Program --- Travel/Hotel


Transcultural Collaborations:
Language Learning in Virtual and Physical Spaces

NEALLT 2011

@ University of Pennsylvania, Penn Language Center

2011 Draft Program - pdf

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Friday, April 1

 


 

2:00-4:00 pm

Multimedia Services David Rittenhouse
Laboratory

PC Lab 1

OPTIONAL Workshop ... please sign up with registration if interested.

“Building the Language ePortfolio Using Google Doc Templates and WordPress MU”

MARY TOULOUSE + MICHELLE GEOFFRION-VINCI
Lafayette College

   

 

4:30 – 7:00

Cohen Hall
Terrace Room

 

PENN LANGUAGE CENTER GRANTS SHOWCASE
(NEALLT attendees are invited to attend.)

Christina Frei, University of Pennsylvania

 

 
 

7:00 – 9:00

Cohen Hall
Terrace Room

 

RECEPTION

 

 

Saturday, April 2

 


8:00 – 8:45

Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby

BREAKFAST and REGISTRATION


8:45 – 9:00

Cohen Hall
G17

INTRODUCTION

Ed Dixon, University of Pennsylvania


9:00 – 9:15

Cohen Hall
G17

OPENING REMARKS

NORA LEWIS, Vice Dean and Executive Director of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania


9:20 – 10:20

Cohen Hall
G17

PLENARY

SÉBASTIEN DUBREIL,
Coordinator of the French Language Program
University of Tennessee

“Identities, Borders, Change: (Trans) cultural Learning in Mediated Learning Communities”

   

SESSION 1:

10:30 – 10:50

Cohen G17

RANDA JAD-MOUSSA
UCSD/USD/CFLP

Internationalization & Technology: Leveraging Intercultural Competence using Multi-media/Task-Based Learning

Williams 301

SHAHEEN PARVEEN
University of Pennsylvania

Telecollaborative Learning Environments

Williams 303

HAROLD F. SCHIFFMAN
University of Pennsylvania

The future of dictionaries: digital or paper? The case of the English Dictionary of the Tamil Verb.

Williams 304

MARLENA FIORENTINO WONG
Eastern University

Yahoo to YouTube-Using Online Digital Media to Enhance Language Learning

Williams 305

FULVIA SERRA
Saint Joseph University

Behind the scenes: A sneak peek into the theory of the ‘e-class’

   

SESSION 2:

11:00 – 11:20

Cohen G17

KRISTI NEWGARDEN
University of Connecticut

Language Learning through Co-Action in a World of Warcraft (WoW) Centered Course

Williams 301

NITA SHARMA YAJNIK + FATAMA GADDECHE
Rutgers University

Digital Media, Online resources, and e-textbooks

Williams 303

LILIAN MINA
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Web Integration in the engineering eco-technical writing class

Williams 304

ELENA LAHR-VIVAZ + MICHAEL JONES
Swarthmore College

From iPod Touch to the Big Screen in Just an Hour (More or Less)

Williams 305

MANDY REINIG
Penn State Altoona

To Tweet or Not to Tweet: That is the Question!

   

SESSION 3:

11:30 – 11:50

Cohen G17

LYNN KUTCH
Kutztown University

Challenges and Benefits of Teaching an Online Conversation and Composition Course

Williams 301

JOSE LUIS BOIGUES
Emory University

Student Interaction with Native Speakers in Public Chat Rooms: A Different Setting in Computer Mediated Communication Applied to Language and Culture Learning.

Williams 303

CLAIRE BRADIN SISKIN
Excelsior College

Challenges in Designing Virtual Spaces for Language Learning

Williams 304

MICHELLE GEOFRION-VINCI + MARY TOULOUSE
Lafayette College

Metacognition, Assessment and the ePortfolio

Williams 305

GLORIA B. CLARK + MARTHA STRICKLAND
The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Where’s the Learning? Exploring the Gap Between Virtual Space and Undergraduate Perception of Learning.


LUNCH:

Noon – 1:30

Cohen Hall
Terrace Room

 

LUNCH

VENDORS’ SESSIONS

  • Chester Technical Services, Inc.
  • Cengage Learning Arts and Sciences,
  • Linguistic Data Consortium

POSTER SESSIONS

  • CELESTE MANN (Villanova U./Georgian Court University): El Apartamento: Global Simulation for an Online Introductory Spanish Course
  • CHRISSY STEELE (Drexel University’s English Language Center): A Personal Journey into Cyberspace – An ESL Teacher’s Search for Online Arabic Conversation Partners
  • THOMAS PLAGWITZ (University of North Carolina – Charlotte): Batch-produced time-stretched audio for personalized learning
  • ANN WARNER-AULT, CHRISTOPHER AULT, URSURLA WOLZ, TERESA MARIN NAKRA: (The College of New Jersey) Language Learning through Kinesthetic Interfaces

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP for Language Lab Directors

   

SESSION 4:

1:30 – 1:50

Cohen G17

CHRISTOPHER JONES, SOPHIE QUEUNIET + THERESE TARDIO
Carnegie Mellon / Columbia / Carnegie Mellon

Designing the New Instructional Space: Hybrid Learning in Language Online

Williams 301

SHOGGY WARYN + SABINE LEVET
Brown, MIT

Transcultural Collaboration with Cultura: roads travelled, lessons learned, and future directions

Williams 303

CHANTAL PHILIPPON-DANIEL
University of Pennsylvania

News content and virtual tools for culture and communication

Williams 304

MARGARET KENEMAN
Emory University

Teaching Grammar Through Interactive Story-Based Instruction

Williams 305

ANDY HALVORSEN
University of Illinois

Conceptualizing literacy development and language learning in social networking contexts


SESSION 5:

2:00 – 2:20

Cohen G17

ED DIXON + CHRISTINA FREI
University of Pennsylvania

Brave new classroom: The future of distance learning

Williams 301

REYES LLOPIS-GARCIA
Columbia University

e-Tandem exchange: the ultimate cultural tool in the foreign language classroom

Williams 303

TOMÁS BEVIÁ
Cornell University

Blogging from Abroad

Williams 304

JOHANNA DAMGAARD LIANDER + MARIANA SAN MARTÍN
Harvard University

Language Learning through Cinema in First-Year Spanish

Williams 305

EDUARDO LAGE-OTERO
Trinity College

Language learning and social media sites: Broadening the language learning experience


 

SESSION 6:

2:30 – 2:50

 

Cohen G17

AMBER MARKS
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

Languages shared across 12 institutions: CIC CourseShare

Williams 301

DONGDONG CHEN
Seton Hall University

Using Skype as a Language Exchange Tool for Introductory Chinese

Williams 303

CHRISTINE E. POTEAU
Temple University

Online Collaborations and the Language Learner

Williams 304

DUANE W. KIGHT
Haverford College

Annotated and Supplemented French News Videos

Williams 305

JANE COSTELLO
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Increasing linguistic competence with blogs in online introductory second language courses


 

SESSION 7:

3:00 – 3:20

 

Cohen G17

NICOLE MILLS
Harvard University

Action Research: Bridging Theory and Practice in an Online Teacher Education Program

Williams 301

HAEWON CHO
University of Pennsylvania

Digital Storytelling Project in Korean language classroom

Williams 303

MAIA SOLOVIEVA + LILIANA MILKOVA
Oberlin College; Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College

Learning Culture through Art: Creating Personal Meanings in a Virtual Learning Environment

Williams 304

CARRIE E. HAIGHT + LUCIE KNIGHT
Arabia Mountain High School, Dekalb County, GA and Franklin and Marshall College

Oh là là…quelle aventure! Discovering Basic French

Williams 305

ANN MARIE DELFORGE + CHRISTINE PETTUS
Montclair State University

Constructing Knowledge Through Conversations in Second Life: Student-Student and Student-Native Speaker Interactions in a Hybrid Spanish Class


SESSION 8:

3:30 – 3:50

 

Cohen G17

SANDHYA BODAPATI
Educational Testing Service

Emerging technologies and new trends

Williams 301

CRAIG KAPP, TULIA JIMENEZ-VERGARA
New York University / The College of New Jersey

Using Rich-Media Digital Storytelling Tools to Encourage Writing and Conversation

Williams 303

ED DIXON, FERIDE HATIBOGLU, INSOOK KANG + MIKA TSEKOURA
University of Pennsylvania

Penn’s virtual campus in Second life and the language islands

Williams 304

INÉS ARRIBAS
Bryn Mawr College

"A Website for the Teaching of Federico García Lorca’s Bodas de sangre [Blood Wedding]"

Williams 305

KAREN PRICE
Boston University

Paper-based Computing


SESSION 9:

4:00 – 4:20

 

Cohen G17

MOHAMED MAAMOURI + CHRISTOPHER CIERI
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania

Incorporating Resources and New Technologies in Language Education

Williams 301

BRISA TEUTLI
Cornell University

¡A escribir! writing as a process on-line program for high-beginner Spanish students

Williams 303

VICTORIA KIRKHAM + JULIA VERKHOLANTSEV
University of Pennsylvania

Possibilities and Perils of the Wiki: Two Italian Classroom Experiments (Dante, Cinema).

Blogs, Diaries, Journals: a Public Life of a Writing Assignment".

Williams 304

LUBA ISKOLD
Muhlenberg College

Instructional challenges of Hypbrid Teaching

Williams 304

ADRIANA MERINO + JOSEPH ROBERTSON
Villanova University

Enhancing Participatory Learning Through Technology

 

 

SESSION 10:

4:30 – 5:30

 

Cohen Hall

Terrace Room

 

Cohen Hall

G17

VENDORS’ SESSIONS BY

  • Adobe's eLearning tools (Cohen Hall G17, 4:30 - 5:00)
  • Chester Technical Services, Inc.
  • Cengage Learning Arts and Sciences
  • Linguistic Data Consortium
  • Adobe Connect

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY

  • International Association for Language Learning Technology
  • McGraw Hill Publishing
  • Penn Language Center
  • Penn SAS Computing and Multimedia Services
  • African Studies Center
  • Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Pennsylvania
  • South Asia Studies of the University of Pennsylvania
   

DINNER:

7:00 – 9:00

Penne

3611 Walnut Street

DINNER (requires extra registration)

 




 

Sunday, April 3

 


8:00 – 9:00

Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby

BREAKFAST + REGISTRATION
 
 

9:00 – 9:45

Cohen Hall
Room 402

MARIA ALESSANDRA WOOLSON + JOE ANTONIOLI
MIDDELBURY COLLEGE

Constructing a Virtual Social Space for Cultural Immersion in Spanish Language Acquisition

 
 

9:45 – 10:30

Cohen Hall
Room 402

JANEL BRENNAN-TILLMANN, ROBERTA LAVINE, MARY ELLEN SCULLEN + ANA PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ
University of Maryland

Language classrooms without borders: using web based tools

 
 

10:30 – 11:15

Cohen Hall
Room 402

NELLEKE VAN DEUSEN-SCHOLL + ED DIXON
Yale University, University of Pennsylvania

Panel on Distance Learning

 
 

11:15 – Noon

Cohen Hall
Room 402

MICHAEL JONES + MARY TOULOUSE
Swarthmore College, Lafayette College

Re-designing the Language Resource Center

 

Noon – 1:30

Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby

LUNCH (requires extra registration) + BUSINESS MEETING