February 2000. Makers is a web application created by Dan Beeby to create interactive lessons and exercises. (Click here for the documentation on Makers)
 

October 1999. Karaoke is a HyperCard application created by Claire Bradin. It allows for the easy creation of dialogues to practice listening comprehension and pronunciation. (Click here for the documentation prepared for the workshop)
 

Lisa Frumkes offered this workshop in September 1999. (Click here for Lisa's documentation)
 

A series of four workshops/discussions were led by Nina Garret (Yale University) during the academic year of 1998-199.
    1) Issues in second-year language courses
    2) Distance learning
    3) Grant proposal writing
    4) FLAC
 
 

PowerPoint workshops were offered in the Fall of 1998 at Trinity and Wesleyan. The goals were of the workshops were to teach how to use this software and get the most out of its multimedia capabilities in the context of language instruction.
 

FlanNet is a mail and information server housed at Middlebury which allows foreign language faculty, staff and students at Mellon-funded institutions to share their work and ideas. Several one-hour workshops in spring 1998 provided the faculty who attended them with a FlanNet account and basic instruction in using the system.
 

The Web Page Design workshop, presented at Trinity and Wesleyan was aimed at giving basic guidelines for designing web pages. Illustrated by examples drawn from the language web pages, the attendees discussed topics like the use of color, text, content, page layout, the integration of multimedia components such as images and sounds and web based activities. Click here for our online web page design guide.
 

This is essentially a repeat of the Pedagogy workshops offered in Fall and Spring 1997.This semester-long workshop is aimed at foreign language faculty members committed to learning how to integrate technology into their teaching. It will begin with an intensive two day session conducted by the Director and Assistant Director. These meetings will take place on January 7, 8 and 9, 1998 beginning at 9:00 a.m. and running until 3:30 p.m. Participants will do reading on pedagogy and the effects of technology use on it, discuss pedagogy, and examine software demos.

During the semester, we will meet five more times (approximately every other week). These sessions will run from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and will include dinner. The locations and dates of these sessions will be agreed upon by the participants during the early January sessions. The focus of these meetings will continue to be discussions of pedagogy and technology based on readings and independent exploration of software. To supplement these face-to-face meetings, we will all participate in on-line discussions of readings and software in a listserv format (training in this technology will be provided during the intensive January session).

At the end of the semester, we will meet for one more day-long session so that participants can report on their learning and to share their projects.

Participants in this semester-long workshop will receive a stipend of $1,500, committing them to full participation in the semester's activities. The cost of meals and commuting mileage will be covered for each session. Funding for student assistance is also available upon request.

This workshop is designed to be useful to faculty who are strongly interested in using technology but who for whatever reason have not felt able to come up with project ideas on their own and can profit from a structured sequence of technology-learning activities. It is hoped that they will then be able to build on the planning and prototyping they do in the workshop and submit full consortial project proposals according to the regular project guidelines.

No formal application is required aside from a letter of interest. This letter should indicate:

1. Your current abilities with the technology
2. The particular pedagogical area or problems you'd be interested in focusing on
3. The particular technologies you'd most like to learn about

Libra is a template which will allow you to create listening comprehension exercises. It was developed by Robert Fischer and Michael Farris of Southwest Texas University.Bob and Mike came to CTW to train us in the use of this template. Two sessions were held: the first was intended for technology specialists and took place on a Friday afternoon; the second session was for language faculty and was a day-long Saturday session. About ten faculty attended. Lisa presented about a dozen additional mini (2 hour) Libra workshops during spring 1998.
 
 

MacGALT (Glossing Authentic Language Texts) is a template which will allow you to create reading exercises. It was developed by Mary Ann Lyman-Hager of Penn State University.Mary Ann came to Trinity and instructed us in the use of this template on Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4. About ten CTW faculty attended.

Lisa introduced other CTW faculty to the use of this template in more than a dozen two hour mini-workshops during winter 1997 and spring 1998.

MANNA is a template which allows the annotation of digitized video clips. It was developed by Sasha and Alice Nakhimovsky and Tom Meyers of Colgate University. Lisa attended a workshop to learn about MANNA during August 1997 and trained CTW faculty in its use in over a dozen during 90 minute mini-workshops in 1997 and 1998.

This workshop took place several times due to the enormous amount of interest expressed. Topics which were covered included: opening and closing files and applications, organizing your work with folders, definitions of jargon, moving between applications, steps to take when your computer crashes, accessing the campus network, and more.

The basic structures of HyperCard were covered. We learned how to create stacks and navigation through them. In addition, we explored the various multimedia capabilities of HyperCard and learn the rudiments of programming in HyperTalk. This workshop was held Monday, June 9 through Wednesday, June 11, 1997, 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the Mellon Electronic Classroom at Trinity College.
 

These one-hour workshops, which were offered in spring 1998, were devoted to information on search engines and learning how to use them.