From Chalkboard to Blackboard:
New Technologies for Language Teaching & Learning
February 6 and 7, 2004
at
San Jacinto College Central
Pasadena, Texas
(Greater Houston Area)
Sponsors
Thursday, February 5
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Pre-conference session:
Tour of Rice University’s Language Resource Center
Friday, February 6
All Friday conference sessions will be held in the Teaching Theater (T155) of the Interactive Learning Center (ILC).
There will also be an Exhibitors’ Area in the ILC.
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast in the Kaleidoscope Room (T102) in the ILC
(sponsored by San Jacinto College South)
9:00-9:15 a.m.
Welcome
9:15-9:45 a.m.
Session # 1: Creating a Truly Multilingual Digital Environment for our Students
Claire Bartlett, Rice University
Demonstration
9:55-10:25 a.m.
Session # 2 : Incorporating Technology In Outcomes Assessment
Teresa H. Johnson and Riahna Weakley, Saint Louis University
Paper
10:35-11:05 a.m.
Session # 3: Personalizing Instruction with Blackboard
Delia Méndez Montesinos, University of Texas at Austin
Paper
11:15-11:45 a.m.
Session # 4: Web-based Student Activities Manual
Tom Condon and Hildegart Hoquee, Vista Higher Learning
Demonstration
11:45-1:15 p.m.
Lunch in the Ballroom in the Student Center.
(sponsored by San Jacinto College Central)
1:20-2:10 p.m.
Tour of San Jacinto College Central’s Technology Facilities
2:15-3:15 p.m.
Exhibitors’ Session
3:20-3:50 p.m.
Session # 5: Combining Distance and Language Immersion: Culture and History of Germany
Donovan Anderson and Hella Hennessee, University of Dallas
Paper
3:50-4:15 p.m. Refreshments
4:15-4:45 p.m.
Session # 6: Threaded Discussions: Providing Discourse-Level Grammar Practice
Donald Weasenforth, Collin County Community College
Paper
4:55-5:25 p.m.
Session # 7: Technology-enhanced Chinese Teaching
Chao-mei Shen and Meng Yeh, Rice University
Paper
Evening Dinner on your own. A van will be available to take you to the Kemah Boardwalk, where there are restaurants and specialty shops by the water.
Saturday, February 7
All Saturday presentations except for the workshops (sessions # 10 and #11) will be held in the Teaching Theater (T155) of the ILC.
Session #10 will be in T130 of the ILC. Session #11 will be in the Foreign Language Lab, 111 Administration Building.
8:00-9:00 a.m
Breakfast in the Kaleidoscope Room (T102) in the ILC.
(sponsored by San Jacinto College South)
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Session # 8: Teaching Spanish via the Internet: Caveat, Challenges, and Achievements
Robert A. Quinn, Jackson State University
Paper
9:40-10:10 a.m
Session # 9: Teaching Romance Linguistics to Nonlinguists: Using Blackboard to Create a Community of Learners
Stuart Stewart, Southeastern Louisiana University
Demonstration
10:20-11:50 a.m.
Session # 10: Creating Multimedia Exercises with Dreamweaver’s CourseBuilder
Hajime Kumahata, Rice University
Workshop (Intermediate Level)
Session # 11: Using PowerPoint to Teach, Play, and Engage Students
Karima Benremouga, San Jacinto College Central
Workshop (Beginning Level)
12:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
(sponsored by San Jacinto College District Distance Learning Office)
1:15-1:45 p.m.
Business Meeting
2:00-2:30 p.m.
Session # 12: Customizing Graphics for Online Language Courses: Examples from Spanish
John P. Sullivan, Prairie View A&M University
Paper
2:40-3:10 p.m
Session # 13: Using the Internet to Teach ESOL Reading
Ava Zinn, Elizabeth Cazner and Carolyn Poole, San Jacinto College Central
Demonstration
