Date, Time and Location
12:00 ¹ 2:00 p.m. Thursday, May 18, 2006
LRC lounge, CIRUTI
Faculty Panel
Four faculty members from the departments of German, Spanish,
French and Asian Studies will showcase innovative applications
of several technology tools used during this academic year. The
following is a list of the presenters and their topics:
1) Synchronous
Online Communication via Skype
Yuko Kawahara -- Asian 222, 324, (fall 05) and Asian 223, 326
(spring 06)
Yuko conducted a number of voice-over-IP sessions with students
at MHC communicating with students attending a sister college
in Tokyo. She will talk about how this technology has helped
her students develop their listening and speaking skills and
will show a live audio communication using Skype.
2) Asynchronous Online Communication through WebCT
Gary Schmidt -- German 222 (fall 05)
Gary’s presentation will describe an exchange of views
between students in German 222 and students attending a gymnasium
in Wasserburg, Germany.
3) Integrating Multimedia in Teaching and Learning Spanish as
a Foreign Language
Thelma Belmonte-Alcantara -- Spanish 102, 200, 210 (spring 06)
Thelma will demonstrate how she has integrated audio and video
technologies in teaching Spanish language courses and discuss
their impact upon students' language skills.
4) Encoding of literary texts using XML/TEI
Nicole Vaget -- French 331 (fall 05)
Nicole will show a collective team project: creating a digital
critical edition of an unpublished 18th century manuscript. She
will talk about the pedagogical use of XML/TEI technologies in
the classroom.
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