Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology
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| Friday, April 12 | |
| 12:00-5:00 PM |
Registration
Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Room 163 |
| 1:00-3:00 PM |
Session 1:
Virtual Lab Tours
Hosted by their Lab Directors These virtual visits will be open for give and take discussion, suggestions and sharing of ideas. |
| 3:15-4:30 PM |
Session 2:
The New Elice Digital Learning System
David Golden/ Logik Electronic This system does not need student computers to operate yet provides interfaceable communication with MP3 digital file collection from each student. Used successfully for AP testing and College Board Exams etc. (Will be available for demo on Saturday as well.) |
| 5:00-6:00 PM |
Opening Reception
Charles O. Burgess Conference Room, 921 Batten Arts & Letters Building |
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| Saturday, April 13 | |
| All conference sessions will be held in Room 163, Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library. | |
| 8:30-9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Charles O. Burgess Conference Room, 921 Batten Arts & Letters Building |
| 9:15-9:30 AM | Welcome to MAALLT 2002 |
| 9:45-10:25 AM |
Session 1:
Electronic Tools for Collaborative Learning in Language Classes
Chris Higgins, University of Maryland This session will look at a variety of tools that can aid in collaborative learning. Some of the tools are common, others are home-grown, and others are developed specifically for collaboration and consensus. |
| 10:30-11:00 AM |
Session 2:
Implementation of the Digital Language Lab at MTSU
Jun Da, Middle Tennessee State University Presentation on the setting up and managing of our digital language lab. How we serve the needs of both students and faculty through services such as multimedia courseware distribution and computerized placement test administration. |
| 11:00-11:15 AM |
Break
Elice Digital Learning System demo available |
| 11:15-11:55 AM |
Session 3:
Course Management with Nicenet
Karl Fisher, Sewanee The presenter will demonstrate the nonprofit course management system known as "Nicenet." The system includes messaging, a threaded discussion, document sharing, course calendar, on-line assignments, and web-link sharing and provides a low-cost alternative to course management systems like Blackboard and WebCT. |
| 12:00-1:00 PM |
Lunch
Virginia Rice Webb Room, Webb University Center |
| 1:15-1:55 PM |
Session 4:
Using Blackboard in a Face to Face Setting for Instruction and Media Center Management
Jeffrey D. Samuels, Goucher College Will discuss the ways in which we use Blackboard in language acquisition at Goucher, as well as the way I use it with my Student Technology Assistants to facilitate lab management and to foster a professionalization of their positions. |
| 2:00-2:40 PM |
Session 5:
The Benefits and "How to" of Setting up a Users Group
Samantha Earp, Duke University Presentation is based on first-hand experience setting one up for those using Blackboard for Language Classes . |
| 2:45-3:15 PM |
Conference Break
Library Meeting Room 151 |
| 3:30-4:10 PM |
Session 6:
Designing an On-line Language Placement Exam
Peter Janssens, Georgetown University See what is involved in designing and implementing an on-line, automated, cross-platform foreign language placement exam. Advantages, features, challenges. We will look at a finished product and discuss a project under development. |
| 4:15-4:55 PM |
Session 7:
Assessing the Impact of CALL on the Foreign Language Curriculum
Special IALLT guest: Jack Burston, Temple University - bio For as long as computer technology has been used to assist foreign language instruction, CALL practitioners have been held accountable for demonstrating the effectiveness of their programs. The most prevalent means of doing this has been through the application of a quantitative "treatment method" evaluation of performance outcomes. Unfortunately, these experimental versus control group comparisons have proven over and over again not to yield any significant differences. The goal of this paper is to present an alternative approach to the assessment of CALL, one based upon an evaluation of its impact upon an entire foreign language curriculum. Such an approach focuses much less narrowly on technology and much more broadly on the qualitative and quantitative effects of instructional technology upon the learning environment. In so doing, it takes as its yardstick not an arbitrary control group, but rather the extent to which CALL contributes to the explicit, measurable, pedagogical objectives of the curriculum itself. |
| 5:00-5:20 PM |
Tour of the Language Learning Center
339 Batten Arts & Letters Building |
| 5:30-6:30 PM |
MAALLT Business Meeting
Charles O. Burgess Conference Room, 921 Batten Arts & Letters Building The agenda includes election of officers, discussion of future MAALLT activities, exchange of ideas and announcements. |
| 8:00 PM | Dinner in downtown Norfolk! |
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