Fall 1999 Newsletter

// The CTW Community

// CTW Mellon Conference at Wesleyan

// Check your copyright IQ

// CALICO '99 in Oxford, OH

// Recently Completed Projects.

// IALL '99 in College Park, MD

// Dec. 5, 1998 Tech Fair Summary

// Check it Out!

// February 13, 1999 Colloquium

// Calendar of Events


Our Recent Look Into the Future:
The CTW Mellon Project hosted a three-day conference at Wesleyan May 24-26, with over 80 participants from 22 colleges in New England and New York. "Technology and Language Teaching in New England and New York: a Look into the Future" featured plenary presentations by Clara Yu, David Herren and Sharon Fechter from Middlebury College's Center for Educational Technology; Nina Garrett, Director of Language Study at Yale, and Ted Sicker, Executive Producer for WGBH Interactive, which collaborated on the Nuevos Destinos project. Seventeen concurrent sessions, many of them with multiple presenters, served to demonstrate an amazing variety of courseware projects that have been developed since the Mellon-funded "teaching with technology" initiative began five years ago.  Of course, our own CTW colleagues figured prominently in the program:
Mary Louise Ennis of Wesleyan University presented "Web-ifying the FL Literature Classroom";
Octavio Flores of Wesleyan University presented "Reading 'Garabatos'", a project produced by Zaira Rivera-Casellas of Wesleyan University;
Xiaomiao Zhu of Wesleyan University presented "Conversation Drill with Echo";
Geoffrey Atherton of Connecticut College presented "Exploiting the Web for Language Learning and Reading"
Françoise Weaver of Trinity College presented "Web-based Workbook for a Conversation Class: Current Events"
Irina Aleshkovsky of Wesleyan University presented 2 Russian projects: "The Prisoner of Caucasus" and "Russian Poetry Web Page"
Levana Polate of Wesleyan University & Trinity College presented "Language and Cultural Enrichment Through Technology"
Tek-wah King and Maria Montzolis of Connecticut College presented "Macromedia Director and its Application to Chinese"
H. Lin Domizio of Connecticut College joined Gloria Bien and Naeem N. Sheikh of Colgate University in presenting "Libra & Hyperstudio: Pedagogical Issues, Implications, and Future Directions"
Dario Del Puppo of Trinity College presented "Virtual Authenticity: Teaching Book History with Computers"
Giuliana Palma of Trinity College presented "Preparing to go to the TC/Rome Campus"