NEALLT 2010 - Draft Program

Registration --- Program --- Travel/Hotel --- Parking

Learning Globally Through Web 2.0 Technology

NEALLT 2010

@ Skidmore College

Friday, April 9

2:30-4:30 pm Foreign Language Resource Center Bolton 380	OPTIONAL Workshop ... please sign up with registration if interested. Digital Storytelling with Comic Life and iMovie Friday, April 9th, This 2-hour hands-on workshop will include a presentation of student projects created with Comic Life and iMovie software for the mac. Mike Jones (Swarthmore College) will guide participants through the process of creating digital narratives in iMovie. Cindy Evans (Skidmore College) will give a tutorial on creating projects in Comic Life. With contributions from Mary Toulouse (Lafayette College) and Mary Beth Barth (Hamilton College).

Surrey- Williamson Inn 4:45 - 5:30 pm	Registration

Surrey-Williamson Inn 5:00 - 7:00 pm	Reception

Saturday, April 10

8:00 - 8:30 am Gannett Lobby in Palamountain Hall	Registration & continental breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 Davis Auditorium	Welcome: Associate Dean Patricia Rubio Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Yale University, NEALLT President Peggy Sharkey, WSWHE BOCES Language and Culture Resource Center

8:45 - 9:30 Davis Auditorium	Keynote Claire Bradin Siskin, Director of the ESL Workshop Project at Excelsior College. "Learning Globally through Disruptive Technologies" Web 2.0 technologies are often referred to as "disruptive," but do we really need more disruption in education? Don't we have enough problems as it is? Although Web 2.0 can enrich the ways in which we teach and learn languages, fundamental changes in the "normal" order of things may be involved in the process. How can we decide which Web 2.0 tools to use and how to use them to best advantage? Will it really be worth all the trouble? The presenter will offer some suggestions for handling the inevitable disruption.
Session 1 10:00 - 10:45
Bolton 382	French "Web 2.0 Foreign Language Proficiency Assessments," Dan Nikolai, Saint Louis University
Bolton 280	Spanish "El uso de rúbricas en la evaluación de un portafolio de cultura," Ame Cividanes & Sebastian Diaz, Yale University
Harder 108	English "Photostory," Birgit Deir, Nazareth College
Session 2 11:00 - 11:45
Bolton 380	French "Outils de recherche pour le monde francophone," Cindy Evans, Skidmore College
Bolton 280	Spanish "More than the sum of its parts: A Case-Study of Wikis for Collaborative Language Learning," Natalie Magnatta, University of New Hampshire
Bolton 281	English "A Web-based Korean Dictation Practice Program," Angela Lee-Smith, Yale University

noon - 1:30 Murray-Aikins Dining Hall	Lunch (included in registration) & Exhibits

Session 3 1:30 - 2:15 Bolton 382	"Social networking communities: Identity and relationship development," Nicole Mills, University of Pennsylvania

Session 4 2:30 - 3:15 Bolton 382	"e-Textbooks in the Language Center: Promise or peril?" Eduardo Lage-Otero, Trinity College

Session 5 3:30 - 4:15 Bolton 382 Davis Auditorium	"ISLET Project: developing a comprehensive approach to longitudinal assessment of language development," Scott Payne & Tony Beld, Amherst College and the Academic Consortium for Global Education. Remote presentation.

4:15-4:45	Tour of the Foreign Language Resource Center, Bolton 380-381

Sunday, April 11

8:30 - 9:00 Gannett Lobby	Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:45	Session 6
Bolton 382	"Designing a Distance Learning Course based on Social Interaction," Ed Dixon, University of Pennsylvania

9:45 - 10:30	Session 7
Bolton 382	"TEC - Technology Enhanced Correction," Charles E. Long, Choate Rosemary Hall

10:30 - 11:15	Session 8
Bolton 382	"Ready, Set, Blog! –Web 2.0 Technologies in Foreign Language Classrooms," Jutta Schmiers-Heller, Columbia University

11:15 - noon	Session 9
Bolton 382	Open Mic

noon - 1:00	Lunch (optional ... please include in registration if interested)