--- Forwarded Message from "Sartiaux, Audrey N." <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: NERALLT Spring 08 meeting Call for proposals >Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:38:07 -0500 >Thread-Topic: NERALLT Spring 08 meeting Call for proposals >Thread-Index: Ach/uThsd+K9n9RoROKx9Rt6G13Bhg== >From: "Sartiaux, Audrey N." <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> NERALLT 2008 Spring Meeting "Language Learning in Action: Moving Images in a Digital World" May 1-2, 2008 - Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS -- DEADLINE: MARCH 25 We cordially invite submissions to the Spring meeting of the New England Regional Association of Language Learning Technology, hosted by Wesleyan University on May 1-2, 2008. The Spring Program Committee includes: Co-chairs, Emily Wentworth (Yale U) and Mark Knowles (Yale U); Host, Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret (Wesleyan U). 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. PROPOSALS NERALLT is going to take a broad view of this phenomenon, providing an avenue for the demonstration of these technologies and pedagogical tools, and their applications for the language resource provider, learner, and teacher. Topics to be explored may include video streaming servers, GIS technology, commercial software for movie-making and digital story-telling, cross-cultural exchange using iChat, Skype, and other video-conferencing technologies, video subtitling, YouTube in the classroom, as well as copyright and privacy issues, media literacy, and challenges brought on with the move from teacher-centric to interactive to user-centric practices. NERALLT seeks to maintain a balance between technology and pedagogy in order to share innovative methodologies with conference participants ranging from language teaching professionals, administrators and support staff of language labs, ESL labs, and other centers where technology is applied to language teaching and learning, as well as faculty and teachers (university and K-12) who use technology. Send abstracts (up to 250 words) to Emily Wentworth at [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions: March 25 CONTACT INFORMATION Questions regarding the program and call for presentations should be sent to Emily Wentworth (Yale U) at [log in to unmask] For information about Wesleyan University, please go to: http://www.wesleyan.edu/ For more information regarding NERALLT, and to become a member, please go to: http://www.nerallt.unh.edu/ 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] Audrey Sartiaux, Ph.D. Director, Multimedia Language Center 807 Union Street Union College - Schaffer Library Schenectady, NY 12308 Phone: (518) 388-6216 Fax: (518) 388-6641 *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************