CSCE Capstone
Student Site for Individual and Collaborative Activites
Team 15 – Cherokee Language Project
Schon is our champion. We partnered with Schon to create an app that students and teachers would love.
He is a local Oklahoma area teacher who is deeply passionate about teaching the Cherokee language and culture to others.
Project Summary
Dialects of the Cherokee language can be found throughout the US. We have partnered with a local Cherokee language teacher to create an app that caters to middle and high school age students learning Cherokee in the Oklahoma-Arkansas region. The Cherokee language is a conversational language and we aim to teach it through story-based games. Users can practice language basics through flashcard repetition. The user will have an option to take a picture and create a study set of flashcards based on the objects detected in that picture. The conversational nature of Cherokee will be captured through a story-based game. As the user completes stages consisting of various educational games, a traditional story from Cherokee culture will be told.
Cherokee has different regional dialects. This is a large reason why we have decided to introduce an app to cater specifically to the Eastern Oklahoma region. There have been efforts to counter the small number of fluent Cherokee speakers in communities throughout the US. Less than one percent of speakers are considered fluent today and re-education efforts from the 19th century have left a lasting impact on Cherokee traditions. Fortunately, there are already many great regional organizations and online materials available for learning Cherokee. This app would be a way to aggregate resources helpful to students learning Cherokee language in Eastern Oklahoma. This app hopes to be an aid to students on their journey and open learning Cherokee up to a wider population. We hope that this app is a useful tool in schools and communities alike.
Tasks
Completed Tasks
- Gain background
1/10/2021 – 1/17/2021 - Develop initial UI
1/10/2021 – 1/17/2021 - Testing 1 – prove flashcard feature works
1/24/2021 – 1/31/2021 - Create stories, questions, and answer options
1/31/2021 – 2/7/2021 - Firebase initialization
2/7/2021 – 2/10/2021 - Implement Firebase retrieval
2/10/2021 – 2/17/2021 - Testing 2 – prove flashcards and story skeleton work together
2/10/2021 – 2/17/2021 - Develop initial story game UI
2/17/2021 – 2/21/2021 - Develop question and answer UI
2/21/2021 – 2/28/2021 - Implement answer validation
2/28/2021 – 3/7/2021 - Testing 3 – Initial User/Blackbox Testing
2/28/2021 – 3/7/2021 - Implement user level/progress functionality
3/7/2021 – 3/21/2021 - Testing 4 – Final user/blackbox testing
3/7/2021 – 3/28/2021
Future Work
- Beta Testing in classroom(s)
- Bug Fixes
- Explore adaptive layouts (e.g. for tablet, web use)
- Add a fill-in-the blank screen (and possibly other mini games)
- Give teachers ability to create content for their classes
- Add a settings page
- Change the difficulty level of questions
- Add audio to questions
- Disable worlds/levels if you havent’t completed previous world/level