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NERALLT's Spring 2008 Meeting
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May 1 - 2, 2008
Language Learning in Action: Moving Images in a Digital World
Keynote Address by Joel Goldfield (Culpeper Language Resource Center, Associate Professor, Fairfield University)
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Wesleyan in the Spring
Samuel Wadsworth Russell House. |
Register Now! - Hotel Info Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret, Director of the Language Resource Center at Wesleyan University, has graciously agreed to serve as host of our Spring 2008 meeting to be held on Friday, May 2, 2008. Workshops on Flash Media Server (see below) and Jabber, a chat server, will be offered on Thursday afternoon, May 1. Co-Chairs: Emily Wentworth and Mark Knowles of Yale University Call for Proposals (pdf document) |
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CONFERENCE THEME Film and video have been used in language education for 50 years or more. What began as merely ‘showing a movie’ has progressed to a plethora of uses and means of delivery for the moving image (and audio) for language learning and instruction. Today's world language students are now learning from viewing, making, and interacting with digitized moving images through films, their own video creations, teachers' multimedia presentations, publishers' ancillary materials, video podcasts from museums, collaborative projects involving interdisciplinary departments and international partners, videoconferencing, travel blogs, and much more- delivered over the Web, through commercial video streaming services to campus networks, from video clip and film libraries, digitized art galleries, video-sharing websites, and yes, often simply from a DVD movie played in class. Thursday Workshops Kalliope Flash Media Server is a powerful software that allows audio and video to be downloaded and recorded within a web browser, thus making it a very attractive solution for language learning applications. Using this technology, Wesleyan University has developed Kalliope, an application designed primarily to support language learning. The first part of the workshop will focus on the presentation of Kalliope and participants will get a chance to get hands on experience. In the second part of the workshop, Phil Isaacs, developer of this Flash application, will talk more in depth about Flash Media Server and its integration with other technologies. Jabber Jabber is an open-source instant messaging platform that uses open, XML-based protocols to create the standard functionality people expect of an instant messaging system, such as one-to-one chat, multiuser chat, the ability to subscribe to someone else's presence. This demonstration/workshop will showcase Apple's OS X Jabber Server and iChat. |
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Richard House, Pres. NERALLT
Language Resource Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
email: rhouse@cisunix.unh.edu
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