we talk about grammar in English is a little bit different from the way one talks about grammar in Spanish. So for example, our presentation on apostrophes, they don't, you don't really see apostrophes in Spanish, but we use them a lot in English in different situations. So we've translated our presentation, our H5P, into Spanish. And we make a point of saying this refresher or this lesson will teach you about using apostrophes in English. And bear with us. We're going to walk you through a lot of different things. And Lori, I'm going to pass the torch to you. I will be happy to drive and I will click on any of the slides that you want. But you take it away and tell us about what you love about these kinds of presentations. Okay, so one of the things before we even click off this slide that I love is that with H5P and forgive me that I get a little excited with technical things. And H5P lets you build these things with the shell, meaning in English, we'll have English words like check. And in Spanish, you'll have if you hover over like the print button or the forward button. All of them are in Spanish. And I love that. And H5P actually lets you do that with 42 different languages. So we love this because it helps the user to feel more comfortable. And I love it because I think that user, the interaction with the user is super important for me. And if you were to go to, and what I also love is that H5Ps, we have a creative common license. So as long as you cite, you can use this and embed this in your course or wherever you want to use it. And so, you know, it's there and I love that. And also, I think that Nan, actually, I must get further credit for making this so that so individualized for the Spanish learner, because, as Nan was saying it's so different for apostrophes in Spanish, as in they don't use them and in English. So if you want to go through to the question, if you could, thanks. What we've done is all of the questions that we've built, and this is a slideshow presentation in this type, we have the questions are all in English, because that's what the students, that's what we're teaching right how to use apostrophes in English. We want to make sure that it's not a difficult thing for the, we want them to be able to focus on the apostrophes not necessarily of what the sentence means so we have the Spanish translation afterwards. And then the questions are in Spanish, and then all of the feedback that they get are also in Spanish. This helps the learner to be able to focus on the content, and not necessarily on the having to comprehend what we're talking about what can focus on the apostrophes themselves in this. Also, since we're on this slide, as Nan said, I'm, I'm thinking to accessibility so one of the other things that we've made sure to do is that as we were building this, all of the pictures it's really important to have all texts, and all of the images you can't see it now because she's hovering over it but if you were to be using a screen reader, all of the alt text is in Spanish for our Spanish H5 piece. And I think that's important because if you are a Spanish learner but needed to use a screen reader you needed something else you would want, you would hope that a Spanish presentation would be have Spanish assistance. So if you try to think about all of the different ways and all of the different types of learners and be very focused and detail oriented on trying to make sure that we have a lot of these things covered for our users. So to the point I think if you were to go to the last slide actually right after the last slide, the final right after that. So the last one is a gives you the score that you've taken so see you can see that she did the first question, she has the total there, and then all of the side titles and the question titles are in Spanish. That way, hopefully that'll be an easier trigger for help to help them remember which the question, what the questions were and what they did. I believe the answer to that last question I decided yes it can be embedded into canvas. So, oh I'm not seeing the chat. Oh there's a lot of chat. I just happen to see that one. So, yes, it can be embedded into canvas, you just have to give us a very brief creative comments 4.0 attribution and then you can use, you can embed videos you can embed whole pages one thing I didn't mention at the beginning is in our. I think it's, I forget if it's an educator resources, you can create a custom thing called an outlet where if you're an instructor of writing and you have ELL students to speak Spanish you can pull different pages from different parts of our website into your own, what we call a custom outlet. And then once you have that you can use that in your courses, or if you prefer you can embed, you can just embed specific pages wherever you like. This is totally as as the OER definition would would describe it's free. And you can find it on the creative comments website, but I can also happily send it. You can come in 4.0 at the bottom here. If you go to the website it will take you and it was there's just a sentence you have to write using certain words wording, and then you've given us attribution and you can, you can reproduce or use whatever we have. You can even take what we have and rewrite it that's how free the licenses. Lori am I missing anything in that regard. Okay, it's super open super easy to use. We've had people all over the world right to us and double check with us is it okay. Yes. Yes, it's okay. Just make sure you use attribution and, and we're super excited when people like to use our contents. I'm seeing and we are we do love it when people use it, and I'm seeing Naili's comment. We worked really hard and just so you know in advance, not every page has been proof read yet so I go in and I proof read and I try to make sure that the translations actually work, and that was especially when they're translating idiomatic English. They're not doing it word for word but they're capturing the meaning of whatever the idiom may have been. If you ever find an error feel free to, to email us and tell us you didn't do such a good job on that one we may have just not gotten to it yet. Yes, we are always open to suggestions Alejandro, trust me there are we know there are typos we know there are mistakes. I'm trying to scroll through. I think it's a question for what level do you use the resource but I can say it's, I think it's fair to say that this can be used by high school classroom and ESL instructors all through higher ed graduate or bachelor's degree in graduate school level. We have, because we only had 30 minutes we didn't have time to showcase every single page but we have the writing process. It's a basic form from just figuring out what you're going to write about brainstorming activities, figuring out what voice to write in figuring out who your audience is. We have a whole section on research, and all the various different stages of research, all the pages have been translated in Spanish. Again, we've talked about we have citation and documentation, the three main academic style guys. We have a section on rhetorical styles and why we need to know about rhetorical styles and writing. We have a very extensive section on argumentative and critical thinking translated into Spanish. We have a section on writing on doing online writing it whether it be social media or a blog, or an online presentation. We have pages on all of those. We have a basic, we have a more thorough description of grammar and how grammar works in English, which as we all know is a tricky beast. How to avoid plagiarism, we have a section there. Writing academic writing 101 so this takes students who are just back to the classroom and college and they need a refresher on how do I get my mind out of texting my best friend and back into academic writing. We have a section that I showed and on the English page writing in the disciplines, and then back to where we are here. And I see a lot of messages have come through. Yes, I was wondering is that we have about five more minutes if it up to people seem to want to interact with you. Great. And I, and probably just tell you how wonderful this is and thank you so much for opening it up to the rest of us. I think that the LED you want to tell them what your thought what you're thinking about in terms in terms of Spanish translation. I do like I'm my I like you blow my mind like it's really really nice word that you're doing I'm so happy that you're opening up and so many times I teach heritage speakers, Spanish translation into Spanish and I always thought that it was necessary to have this kind of research for Spanish and I see a lot of potential I, I, I honestly do think that this is very very helpful because I always, you know, my rubrics always. I would some points for students who really respect the citation style and, you know, not the most of the word but I always value you know the students are able to have that kind of attention to detail. I really applaud and commend you for this is really great. And it also makes me think of so many, and you know, questions that I think of when I'm teaching for Spanish speakers because I'm not trying to, I teach I'm not trying to reinforce their English I'm trying to reinforce their Spanish. So, while I recognize this is an excellent bridging research for them to produce academic writing in Spanish, I think that it would be also great to help them, you know, reinforce the Spanish skills in academic writing in Spanish. So, I don't know what I think it is complicated because as you said in your presentation the conventions are very different but do you see any potential for going into that direction and adapting this material for students who also want to reinforce their academic writing in Spanish. That's an excellent question. We've been having lots and lots of conversations at Excelsior about two other things we really want to try to do in that perfect world where we have an extra day in the work week. One of the things that's on the docket for our next project for the owl is to create a section that is specific to specific to Spanish speaking speaking students who are doing both Spanish and English writing that supports both. In order to be able to translate the h5p that I just showed you I bought the API guide in Spanish so I could make sure I knew how academic academic admissions in Spanish actually say really weird things like hanging in that for other esoteric academic language that I might not be able to translate off the top of my head. We do want to build that we were in major talks with the rest of the college about being able to try to support that, although as you can probably also understand we're really focusing on the Alante program for our students who are coming in trying to learn English, but I hear you, and I want you to know that yes, the answer is yes, but we're not sure when or how long it will take to get there. It's nice to see you. I find that your picture came up to the top now. We only have a minute left. I'm wondering if anybody else has constructive feedback or questions. Here's one question in the chat about how you created the interactive slides. Lori, do you want to answer that one. Yes, if I may. So we have a h5p if you, if you were in the English site and welcome Spanish site to but in the top right section. So the first part is a thing about h5p what h5p is, and what it does. And we have that integrated with the owl, and these are all h5p. So in h5p, you can build the slide presentations, you can put videos, you can build just interactions with just questions like a question set. You can see brilliant. You can build sliders that are shown before and after pictures or flashcards or there's so many things that you can do with h5p and it's brilliant, and it just integrate so I build all of the content that you saw in h5p. That's the name of. Well, um, that takes us. We are right on time. I want to thank both of the speakers today. This is the owl is a really impressive website. I love how you've thought about accessibility issues. And of course the design issues it looks very easy to navigate and as the other speakers have said I think are commented. I think that people and in heritage Spanish, because it's, it's aiming at a higher level they're going to be very interested in this so I see this as really a winner for a lot of different people who are going to be very happy to find out about this so we'll do our best to spread the word. Thank you guys so much, and