The idea of this training program emerged based on the actual need of the Program in Global Languages and Communication (GLC) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The main purpose of the program included offering the program's faculty the instruction in how to teach live (synchronous), self-paced (asynchronous), and blended (hybrid) online courses/programs in translation and interpreting. The program was also aimed at providing clear, simple guidance on how to teach interpreter/translator professional ethics, standards, protocols, practical interpreting skills, addressing communication barriers, and more in an online medium.
This part of the portfolio contains several examples of the e-Learning materials I created for the Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online professional development program, including an e-Learning training mini-course built in Articulate Storyline 360, two instructional videos prepared with the help of Zoom and Adobe Premiere Pro/Adobe Premiere Rush, respectively, and a branching scenario activity created with the use of BranchTrack.
Below it is possible to see the screenshots of several parts of the self-paced e-Learning mini-course about advocacy in community interpreting, which I created for the Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online training program using Articulate Storyline 360. The module contains both step-by-step explanations and the activities related to the topic of the module, including a drag-and-drop activity, a one-person and two-people scenario-based activities, a quiz, a knowledge check, and a reflection activity. Combining the necessary explanations and the above-mentioned activities should allow learners/trainees to improve their understanding of advocacy in community interpreting as well as enable them to develop their practical skills and problem-solving abilities connected with the highly controversial topic of this training mini-course.
A One-Person Scenario-Based
Activity
Brainstorming & Problem-Solving
Step-by-Step Explanations
Part of a Knowledge Check
An instructional talking head video
An instructional video
for self-paced e-Learning
A Scenario-Based Online Activity
Here you can see the shots of a few screens from the scenario-based problem-solving online activity "Customer Simulation" which I designed with the help of BranchTrack. The purpose of this activity was to show the trainees from the Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online program an example of an interactive online role play. They were then asked to create themselves a similar role play for practicing interpreting in bank settings as well as for learning how they could effectively use scenario-based activities, role plays, and simulations in their own future work with students or trainees online.
The scenario tells the viewers the story about a lady's international transactions and the related financial issues with her credit card bills. Throughout the story displayed in this scenario, the lady is trying to overcome her anger and the related negative emotions while striving to figure out on the way what she wants to do next (for example, to change the credit card company, etc.). Finding the best solution(s) to those financial issues with the lady's credit card bills, despite any obstacles encountered by trainees in the process of participating in this simulation, is the main idea of the customer simulation itself.
Even if, at the beginning, it looks like resolving those issues will take that lady some time and effort, by the end of the simulation, participants realize that it could still be possible to find the viable solutions to her financial problems discussed in this scenario-based activity.
Scenario Prompt