--- Forwarded Message from Mary Beth Barth <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:22:42 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Mary Beth Barth <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: NEALL 2001 Conference Call for Proposals Conference Announcement and Call for Proposals Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALL) State University of New York at Stony Brook, March 23-25, 2001 "Integration of Technology into Language Learning: Practical Concerns and Questions" The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology will hold its annual conference on March 23-25,2001 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in its Language Learning and Research Center. The theme of the conference will be "Integration of Technology into Language Learning: Practical Concerns and Questions". We are interested in presentations, panels, and discussion about how better to integrate technology into language teaching and learning, both from the instructor's viewpoint and from the Center Director's viewpoint. This message is a call for workshops for the meeting, proposals for the meeting (abstracts of up to 250 words), a call for suggested topics for group discussion (especially practical matters Directors have to tackle), as well as an invitation to attend and be a part of all discussions. Deadline for abstracts and topics submission is February 5,2001 and should be sent to [log in to unmask] Please include the following information in your e-mail: Presenter's name, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone and fax number,technology needs. Conference registration is $30.00 and the deadline is March 2. Workshops are an additional $10 each. Late registration is $40.00 and subject to availability. Please check the NEALL website at http://neall.swarthmore.edu for more information after January 15, 2001. Stony Brook is on the beautiful North shore of Long Island, NY (Great Gatsby/F. Scott Fitzgerald country). It is 60 miles from Manhattan, NYC, accessible via highway, ferry from Connecticut, or air (its local airport, Islip, is a Southwest Airlines airport). Further details about the University are available from the University web page at http://www.sunysb.edu while information about travel and the area is available from http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/doit.nsf/pages/about . If you need additional local information please contact Mike Ledgerwood at [log in to unmask] or 631 632-6914 with voice mail, or Kris Vandenberg at the Center 631 632-7013. The University does not reopen until Jan. 24th so Kris may not be at the phone much until then. There is voice mail with this phone as well, however, so you may leave a message. As an additional note of interest, the LLRC at Stony Brook will be hosting an ACTFL/IALL/Houghton Mifflin workshop giving an introduction to using technology for language learning just before NEALL. Mary Beth Barth Director, Critical Languages Program and Language Center Hamilton College 198 College Hill Rd Clinton, New York 13323 [log in to unmask] (315) 859-4776