Octavio Flores
Wesleyan University
oflores@wesleyan.edu
Presentation Title
Reading "Garabatos"
Proposal Abstract
The goal of this presentation is to share and evaluate students' and instructors' reactions about a short story before and after a multimedia version. The project, "Garabatos, is an annotated version (Guided Reading) of a short story written by Pedro Juan Soto, a Puerto Rican author. The audio component of this project has looked for the reproduction of linguistic characteristics of Puerto Rican Spanish phonetically duplicated in the story. The visual annotations have focused on cultural references about the Puerto Ricans in the United States.
Levana Polate
Wesleyan University and Trinity College
lpolate@trincoll.edu
lpolate@wesleyan.edu
Levana Polate has a B.A. in Hebrew literature and philosophy and a Master's
in Judaic Studies. Teaching Hebrew at Trinity and Wesleyan, Levana has created
twelve CTW multimedia projects with six completed.
Presentation Title
Language and Cultural Enrichment Through Technology
Proposal Abstract
The use of computers to enrich the teaching of languages is
currently attracting increased interest as a creative way to engage
students. One example of a recently completed project, "Sheer
Lashalom" (Song for Peace), includes background, glossary, digitized
reading of the poem, as well as the digitized melody and a video
segment of relevant historical events (Itzhak Rabin singing Sheer
Lashalom at a peace demonstration moments before his assassination).
Other projects using similar multimedia technology include
annotations of the first two chapters of Arie Lova Eliav's true story
"A Ship of Immigrants". These projects aim to make materials
accessible to students with a wide range of backgrounds and
abilities, allowing them to develop listening, pronunciation,
orthographic and grammatical skills in ways that are both
linguistically supportive and historically informative.
De Bao Xu
Hamilton College
dxu@hamilton.edu
Associate Professor of Chinese, Ph.D in Linguistics from U of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1991, research interest lies in
theoretical linguistics, Chinese historical linguistics, and language
pedagogy.
Presentation Title
Developing Multimedia Software for Chinese Language Teaching
Proposal Abstract
Supported by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, De Bao Xu and Hong Gang Jin have been using Macromedia Director (6.0) to create Chinese multimedia materials since 1993. With one CD ROM, Chinese Breakthrough-Learning Chinese Language through TV and Newspapers, published in 1996, they are focusing on developing beginning and advanced Chinese teaching materials. De Bao Xu will demonstrate two 1.3 GB software developed for their Chinese language teaching. Each of them has over 150,000 pieces of media of interactive video, audio, graphics, animation, traditional and simplified Chinese texts being linked together. The demo of the software can be downloaded at:
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/eal/ChineseSoftware.html
Jeffrey Schneider
Vassar College
JeSchneider@vassar.edu
Jeffrey Schneider works on militarism and masculinity in German
culture around 1900. He has taught all levels of language, literature
and culture; many of his courses use MOOs, the Web.
Co-Presenter1
Silke von der Emde
Vassar Colleg
vonderEmde@vassar.edu
Silke von der Emde has published on GDR literature and film. She also
has extensive CALL experience, including drills, Web projects and
MOOs. Teaching areas include gender, international studies.
Presentation Title
Virtually There: Language Learning through Cross-Cultural Student Projects in the MOO
Proposal Abstract
This presentation will report on the results of using a MOO (an
on-line synchronous text-based virtual learning environment) to
co-teach Intermediate German at Vassar College together with
colleagues at the University of Münster. For our course we
developed a German-language MOO, called MOOssiggang, with powerful
educational tools.
Working in the MOO allowed our students to engage in authentic
communication in the target language and meet with native speakers on
a regular basis. The MOO as a discussion space functions as a hybrid
between programming and writing fiction. Our students therefore
developed their own virtual culture and constructed this space in the
target language, and then work on projects with German partners, such
as comparisons of German and American educational systems,
immigration, national stereotypes, multiculturalism, and music.
Mary Morrisard-Larkin
College of the Holy Cross
mmorrisa@holycross.edu
Mary Morrisard-Larkin is the Director of the Self-Paced Language
Program at the College of the Holy Cross. While she is currently
developing technology-based materials for Spanish students, she has
also taught French and ESL.
Co-Presenter1
Elizabeth
O'Connell-Inman
College of the Holy Cross
einman@holycross.edu
Elizabeth O'Connell-Inman is a Visiting Instructor of Spanish at the
College of the Holy Cross. Her current research interests focus on
independent language learning and the integration of technology into
the language classroom.
Presentation Title
The Role of Technology in Self-Paced Spanish Instruction
Proposal Abstract
This presentation will describe a language program which allows
intermediate-level Spanish students at the College of the Holy Cross
to work independently and personalize their language learning
experience. The curriculum is organized around a set of learning
objectives, which are based on the different components of
traditional Spanish courses and include grammar, vocabulary and
culture as well as skill-based instruction. The courses designed for
this program are delivered to students on the World Wide Web and
class assignments are taken from both traditional and computer-based
materials. The technology-based materials are essential in these
courses because they can provide learners with the immediate feedback
that they typically would receive in the classroom. The Internet also
makes it much easier to monitor and communicate with students who are
working individually.
John Anzalone
Skidmore College
janzalon@skidmore.edu
Professor of French
Co-Presenter1
Viviana Rangil
Skidmore College
vrangil@skidmore.edu
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Co-Presenter2
Charlene Grant
Skidmore College
cgrant@skidmore.edu
Visiting Lecturer of Spanish
Presentation Title
Pedagogy, Methodology and Design of CALL Lessons
Proposal Abstract
This panel will consist of three presenters from Skidmore College--John Anzalone
(Professor of French), Viviana Rangil (Assistant Professor of Spanish), and
Charlene Grant (Visiting Lecturer of Spanish). Based on the panelists' experiences
developing and implementing CALL activities for several years, they will demonstrate
segments of a variety of X-Media Engine template lessons in French and Spanish.
The focus of the panel discussion will be: 1) the pedagogy and methodology that
motivated the development of the lessons; 2) the challenges of implementation
in three major areas: a) facilities, b) students' willingness and experience
with technology, and c) technical support; and 3) the variety of expected and
unexpected results in terms of student motivation, reactions and language output.
Cindy Evans
Skidmore College
cevans@skidmore.edu
Cindy Evans directs the FLRC. She holds a Ph.C. in French (University
of Washington) and is currently doing dissertation work for a Ph.D.
in instructional design (University at Albany-SUNY).
Co-Presenter1
Mary-Beth O'Brien
Skidmore College
mobrien@skidmore.edu
Mary-Beth O'Brien teaches German language, culture, literature and
cinema. She holds a Masters and Ph.D. from UCLA. Her primary area of
research is Nazi cinema.
Co-Presenter2
Shirley Smith
Skidmore College
ssmith@skidmore.edu
Shirley Smith teaches Italian language and literature at Skidmore.
She has a Masters in linguistics from Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. in
Italian from Harvard.
Presentation Title
Outcomes and Assessment of Multimedia Courseware: Implications for Design
Proposal Abstract
A panel of three presenters, Mary-Beth O'Brien (Associate
Professor of German), Shirley Smith (Associate Professor of Italian),
and Cindy Evans (FLRC Director & Acting Mellon Grant Manager),
will discuss issues related to outcomes and assessment of technology
in the curriculum. Professors Smith and O'Brien will present some of
the X-Media Engine template lessons they have created and implemented
in their language courses, highlighting expected and unexpected
outcomes in student performance. They will elaborate on the ways in
which outcomes have affected the design process as they continue to
develop technology enhanced course materials. Cindy Evans will
outline the assessment measures used to evaluate various aspects of
the Mellon grant at Skidmore, with an emphasis on the challenge of
assessing the effects of technology on student achievement.
Dierk Hoffmann
Colgate University
dhoffmann@mail.colgate.edu
Proffessor of German.
Research Interests: Textology, Methodolgy of Language Instruction
(CALI)
Project Title
The Teacher Across The Ocean-->E-Mentoring and E-Colaboration
Proposal Abstract
Video conferences (e.g., with PictureTel) as well as the Web with
its chat opportunities, discussion forum, and NetMeeting functions
allow teachers new ways of intra- and inter-institutional
collaboration. The challenge is no longer a technological but an
organizational and curricular one.
The project Joint Learning Across the Ocean --now in its second
year--has at its core a collaboration between the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, and Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York. It is sponsored by a grant from the
Mellon and the Kade Foundations. The various components of the
project are:
(1) Joint Learning and Teaching
(2) Visitors Via Satellite
(3) Languages Across the Curriculum/Tandem Learning
Xiaomao Zhu
Wesleyan University
xzhu@wesleyan.edu
Presentation Title
Conversation Drill with Echo
Proposal Abstract
I have produced conversation drills for our new first year Chinese
text-book. We use Echo for students to do the drills. Hopefully this
will help our students to overcome the obsticles in Chinese tones and
pronunciation. I'd like to present it and get suggestions and
feedbacks from my colleagues.
Gloria Bien
Colgate University
gbien@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and
Literature, Colgate University
Co-Presenter1
H. Lin Dimizio
Connecticut College
hldom@conncoll.edu
Lecturer, Department of Chinese and Japanese, Connecticut College
Co-Presenter2
Michael Westfort
Connectitcut Colleger
mdwes@conncoll.edu
Specialist in Instructional Technology, Information Services
Presentation Title
Panel Title: Libra and HyperStudio: Pedagogical issues, implications, and future directions
Proposal Abstract
The three panelists will collaboratively discuss their rationale,
experience, and experimentatl results concerning the use of Libra
templates, HyperStudio, and other applications to create materials
for teaching and learning of Chinese. The presentation involves
topics, such as: (a) technical issues and mixed results that surfaced
from two-byte-character writing in certain templates, (b) pedagogical
issues and implications drawn from Libra templates, and (c) a report
of experimental findings derived from student feedback, collected
from consortium campuses, and from stage-by-stage evaluations by a
Specialist in Instructional Technology. In addition, the presenters
will demonstrate portions of their technology-enhanced project
originals and elicit suggestions from the audience for future
directions.
Mary Louise Ennis
Wesleyan University
ML.Ennis@aya.yale.edu
Mary Louise Ennis (PhD, Yale) has been teaching French at Wesleyan since 1991.
She has published on gardens, forbidden books, fairy tales and Internet-based
literature courses.
Presentation Title
"Web-ifying the FL Literature Classroom"
Proposal Abstract
E-mail, newsgroups, treasure hunts, final project websites.... How
can computer based communication and the Internet enhance the foreign
literature classroom? What advantages do "web-ified" courses have
over "traditional" literature classes? In what ways must classic
teacher-student paradigms be reassessed when using such pedagogy?
Learn how one Mellon recipient found increased peer learning,
responsibility and creativity to be a few of the "Net gains" when
courses live beyond classroom time and space.
Geoffrey Atherton
Connecticut College
gath@conncoll.edu
Geoffrey Atherton is currently an assistant professor of German at
Conncecticut College where he teaches language, culture and
literature at all levels.
Presentation Title
Exploiting the Web for Language Learning and Reading
Proposal Abstract
These two projects represent an attempt to use the multimedia
capabilities of the Web for foreign languages both in a language
course and in a literature course. The first project, in addition to
placing the course syllabus, assignments and other resources on the
Web, also seeks to design tasks in which the students negotiate the
Web in German for materials to be used by themselves and others in
the classroom. The second project uses the Web to aid students in
their reading and comprehension of literary texts. It examines the
technical and pedagogical difficulties involved in placing a
lengthier text on the Web.
Tek-Wah King
Connecticut College
tkin@conncoll.edu
Lecturer in Chinese at Connecticut College since fall 1994. Primary
teaching duties include Intermediate and Upper Advanced Chinese.
Co-Presenter1
Maria Montzolis
Connecticut College
mjmon@conncoll.edu
BA French, Anthropology, 1996 Connecticut College Audio Visual
Assistant 12/95 - 5/97 Conn College Foreign Language Specialist
9/97-present Conn College
Co-Presenter2
Michael Westfort
Connecticut College
mdwes@conncoll.edu
Michael Westfort has been involved in multimedia and instructional
technology development for the past eight years. He is currently
serving as an Information Fellow at Connecticut College.
Presentation Title
Macromedia Director and Its Application to Chinese.
Proposal Abstract
This panel will start with an introduction of Macromedia Director
as an authoring tool--its capabilities, its "time-based" authoring
environment, and the model and process of its instructional design.
Following will be the demonstration of the pilot lesson of a
Director-based study enhancement program accompanying the
upper-advanced-level Chinese textbook _A New Text for a Modern China_
and the discussion of how its interactive functions can be
effectively executed across the conncoll.edu domain with the set-up
of the Digital Media Server on the Conn campus. Also to be analyzed
of the program include its pedagogical as well as technological
design such as two-bite character display, phrasal highlighting,
audio streaming, feedback recording and collecting, etc.
Irina Aleshkovsky
Wesleyan University
Proposal Abstract
There are two projects ready for demonstration.
A. The Prisoner of Caucasus
This is a HyperCard based program. It was developed in order to help
students master the Russian Verbs of Motion. It is based on the
original story by Leo Tolstoy. It is used by the Second Year Russian
course. It could be also assigned as independent study for anyone
having difficulty with these verbs.
B. Russian Poetry Web Page
This page was an effort to use digitized sound meaningfully, not just
copying an audiotape, which is an excellent teaching aid in itself.
Students have unlimited access to a web page where they are able to
read the text of the poem, read cultural and historical notes, and
literary criticism on the poem, see the portrait of the author, have
biographical notes about him/her, etc. , all of it while listening to
the poem as many times as they find it necessary.
Andrei Strukov
Colby College
astrukov@colby.edu
After many years of teaching, I began to experiement with technology, first
with Libra and now with web pages. Now I teach and develop.
Co-Presenter1
Chris DeLucia
Bowdoin College
cdelucia@bowdoin.edu
Am finishing my ph.d. in Chinese and continuing to expand my skills
as a developer
Proposal Abstract
We will demonstrate three Russian programs that have been
developed at CBB Mellon. Information about the programs and how to
get a copy is available at:www.colby.edu/lang.tech/russia
Greg Struve
Bates College
gstruve@bates.edu
I'm a techie supporting language teachers and having a great
time!
Co-Presenter1
Chris DeLucia
Bowdoin College
cdelucia@bowdoin.edu
Proposal Abstract
These two Spanish projects available on cd-rom show the detail in
facts and images that is available through multimedia to language
students to help them understand dramatic materials. These programs
were the stipend projects of Marie Barbieri of Bowdoin College and
Baltazar Fra-Molinari of Bates College
Francois Weaver
Trinity College
francoise.weaver@trincoll.edu
Proposal Abstract
This is a demonstration of a web- based vocabulary manual intended
for an intermediate conversation class: "Spoken French: Current
events" The course is designed for students who want to be informed
and keep abreast of current events in France and want to develop a
high level of proficiency in French.
Dario Del Puppo
Trinity College
dario.delpuppo@mail.trincoll.edu
Dario Del Puppo is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and
Literature at Trinity College. His research is on 14th and 15th C.
Italian Literature and on the poet, Giacomo Leopardi.
Presentation Title
Virtual Authenticity: Teaching Book History with Computers.
Proposal Abstract
Exposure to primary sources and historical documents helps students of history
and literature to think critically about the production and circulation of texts
and information. It also gives them a sense of the importance of authenticity
to the human experience. How can the computer help make us better students of
literature and history? Besides preserving fragile documents, the computer can
enhance our understanding of traditional print media. After briefly describing
a course on the history of manuscript and book culture that Dario Del Puppo
has taught, he will give a demonstration of one of the computer-based student
projects. These projects were intended to enhance students' awareness of the
many editorial issues of re-presenting a text on line. His aim in this presentation
is also to show how the computer can be used to integrate historical perspectives
with humanities laboratories and workshops that deal with the science and technology
of manuscript and book production. He will emphasize the language based study
involved, what worked and what didn't, and seek ideas and opinions from colleagues.
As part of this discussion, I wish to assess the applicability of this instance
of computer-based pedagogy to other courses.
Giuliana Palma
Trinity College
Giuliana.Palma@trincoll.edu
Co-Presenter1
Elena Fossa
Trinity College
Elena.Fossa@trincoll.edu
Presentation Title
Preparing to go to the TC/Rome Campus
Proposal Abstract
The purpose of this program is to enhance the study abroad experience of all
students through computer related activities that will provide the students
with the opportunity to acquire more background knowledge pertinent to studying
abroad and will foster a broader connection between Trinity College and the
Rome Campus.
Giuliana Palma and Elena Fossa propose to concentrate on the cities of Rome,
Florence, Venice and Naples: Rome is where the students live for about four
months and the other three cities are the ones the students will visit on field
trips organized by the program.
They will provide students with the following material:
- background information about the cities and their regions;
- pre-departure questions to spark students'curiosity and stimulate a
more inquiring attitude on their part.
Ted Sicker, Executive Producer for WGBH Interactive, a division of WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston.
Plenary Session Title
Producing a Multimedia Foreign Language Experience: from Vision to End Product
Ted Sicker has been responsible for the production of educational interactive multimedia projects at WGBH for over twelve years, providing concept development, curriculum design, and editorial oversight, in addition to coordinating the efforts of content specialists, graphic designers, programmers, and video producers.
His recent production include the World Wide Web sites for A Science Odyssey and Africans in America, Nuevos Destinos , a video and CD-ROM for Spanish language study, and 2001:A Science Odyssey, an exploration of the digital television data and multicast environment. His earlier productions include the Interactive NOVA science videodisc series and three history videodiscs.
Ted has served on the Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks Advisory Committee. Earlier in his career, he taught high school social studies and a variety of other subjects. He received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.S. in Education and Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Presenter1:
Mao Chen
Skidmore College
Mao Chen, Associate Professor of Chinesetea, teaches Chinese language, literature,
culture and cinema. Her current interests include May Fourth legacies and the
debate over the postmodern in contemporary China.
Presenter2:
Hedi Jaouad
Skidmore College
Hedi Jaouad, Associate Professorª@of French, teaches French language, literature
and Francophone literature. He has published extensively on Francophone Maghrebian
literature and is a regular contributor to CELFAN Review.
Presenter3:
Masako Inamoto
Skidmore College
Instructor of Japanese, teaches Japanese language and culture.
Presentation Title
Computer Assisted Learning Materials for Non-Western Language and Culture
Proposal Abstract
A panel of three presenters, Mao Chen (Associate Professor of Chinese), Hedi
Jaouad (Associate Professor of French) and Masako Inamoto (Instructor of Japanese)
will present some of the CALL materials they have created for Non-Western language
and culture course.
The following lessons will be presented using X-Media Engine Templates and Libra:
1. Chinese time phrases for scheduling.
2. A poem by L-S Senghor from Senegal.
3. Japanese passive sentence and location nouns.