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SOCALL'98

Language Learning Technology for the New Century

Tulane University

Friday, March 27
 
8:00 - 8:45   Registration and Continental Breakfast, hosted by Tulane University
8:45 - 9:00   Tulane and SOCALL Conference Welcoming Remarks
  Teresa S. Soufas, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  Sara Wilson, Director, Tulane Language Learning Center
  Claire Bartlett, President, SOCALL
9:00 - 9:45   Tom Klinger, Tulane University, 
  "Cajun and Creole French in Louisiana: A Multimedia Cultural Experience"
10:00 - 10:45   Jan Marston, Southern Methodist University,
  "Constructing Language Courseware - A Learning Experience"
11:00 - 12:00   Exhibitors' Session; with McGraw-Hill Publishers,HiEd/ Apple Computers, 
  Industrial Communications/Sony, American Electronics/AMX, International 
  Association for Language Learning Technology 
12:00 - 1:00   lunch hosted by McGraw-Hill Publishers
1:00 - 1:45   Barbette Spaeth, Tulane University,
  "Domestic Space in Cyberspace: MOOing the Roman House" 
  (will include information on language learning and MOO technology)
2:00 - 2:45   Ute Lahaie, Baylor University, 
 "Technology for Technophobes"
3:00 - 3:45   Jon Blake, East Texas Baptist University,
  "The Virtual Global Village: The World Wide Web, Instructional Technology, 
  and the Communicative Language Classroom"
4:00 - 4:45   Graciela Daichman and Shisha van Horn, Rice University,
  "Teaching Beginning Spanish in the Age of Technology"
6:00   Group dinner at local restaurant (not included in registration fee)

 

Saturday, March 28
8:00 - 8:45   Continental breakfast hosted by Industrial Communications
9:00 - 9:45   Joseph Magedanz, McNeese State University, 
  "Using HTML to Create Interactive German Worksheets"
10:00 - 10:45   Virginia Lewis, Southwestern University, 
   "The Fairy Tale and Other Annotated Projects in French, German, and Spanish"
11:00 - 11:45   SOCALL Business Meeting
12:00 - 1:00   Lunch hosted by Apple Computers
1:00 - 1:45  Larry Howard, Industrial Communications, 
 Cheetah Video Server Demonstration
2:00 - 2:45   Harry Howard, Tulane University, 
 "Electronic Resource for Spanish Pronunciation"
3:00 - 4:00  Claire Bartlett, University of Houston,
  "Creating Homepages the Simple Way" (miniworkshop)