The Faculty Development Sites (FDSs) at Connecticut College, Trinity College and Wesleyan University contain not only hardware, but also books, software and videotapes for your use and reference. This page is intended as an introduction to these resources. You are welcome to come to the FDS on your campus and explore these materials on your own or with your colleagues, or you can come by or make an appointment with the Mellon Technical Specialist on your campus.

Books
Software
Videotapes

• Surf's Up! A Website Workbook for Basic French, by Linda Moehle-Vieregge, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Stayc DuBravac and Travis Bradley

 
 
• Surf's Up! A Website Workbook for German, by Linda Moehle-Vieregge, Sabrina R. Bird and Christine Manteghi

These workbooks provide pedagogically sound activities and tasks for use in conjunction with existing websites, allowing students to use the web as a learning tool. A similar workbook for Spanish is currently under production.

• PICS Videoguidelines, compiled by Rick Altman et al.

The PICS Videoguidelines have been developed to stimulate work with video in language teaching. They are not meant to be prescriptive, but provocative; they are ideas, suggestions, perspectives, fragments of a larger universe of possibilities. The manual is 24 pages long and consists of four parts:

• Twelve Topics on Video in Language Learning provides over 100 answers to some of the most frequently heard questions about work with video.
• Dimensions of Interactivity provides a rationale and a two-page chart to guide a teacher's approach to any video segment.
• An Activities Inventory offers an extensive checklist of 77 specific activities for three phases of teaching with video: presentation, preparation, and expansion.
• Readings makes a few suggestion for further exploration of this topic.

• Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning: Proceedings of the Hawai'i Symposium, Mark Warschauer, Editor.

The Symposium on Local & Global Electronic Networking in Foreign Language Learning & Research, part of the National Foreign Language Resource Center's1995 Summer Institute on Technology & the Human Factor in Foreign Language Education included presentations of papers and hands-on workshops conducted by Symposium participants to facilitate the sharing of resources, ideas, and information about all aspects of electronic networking for foreign language teaching and research, including electronic discussion and conferencing, interntional cultural exchanges, real-time communication and simulations, research and resource retrieval via the Internet, and research using networks. This collection presents a sampling of those presentations.

• Virtual Connections: Online activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners, Mark Warschauer, Editor.

Computer networking has created dramatic new possibilities for connecting language learners ina single classroom or across the globe. This collection of activities and projects makes use of e-mail, the World Wide Web, computer conferencing, and other forms of computer-mediated communication for the foreign and second language classroom at any level of instruction. Teachers from around the world submitted the activities compiled in this volume--activities that they have use successfully in their own classrooms.

• McGraw-Hill Teleconference on Language Instruction and the Role of Technology.

Recorded on 10/23/96. This teleconference presents speakers Robert J. Blake on the role of technology and Bill van Patten on technology in the communicative language classroom. It also features a roundtable discussion moderated by Gerard Ervin. Participating in the roundtable are Robert Blake, Gail Robinson-Stuart, Richard G. Kern, Christopher M. Jones, James P. Pusack, Karen Price and Bill van Patten.

• Dierk Hoffmann (Colgate University) speaks on "Texts and Technology: A Perfect Marriage?"

Recording of lecture given on 11/12/96 at Wesleyan University. Dr. Hoffmann is particulary interested in developing multimedia approaches to understanding literature and in multimedia publication of literary scholarship. He demonstrated some of his own work along these lines, with theoretical reflections, and showed several of the software tools available for developing such applications.

• Donna van Handle (Mt. Holyoke College) speaks on "Using the Web for Language Learning and Teaching."

Recording of lecture given on 12/5/96 at Trinity College. Dr. Van Handle presents and discusses innovative and productive pedagogical activities based on teachers' and students' exploration of the Web and demonstrates useful websties in a variety of languages. We still have a number of handouts from this lecture; please let us know if you'd like to have one.

• Suzanne Branciforte (Holy Cross College) speaks on "Integrating Video into Foreign Language Teaching"

Recording of lecture given on 4/22/97 at Connecticut College. Dr. Branciforte's talk focuses on ways to integrate video into foreign language teaching. She discusses the various kinds of video material available and suggests ways in which it can best be exploited. She discusses the creation of the "Parliamo italiano!" video, which is an integral part of the elementary Italian program she designed and wrote (forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin this spring). The entire Parliamo package includes a text-specific CD-ROM which will be launched at ACTFL in November, 1997. This lecture is useful not only to teachers of Italian, but also to those who are interested in how video can be genuinely integrated into teaching.

• CTW Mellon Technology Fair

CTW faculty present projects funded by the CTW Mellon Project at Trinity College on 4/26/97 in the Mellon Electronic Classroom at Trinity College. Presenters included, in order of appearance:

Ana Pérez-Gironés, Wesleyan University, Spanish

Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Trinity College, French

Michael Roberts, Wesleyan University, Latin

Giuliana Palma, Trinity College, Italian

Guest Presenter Robert Davis of Smith College

Yoshiko Samuel, Wesleyan University, Japanese

Seiji Naito, Wesleyan University, Japanese

Lin Domizio and Tek-Wah King, Connecticut College, Chinese

Tim Vance, Connecticut College, Japanese

Melissa Vogelsang, Connecticut College, German

Steven Smolnik, Connecticut College

• Robert Blake (University of California at Davis) speaks on "Nuevos Destinos and Remote Teaching Assistant "

Recording of lecture given on 11/20/97 at Wesleyan University. Dr. Blake showed Nuevos Destinos, the sequel to the video series Destinos. In addition, he demonstrated the Remote Technical Assistant, which allows teachers and students to communicate using audio, text and whiteboarding.

• 1997 McGraw-Hill Teleconference "Instruction and Acquisition: Grammar in the Communicative Language Classroom"

Recording of teleconference broadcasted on 11/29/97. Diane Musumeci, Michael Long, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Patsy Lightbown, Ted Higgs and Bill VanPatten engage in a roundtable discussion moderated by Gerard Ervin on approaches to grammar in language teaching.