Teaching Foreign Languages with Technology Forum
Spring 2006
The Language Learning Center is
hosting a Technology Discussion Forum for Foreign
Language Faculty. This discussion forum will include
presentations by foreign language faculty and discussion
of pedagogical and technological issues. I am hoping
that this discussion forum will allow faculty members
to share their experiences and thoughts, and develop
some new ideas for the next semester. The focus
of this forum is the use of technology in foreign
language teaching, but all interested faculty are
welcome to attend.
Date: Thursday, May 4th., 2006
Time: 10:00am ~12:00pm
Place: Language Learning Center, Stokes 205
The faculty presentations
will include:
Kight, Duane, Assistant Professor of French, "Teaching Contemporary
French Culture with Web Resources"
Saad-Maura, Asima F, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, "Latin Popular Music as a Teaching Tool in Spanish courses"
Tanaka, Yukino, Lecturer in Japanese, "Students' Video
Projects"
Koike, Yoko, Senior Lecturer in Japanese , "Effectiveness
of Video-pal Project" and "Outcome
of Semester- Long Pronunciation Exercises"
Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Associate Professor of
Spanish, Asima F. Saad-Maura,Visiting Assistant Professor
of Spanish, Graciela Michelotti, Associate Professor
of Spanish, Yukino Tanaka, Lecturer in Japanese: "Using
Chat in Foreign Language Classrooms"
Hiroyo Saito, Director of the Language Learning Center,
will discuss the following software.
• Snapz (video capturing software)
• Wire Tap
Pro (audio capturing software)
• iMovie (video editing software)
• Audacity (audio editing software)
• Blackboard (journal, course documents, chat)
• Hot Potatoes (software to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-filling exercises
for the World Wide Web)
I hope everyone can
participate and benefit from the discussion.