April 6, 2000 at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Jamie Rankin is a Senior Lecturer in German at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. He has published both in the area of second language acquisition and literature, and is the author of "Wie geht's? interaktiv", a CD-ROM program for beginning German to provide customized video, audio, image, and text for language tasks integrated with a first-year program.

March 29, 2000 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer in French at MIT, is author of the award-winning propgram "A la rencontre de Philip". At Wesleyan, she will present her newly released CD-ROM program,"Dans un Quartier de Paris", which allows students to explore a French cultural space and "Cultura", a Web-based program designed to develop cross-cultural comprehension. She will focus on the novel ways in which multimedia technology helps students discover and explore diverse cultural notions. She will show videotapes of students in class and highlight the role of the teacher.

February 25, 2000 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. This symposium, sponsored in part by The CTW Mellon Project for Language Learning and Technology and The Learning Technology Project at Trinity, was organized to discuss the role of technology in academia. The complete program of this symposium is available online.

December 16, 1999 at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. At the TechFair, many commerical software products designed for use in the foreign language classroom were presented. Click here for a brief description of these products and links to their homesites.

October 6, 1999 at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. This Satellite Videoconference was the first in a series of events planned by Heinle and Heinle to bring together some of the most creative teachers and groundbreaking researchers in the field. Among the topics discussed were:

• The emerging foreign language paradigm
• The role of technology
• Teacher/Learner roles
• The National Standards

May 24-26, 1999 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. This conference has been organized as a forum to explore the present and future uses of technology to enhance language instruction in the New England liberal arts colleges involved with Project 2001. The complete description of this conference with the program is available online.

April 23, 1999 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. At the TechFair, many commerical software products designed for use in the foreign language classroom were presented. Click here for a brief description of these products and links to their homesites.

Saturday, February 13th, 1999 in the Rittenberg lounge at Trinity College. The colloquium started with presentations by Robert Blake from the University of California at Davis, Dorothy James from Hunter College and Randall Jones from Brigham Young University. Presentations were followed by a Panel discussion that included Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Timothy Vance, Krishna Winston and Nina Garrett as the moderator. The program is available online. The colloquium was videotaped and is available for loan upon request. Please contact the Technical Specialist on your campus (Steven, Emmanuel or Marisa) for assistance.

Saturday, December 5th, 1998 in the Electronic Classroom at Trinity College.
Presenters included: Lin Dominzio, Mary-Lou Ennis, Levana Polate, Catherine Ostrow, Rieko Wagoner, Françoise Weaver, Zaira Rivera, Ana Pérez-Gironés, Steven Smolnik and Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret.

Thursday, November 20, 1997 at 5:00 p.m. in Fisk 302 at Wesleyan University. The topics were RTA (Remote Teaching Assistant) and Nuevos Destinos. The talk was followed by dinner in Downey House.

Presenters included: Lin Domizio, Tek-Wah King, Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Seiji Naito, Giuliana Palma, Ana Pérez-Gironés, Michael Roberts, Yoshiko Samuel, Steven Smolnik, Tim Vance, and Melissa Vogelsang. Robert Davis of Smith College was a special guest. The presentations were videotaped and are available for loan upon request. Please contact the Technical Specialist on your campus (Steven, Emmanuel or Marisa)  for assistance.
 

Tuesday, April 22, 1997 at 4:00 p.m. in the Language Lab at Connecticut College (Blaustein 102)
This talk was videotaped and is available for loan upon request. Please contact the Technical Specialist on your campus (Steve, Emmanuel or Marisa)  for assistance.

Thursday, December 5, 1996 at 4:00 p.m. in the Macintosh Lab in MCEC at Trinity College.
This talk was videotaped and is available for loan upon request. Please contact the Technical Specialist on your campus (Steve, Marisa or Emmanuel) for assistance.

Tuesday, November 12, 1996 at 4:00 p.m. at Wesleyan University in Fisk 211
This talk was videotaped and is available for loan upon request. Please contact the Technical Specialist on your campus (Steve, Marisa or Emmanuel) for assistance.