NERALLT 2008 Spring Meeting May 1-2, 2008 - Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) "Language Learning in Action: Moving Images in a Digital World" The Program Committee, composed of co-chairs, Emily Wentworth (Yale U) and Mark Knowles (Yale U) and host, Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret (Wesleyan U) are inviting you to join us for the Spring meeting of the New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology. This biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating pedagogical research and practical applications of technology for the teaching and learning of foreign languages, and provides a venue for language technologists and faculty to come together and share new ideas. CONFERENCE THEME "Language Learning in Action: Moving Images in a Digital World" Film and video have been used in language education for 50 years or more. What began as merely 'showing a movie' has progressed to a plethora of uses and means of delivery for the moving image (and audio) for language learning and instruction. Today's world language students are now learning from viewing, making, and interacting with digitized moving images through films, their own video creations, teachers' multimedia presentations, publishers' ancillary materials, video podcasts from museums, collaborative projects involving interdisciplinary departments and international partners, videoconferencing, travel blogs, and much more- delivered over the Web, through commercial video streaming services to campus networks, from video clip and film libraries, digitized art galleries, video-sharing websites, and yes, often simply from a DVD movie played in class. PROGRAM and REGISTRATION Thursday May 1 will consist of two pre-conference workshops: Flash Media Server/Kalliope and Apple's Jabber Server/iChat (Mac users). Advanced registration is required and seating is limited to 15 participants. You can sign-up for either one or both. Wednesday May 2 is our main conference day. A full day of exciting presentations is planned, with such topics as Digital Storytelling, GIS for Language Learning, YouTube in the Classroom, etc. For a full program description and Registration please visit our website: http://www.nerallt.unh.edu/meeting/index.html#conference. The cost of the conference is $25 and includes light breakfast and luncheon. NERALLT Membership (optional) is $25. For more information on Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/ Questions regarding the program should be sent to Emily Wentworth (Yale U) at [log in to unmask] If you are interested in hosting a future NERALLT meeting or would like to participate in its organization, please contact NERALLT's program coordinator: Audrey Sartiaux (Union College) at [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************