From Chalkboard to Blackboard:

From Chalkboard to Blackboard:
New Technologies for Language Teaching & Learning

February 6 and 7, 2004

at

San Jacinto College Central
Pasadena, Texas
(Greater Houston Area)
Sponsors

Thursday, February 5

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Pre-conference session:

Tour of Rice University's Language Resource Center

The tour will take place from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Please let Claire Bartlett (bartlett@rice.edu) know if you plan to attend. A van will be provided to go from San Jacinto to Rice and back. Please let Claire know if you plan on taking it or will use your own transportation. After the Lab tour, the van will take you to Rice Village where you will be dropped off to eat at a restaurant of your choice. The van will leave to return you to San Jacinto or your hotel around 8:30 p.m.

The van will leave from San Jacinto College Central at 4:00 p.m.
Meet at the front door of the Interactive Learning Center.

(Transportation sponsored by Rice University)

Friday, February 6

All Friday conference sessions will be held in the Teaching Theater (T155) of the Interactive Learning Center (ILC).
There will also be an Exhibitors' Area in the ILC.

8:00-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast in the Kaleidoscope Room (T102) in the ILC (sponsored by San Jacinto College South)
9:00-9:15 a.m.	Welcome
9:15-9:45 a.m.	Session # 1: Creating a Truly Multilingual Digital Environment for our Students Claire Bartlett, Rice University Demonstration
9:55-10:25 a.m.	Session # 2 : Incorporating Technology In Outcomes Assessment Teresa H. Johnson and Riahna Weakley, Saint Louis University Paper
10:35-11:05 a.m.	Session # 3: Personalizing Instruction with Blackboard Delia Méndez Montesinos, University of Texas at Austin Paper
11:15-11:45 a.m.	Session # 4: Web-based Student Activities Manual Tom Condon and Hildegart Hoquee, Vista Higher Learning Demonstration
11:45-1:15 p.m.	Lunch in the Ballroom in the Student Center. (sponsored by San Jacinto College Central)
1:20-2:10 p.m.	Tour of San Jacinto College Central's Technology Facilities
2:15-3:15 p.m.	Exhibitors' Session
3:20-3:50 p.m.	Session # 5: Combining Distance and Language Immersion: Culture and History of Germany Donovan Anderson and Hella Hennessee, University of Dallas Paper
3:50-4:15 p.m.	Refreshments
4:15-4:45 p.m.	Session # 6: Threaded Discussions: Providing Discourse-Level Grammar Practice Donald Weasenforth, Collin County Community College Paper
4:55-5:25 p.m.	Session # 7: Technology-enhanced Chinese Teaching Chao-mei Shen and Meng Yeh, Rice University Paper
Evening	Dinner on your own. A van will be available to take you to the Kemah Boardwalk, where there are restaurants and speciality shops by the water.

Saturday, February 7

All Saturday presentations except for the workshops (sessions # 10 and #11) will be held in the Teaching Theater (T155) of the ILC.
Session #10 will be in T130 of the ILC. Session #11 will be in the Foreign Language Lab, 111 Administration Building.

8:00-9:00 a.m	Breakfast in the Kaleidoscope Room (T102) in the ILC. (sponsored by San Jacinto College South)
9:00-9:30 a.m.	Session # 8: Teaching Spanish via the Internet: Caveat, Challenges, and Achievements Robert A. Quinn, Jackson State University Paper
9:40-10:10 a.m	Session # 9: Teaching Romance Linguistics to Nonlinguists: Using Blackboard to Create a Community of Learners Stuart Stewart, Southeastern Louisiana University Demonstration
10:20-11:50 a.m.	Session # 10: Creating Multimedia Exercises with Dreamweaver's CourseBuilder Hajime Kumahata, Rice University Workshop (Intermediate Level) Session # 11: Using PowerPoint to Teach, Play, and Engage Students Karima Benremouga, San Jacinto College Central Workshop (Beginning Level)
12:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.	Lunch (sponsored by San Jacinto College District Distance Learning Office)
1:15-1:45 p.m.	Business Meeting
2:00-2:30 p.m.	Session # 12: Customizing Graphics for Online Language Courses: Examples from Spanish John P. Sullivan, Prairie View A&M University Paper
2:40-3:10 p.m	Session # 13: Using the Internet to Teach ESOL Reading Ava Zinn, Elizabeth Cazner and Carolyn Poole, San Jacinto College Central Demonstration

We acknowledge with gratitude the generous support of the following sponsors of SOCALLT 2004.

ASC Direct
Apple Computers
McGraw-Hill
Houghton Mifflin
Multimedia Learning Systems
Teaching Systems
Vista Higher Learning