OER Master Creator - Badge application (Responses)


49	With the help of Sonja Burrows, Instructional Designer at Middlebury College, I developed my digital language-learning grammar games collection, French Grammar Games for Grammar Geeks, to help students of French review and practice their grammar skills. The site also provides grammar reviews, both in French and in English, and in many cases supplemental grammar exercises. This was first designed for my own students but eventually became an open educational resource with a CC BY NC SA license, both for the site and all documents. This a mobile-friendly website built with a full installation of WordPress. The games were created using a simple, free plugin called H5P, which enables the development of games for a variety of purposes. Additional games were created and embedded using Quizlet, a primarily lexical-set-orientated language-learning tool which enables users to practice with virtual, audio-supported flashcards and games. Images were either hand drawn or downloaded from Unsplash, "The internet's source of freely-usable images," with attribution. The site is divided into three sections: Sentence Whiz, where the user plays games about questions, negations, relative pronouns, and other sentence structures; Word Nerd, where users can find games about nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions as well as additional parts of speech; Verb Challenge, where users can practice moods and tenses. In addition to these 3 sections, we created a guide for the learning space where users who do not know where to begin or who would like to complete games in an established or recommended path can find support to do so. And finally, we also added a resources area to the site where users can access the documents. We then linked relevant documents to games which treat the same grammar points, so that users who complete a game and seek more practice or grammar explanations can easily find the support they need. We also designed a navigation and filtering system on the site so that users can select games which only treat a certain grammar point, if they so choose, by embedding each game into a post, tagged on the back end to be filterable. While the site is still under construction, more than half of the sections are completed and new games added daily. This is a sample of the feedback I received from users of the site: "I love grammar games" - "thank you ... for creating such a useful website" - "Excellent! So helpful to anyone learning French and struggling with word order in sentences. Merci beaucoup"

With the help of Sonja Burrows, Instructional Designer at Middlebury College, I developed my digital language-learning grammar games collection, French Grammar Games for Grammar Geeks, to help students of French review and practice their grammar skills. The site also provides grammar reviews, both in French and in English, and in many cases supplemental grammar exercises. This was first designed for my own students but eventually became an open educational resource with a CC BY NC SA license, both for the site and all documents. This a mobile-friendly website built with a full installation of WordPress. The games were created using a simple, free plugin called H5P, which enables the development of games for a variety of purposes. Additional games were created and embedded using Quizlet, a primarily lexical-set-orientated language-learning tool which enables users to practice with virtual, audio-supported flashcards and games. Images were either hand drawn or downloaded from Unsplash, "The internet's source of freely-usable images," with attribution. The site is divided into three sections: Sentence Whiz, where the user plays games about questions, negations, relative pronouns, and other sentence structures; Word Nerd, where users can find games about nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions as well as additional parts of speech; Verb Challenge, where users can practice moods and tenses. In addition to these 3 sections, we created a guide for the learning space where users who do not know where to begin or who would like to complete games in an established or recommended path can find support to do so. And finally, we also added a resources area to the site where users can access the documents. We then linked relevant documents to games which treat the same grammar points, so that users who complete a game and seek more practice or grammar explanations can easily find the support they need. We also designed a navigation and filtering system on the site so that users can select games which only treat a certain grammar point, if they so choose, by embedding each game into a post, tagged on the back end to be filterable. While the site is still under construction, more than half of the sections are completed and new games added daily. This is a sample of the feedback I received from users of the site: "I love grammar games" - "thank you ... for creating such a useful website" - "Excellent! So helpful to anyone learning French and struggling with word order in sentences. Merci beaucoup"