Friday, April 27
5:00pm – 9:30pm


5:00pm Facility Tours
Steven Clancy, Academic Director
Center for the Study of Languages

5:30pm Registration and Wine Reception

6:30pm Panel Discussion
Use or Refuse: Pros and Cons of Multimedia
• Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin/Madison
Associate Professor of Japanese
• Jenise Rowekamp, University of Minnesota
CLA Language Center
• John de Szendeffy, Boston University
Center for English Language and Orientation Programs & Multimedia Language Lab Coordinator

8:00pm Catered Dinner

Saturday, April 28
8:30am – 4:30pm


8:30am Registration and Breakfast

9:30am Session One
9:30am Ava Chitwood and Margit Grieb
University of South Florida
The LAM Project: Collaborative and Interactive Culture & Language Classes through Technology and Film
10:00am Kaoru Ohta
University of Washington
Some Pros and Cons of Hybrid Method in a Large Language Program
10:30am R.A. Korb
Columbia University
Assessing a Virtual Semester in Berlin

11:00am Break

11:30am Session Two
11:30am Laura Balladur
Bates College
Students and the Online Gazette: Team Work or Busy Bodies?
12:00pm Hiroo Aridome
Washington University
The Positive Effects of Blogging on the Classroom Dynamic
12:30pm Susanne Kelley
Kennesaw State University
Beyond Powerpointlessness: PowerPoint as an Interactive Learning Tool

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Concurrent Sessions

Marta Dmytrenko-Ahrabian
The Virtual Classroom: Is it Possible?

Monika Fischer, University of Missouri
Blended or Hybrid Teaching: Creating a New Learning Culture

Amanda Huensch and Sue Ingels
Using Popular Media to Teach English Suprasegmentals

Naoko Kurokawa, Duke University
Towards Autonomous Learning: Using iPods & iTunes U for Intermediate Level Japanese

Richard Lepine, Northwestern University
Digital Media Use in LCTL Teaching

Loretta Li
Expanding Students’ Vocabulary Options

Franziska Lys, Northwestern University
Enhancing multiple-skills: intensive and extensive language learning through multimedia

Suin Roberts
Creating a Sense of Unity in an Two-Way Video-Conferencing Classroom

Margaret Sinclair, Northwestern University
La Grammaire animée – Using PowerPoint in the Third-Year Writing Course

3:00pm Wrap-up and Closing Reception