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**Teaching Prosodic Phonology to Distance Learners: Using** **The Dropbox** **Technology Tool for a Dialogic and Interactive On-line Learning**

By

**David Kabugo**

**(kbdav001@uct.ac.za) ** **(kabugodavids@educ.mak.ac.ug) **



**Introduction**

This is an individual electronic portfolio, designed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of an On-line Learning Design course (EDN5101S 2011) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The course requires of us to design and implement an on-line learning intervention, with regard to our own institution's pedagogical and socio-cultural contexts, and to coherently explain the entire process, including both the practice and the theory underpinning our designed on-line learning activities.

Thus, this e-portfolio is an extensive reflection of the entire design, and the development process of an e-learning intervention, which I have specifically designed to address the mobile learning needs of my Language Education students on a Distance Learning Program at Makerere University in Uganda.

This portfolio slowly, but steadily scaffolds you into three major phases of the design process of my On-line Learning Activity (OLA). As put forward by Dabbagh & Bannan-Ritland (2005), these phases include; Exploration, Enactment, and Evaluation. For the purposes of comprehending this e-portfolio, I have first presented an introductory section about myself as the author designer of this activity, and later made a detailed reflection on this activity. Where as at the exploration phase, I have presented the context, the audience, the content, learning theory, and the on-line learning design model of this intervention, at the second phase, I have given a detailed overview of the actual instructional strategies that are in congruence with the underpinning learning theory, the objectives, and the actual design of the instructional activity, and the appropriateness of the the choice of technology tools of this intervention (Dabbagh & Bannan-Ritland, 2005:134). At the last phase I have presented an evaluation strategy, the instrument, data and the discussion of findings which were collected during students' interaction with this on-line learning activity. Please click on the links provided in the sides of this electronic portfolio to proceed.

**Reference:** Dabbagh,N., Bannan-Ritaland, B.(2005). Instructional Strategies and their role in designing authentic learning activities for on-line learning. Online learning: Concepts,strategies and application. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.


 * **About the Author** || Exploration || Enactment || Evaluation || ** Reflection ** ||