Regina DeAngelo, Host Site Contact, for the Staff of the Center for Language Study (Nina Garrett, Director)

Dick House (University of New Hampshire), Program Chair

1:00 SmartBoards: What's all the fuss about?

(Susan Breeyear, Jeremy Gilpin and Jim Millard - St. Michael's College, VT)

2:00 MIMIO Demo (Barbara Sawhill - Oberlin College, OH)

2:25 Brainstorming Session: SmartBoard and MIMIO vs. PowerPoint and Chalk (Workshop Participants)

3:00 HTML Basics (Dick House - University of New Hampshire)

3:35 Dreamweaver Demo and Basics (Mary Morrisard-Larkin - College of the Holy Cross, MA)

8:30 Check-in, Coffee/Breakfast Treats

9:05 Welcome (Cynthia Bravo - Boston College, MA) and Meeting Overview (Dick House - University of NH)

9:20 Servers: Cheap to Complex (Otmar Foelsche - Dartmouth College, NH)

Otmar will run down the options for storing and distributing files on a network. Such "low tech" approaches as personal file and web sharing in Mac and XP, as well as pre-configured file servers such as SNAP servers will be compared to the more "high tech" Mac X servers and other commercial products. He will also consider what sorts of services Central Computing / IT organizations can often provide. The pros and cons of each of these solutions will be discussed briefly.

9:55 The Trials of Getting Non-Roman Fonts into WebCT (Marisa Castagno - Connecticut College, CT)

Marisa will describe a technically challenging experience in creating a WebCT site in Traditional Chinese (without UNICODE). In this presentation she will talk about the display problems that WebCT 3.8 has with HTML files encoded in Traditional Chinese Big 5. In a joint effort with the IT team and the Chinese instructor, Marisa has been able to properly display Chinese characters in BiauKai fonts by adding a few commands on the Apache web-server and by modifying the HTML file name extension.

10:20 Web-Based Testing:

Using WebPractest to Create Self-Correcting Testing Materials

(Mary Morrisard-Larkin - College of the Holy Cross, MA)

WebPractest©, a free Javascript program designed by Gary A. Smith of the College of William & Mary, helps developers of instructional materials create self-correcting exercises or tests for distribution on the Internet. The program itself converts a basic HTML document so that it will display the text and images contained within, while substituting text boxes for words that the developer has marked as items to be practiced or tested. At the College of the Holy Cross, WebPractest is used to deliver pre-tests that students can take to prepare themselves for their exams.

One Potato, Two: Web-Based Quizzes with Hot Potatoes  (Jerie Milici - Greenwich High School, CT)

Jerie will show sample quizzes that were created with Hot Potatoes software. There are five styles of quizzes and practices available which can be converted to HTML format.

An Assessment of Blackboard Assessments  (Dick House - University of New Hampshire)

Blackboard, which is described as "a powerful and easy-to-use course management system," contains "a robust assessment engine." The pros and cons of using this assessment module in current versions of Blackboard will be discussed.

11:00 BREAK

11:10 Virtual Learning Communities:

From Email to Virtual Museum: Uses of Web Technology in Intermediate Language Learning

 (Robin Clouser - Ursinus College, PA and Michelle Sims - Mount Saint Joseph Academy, PA)

Michelle Sims (Instructional Technologist) and Robin Clouser (Professor of German) will discuss the technical and pedagogical problems they faced linking intermediate-level language students at two colleges. Beginning with e-mail, enhanced by digital pictures and autobiographies in the target language, students progressed to group collaborative projects using "Virtual Museum" software.

CHATSKELLER  (Barbara Sawhill - Oberlin College, OH)

CHATSKELLER was created by Scott Payne, formerly of the CET at Middlebury. This web-based program uses Filemaker and allows faculty and students to conduct asynchronous and synchronous chats in many languages (Chinese, Russian, Japanese and more). Barbara will give a brief demo of the program.

12noon LUNCH/K-12 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP & NERALLD BUSINESS MEETING

MEETING PRESENTATIONS RESUME

1:15 An Overview of Video Options in Language Teaching  (Dave Kenney - Media Computer Concepts, NH)

An overview of the options available to educators wanting to use video in their courses.  A short consideration will be given to what the video will be used for and who will shoot and edit it. The pros and cons of conventional analog cameras and VCRs versus dv firewire cameras and editing programs of various levels of difficulty will be discussed.

2:10 Can Technology Replace the Chalkboard?  (Susan Breeyear, Barbara Sawhill and others)

After a brief recapitulation of Thursday’s workshop, we will open a discussion of how one goes about evaluating the potential of a presentation technology for language learning.

3:10 Wrap-Up

3:30 Tour of the Center for Language Study

Yale University, Center for Language Study, 370 Temple Street, Room 100, New Haven, CT

Hosts: Staff of the Center for Language Study, Nina Garrett, Director

Telephone #s (in case of emergency on 3/13 or 3/14): (203) 432-8196 or (203) 432-5250

For General Directions/Info., Transportation to Yale and Lodging Information: Go to:

http://www.cls.yale.edu/neralld2003/ This is the Center for Language Study's comprehensive NERALLD Spring 2003 Meeting web page where you'll find links to campus maps, parking information, hotels and other accommodations (some offering discount rates to NERALLD meeting attendees), New Haven restaurants, etc. NOTE: Carpooling to Yale is encouraged, as parking in New Haven can sometimes be difficult.

PARKING: In Lot 16 of the Kline Biology Tower at Whitney Avenue and Humphrey St.; Fee = $3.00/day, no permit required. (NOTE: If the Kline Lot 16 is full, there will be room in the Pierson-Sage Garage adjacent to the lot.}

The Kline Biology Tower's parking lot #16 is at Whitney and Humphrey Sts., in the Science Hill section of the campus.

[For a map of the Science Hill section, see the web page: http://www.cls.yale.edu/neralld2003/]

The Center for Language Study is in the Hillhouse Avenue section of campus.

[For a map of the Hillhouse Avenue section of campus and the CLS: http://www.cls.yale.edu/neralld2003/]

DIRECTIONS TO LOT 16:

From Interstate 95

From the North: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven; take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and follow directions below for I-91.

From the South: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven (left exit); take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and follow directions below for I-91.

Interstate 91

From the North or South: Take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). Stay in the middle lane and continue straight. Go through a stoplight, which puts you onto Trumbull Street. Continue on Trumbull to next stoplight. That's Whitney Avenue. Take a right onto Whitney Avenue. Continue up Whitney until the 2nd light (Humphrey Street). There, make a left to enter parking lot # 16, which will be on your right. Map: http://www.yale.edu/hronline/parkingandtransit/lots.htm

At this map site, choose "Lot 16", then click on section C to enlarge the map.

WALKING DIRECTIONS (estimated walk time = 10 minutes) from the Kline Biology Tower Lot 16 to Center for Language Study: From the parking lot, exit right onto Whitney Avenue. Walk down Whitney Avenue until the road forks. Take the right side; that's Temple Street. The CLS is about one and a half blocks down, at Temple and Grove Sts. (370 Temple St.).

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