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>From: Philippe Delcloque <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Announcement - InSTIL 2001
>Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:25:51 +0100
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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING
One the opening day of the EUROCALL 2001 Confence, just before it opens,
InSTIL organises its fourth event (see details below).
We have had to delay the announcement this year, so have deliberately
extended the Early Bird Fee. Whether you have been to an InSTIL event
before or not, this is not to be missed. Please contact me off list if you
have any questions. The announcement will be duplicated tomorrow on the
InSTIL and EUROCALL 2001 web sites at HTTP://DBS.TAY.AC.UK/INSTIL/ and/or
HTTP://WWW.KUN.NL/EUROCALL/
We hope to see you there.
Philippe
InSTIL 2001: The "POP InSTIL Day"
Portes Ouvertes à la Parole
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A celebration of the Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning
in the 21st Century
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Date: Wednesday 29th August 2001 in Nijmegen, Holland (satellite
event of EUROCALL 2001)
Event: The popular InSTIL series continues with what is planned to be our
first Hands-On Event and Exhibition with our usual fare of thematic
presentations by major academic and
industry players. This is yet another reason for attending the EUROCALL
conference. Due to this late notice, the Early Bird registration for this
event has been extended to June 15th 2001.
In brief: Against the backdrop of the first "Illustrated History of Speech
Technology in Language Learning", which, like the History of CALL will then
be published on a web site, the day will have the
following elements:
1. An Exhibition of Hardware, Software, Courseware, Publications and
academic protoypes (we have up to 20 Exhibition Stands available), with the
following very generous deal from the
EUROCALL organisers. The Exhibition Fee will be reduced from 350 Euros to
just 200 for InSTIL participants who are of course encouraged to exhibit
also at the large EUROCALL 2001 Conference.
2. All Exhibitors will have two entries to the Thematic Talks and one
set of InSTIL Publications (see later)
This means that two academics could have a stand to just demonstrate
prototypes if they wish.
For "ordinary participants' rates, see bottom of this message.
3. The programme of thematic talks will be published with exact titles
next week but we are pleased to include our usually high standard of Keynote
Speakers.
4. Participants enjoy free gifts of relevant products or publications.
There is also an important option to purchase with your fee the two books
just released which relate to InSTIL 99 and InSTIL 2000.
Fees for Participation:
Early Bird (15/6) Standard With
2 Books (details given on request)
60 Euros 100
Euros
Late Fee (after 15/6) 75 Euros 115
Euros
InSTIL 2001 Programme
Sponsored by Intellect Books and the leading magazine Speech Technology
More sponsors will follow and every participant is guarantee a free gift
worth at least 20 US dollars or Euros.
Some gifts will exceed in value the participation fee including the
highly-praised and well-known programme Winpitch,
Auralog CDs, featured in the History of STiLL, etc...
9 am Formal Opening of "An Illustrated History of STiLL" by Professor Ron
Cole from CSLR, Oregon, USA. Free Event.
10.00 hrs Opening of Thematic Talks by Ton Koet, one of the founding
members of CAPITAL, then InSTIL. Ton will naturally welcome the audience in
Dutch and English. He will then introduce the first speaker:
Prof. Jared Bernstein from Ordinate (attached also
to Stanford University) will introduce his work in the area of Speech
Recognition and Language Testing (see http://www.ordinate.com/)
10.30 hrs Julia Kommissarchick from BetterAccent.com will present the
company's remarkable product for teaching English Pronunciation with
visualisation, etc... See http://www.betteraccent.com/
Break
11.00 hrs Prof. Garry Moholt from West Chester University will also
present innovative research in the use of visualisation tools such as the
industry standard Kay Elemetrics hardware.
11.30 am Pierre-Yves Toche and Philippe Delcloque from the University
of Abertay Dundee will show what use could be made of Speech-Enabled Virtual
Reality in Language Learning. They will
explain the design of the prototype "Zoé va au Zoo, Odyssée Spatiale
de l'An 01", part of the umbrella THRILLING project.
14.00 hrs Helmer Strik and Catia Cucchiarini from the University of
Nijmegen, the local host university, whose department has an international
reputation in Speech Science & Engineering, will
present a paper on Automatic Assessment and Fluency.
14.30 hrs Prof. Keith Ross from Institut Eurocom and Wimba will
discuss "Teaching Languages with Asynchronous Voice over the Internet", see
http://www.wimba.com/
15.00 hrs Prof. Ron Cole from the Centre for Speech Language Research
in Oregon will close the meeting with an update on the award winning CSLU
Toolkit.
Ron, on behalf of the CSLU team, which comprises the creators of
BALDI, Profs. Michael Cohen and Dominic Massaro from the University of Santa
Cruz, will also receive the first
InSTIL Prize for "Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the
Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning". This will happen
during the opening ceremony for the
History of STiLL. InSTIL is once again grateful to EUROCALL 2000
Keynote Speaker, Ron Cole for honouring us with his presence on European
soil. Ron has also promised to donate a CSLU Toolkit new product CD-ROM for
each participant in InSTIL 2001. You are therefore all likely to receive
more than one free gift.
CAPITAL 98 had 20 participants, InSTIL 99 40, InSTIL 2000 80, this
year, we don't expect that many but we hope to see some of you and previous
participants will notice that
our presentations are once again different from our previous
efforts. This year, you also get a chance to buy our first books which are
also available separately.
Should you have any queries about any aspect, please contact Philippe on
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It is also sensible to notify me of your attendance so we can double check
with the EUROCALL 2001
organisers. You do register, however, directly on their Web Site at
http://www.kun.nl/eurocall/
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> From: Christopher J. Higgins
> Reply To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 14:10
> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: A Survey on web-based learning systems
> Message Flag: Follow up
> Flag Status: Flagged
>
> Last spring my colleagues and I conducted research on the use of Web-based
>
> Course Management Systems in language education. The responses for the
> pilot
> study were limited but did show some interesting trends, and some obvious
> flaws in the survey tool. According to comments from the respondents, as
> well
> as, session participants at a number of conferences last year, we have
> revised our survey tool on Web-based Course Management Systems.
>
> We have divided the original survey into two (Faculty and Student) and
> shortened it considerably.
>
> The audience for the Faculty Survey is anyone who has; a.) developed
> materials for; b.) taught; c.)set up; or d.) anyone involved on the
> instructional side of; a language or language-related (methods,
> linguistics,
> etc.) course using a web-based course management system. You can get to
> the
> survey at http://www.otal.umd.edu/wcmt-intro.html.
>
> The audience for the Student Survey is anyone has used any part of a
> web-based course management system for a language or language-related
> course. The student survey can be accessed from
> http://www.otal.umd.edu/wcmt_stu_intro.html.
>
> Your help in taking the survey and encouraging your students to take the
> survey will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I will be presenting the preliminary results at the IALL 2001 Conference
> (May 22-26). After the conference, I will post the presentation.
>
> I appreciate your help in gathering this information.
>
> Chris Higgins
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> University of Maryland
>
> Colleagues:
> Roberta Lavine, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Spanish
> University of Maryland
>
> Paulette Robinson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology
> Towson University
>
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> Christopher J. Higgins
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> Office of Information Technology
> 4437 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg.
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742-2411
>
> 301-405-5190 phone
> 301-405-0720 fax
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