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*** Special Interactive Live Webstream -- Friday, 20 April 2012 ***

Instructional Technology – Bringing Learning Closer or Increasing the Distance?

Invited Speaker: Julie Sykes, University of New Mexico.
"Digital Games and Language Learning: Bridging the Distance".
9:00-10:15.

Roundtable Discussion:
"Distance Learning and Language Teaching: How and Why? A Discussion of the Issues".
10:30-12:00.


As a special feature of this year's Language Technology division at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference ("LangTech at the KFLC"), we will be live streaming the keynote speaker and roundtable session listed above.

Join us through Adobe Connect at:

http://connect.uky.edu/kflc/

to watch the keynote and roundtable live, and then participate via the text chat feature of Adobe Connect to ask questions directly to the keynote speaker and roundtable panelists.

Panelists for the roundtable are:
- Jeff Ruth, Chair, Modern Languages, East Stroudsburg University (organizer and moderator).
- Robert Blake, Director, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching, Chair, Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition, University of California Davis.
- Mirjam Hauck, Associate Head, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom.
- Lauren Rosen, Director, University of Wisconsin System Collaborative Language Program.
- Susan Yoder-Kreger, Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- Julie Sykes, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of New Mexico (respondent).
- Mark Richard Lauersdorf, Director of Language Technology, University of Kentucky (respondent).

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