Presentor Bio Information
| 1. Denise Aalbu | Emphasing Computer Literacy in the Target Language at the High School Level |
| Denise Aalbu holds an M.A. in French Literature from Ohio State University and a B.A. in French from CSU Long Beach. Since 1985 she has provided tutoring services for adults and children. For the past three years she has been a French Immersion instructor at Sacramento High School. | |
| 2. Tom Abbott | Forum 1: Desktop Movies |
| Thomas F. Abbott, DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee, lectures in Japanese Area Studies at California State Univervity Monterey Bay where he has developed courses in Japanese Culture and Civilization, Pop-Culture, Cinema and, The Japanese Mind, Japanese Economic History, and Business, and the Japanese-American Experience. His interdisciplinary background includes economics, psychology, business administration, computer science and international management studies. He has taught in America and Japan and served for seventeen years as the Executive Director of PEACE¥USA a private non-profit multinational educational exchange foundation. He has consulted with and worked in major U.S. and Japanese high tech firms including NEC, Apple Computer, and Mitsubishi Steel. He developed a multimedia simulation for ÒBusiness JapaneseÓ at The University of Texas at Austin. Since 1993 he has been involved in teacher training and professional development for foreign language teachers. His publications have focused on the application of computers to language instruction. In addition to teaching, he is currently serving an executive member of the California Japanese Framework Project Steering Committee, and as Technology Director for the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project. | |
| 3. Tony Beld | How to Supplement Language Instruction with Online Streaming Interactivity |
| Tony C. Beld is a French instructor at Central Missouri State University. He is in the process of completing his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis in French Linguistics. Mr. Beld teaches phonetics, culture and beginning and intermediate French courses at CMSU. He uses online exercises and streaming video and audio to supplement his instruction. Currently, he is researching online testing and database management at CMSU. | |
| 4. Ron Bergmann | |
| 5. Maureen Bowman | Teaching & Learning Online: Doing it by doing it |
| 5. Carly J. Born |
CALL Training for In-service Teachers: The Salinas CALL Program Using Multimedia to Teach Japanese Dialects for Language Awareness |
| Carly has a B.A. in Japanese from North Central College in Illinois, and has spent over 3 years living and working in Japan. While teaching English to junior high school students in Niigata Prefecture, Carly began studying two Japanese martial arts: kyudo (Japanese long-bow archery) and naginata, an art traditionally practiced by women. Her experiences in Japan led her to the field of Japanese language instructor. She is currently finishing her MA in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where she is also completing a Certificate in Language Program Administration and a specialty in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Upon graduation, she hopes to continue teaching Japanese, while pursuing her interest in developing CALL materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages. | |
| 6. Kiril P. Boyadjieff | |
| Associate Professor, Educational Technology Mr. Kiril Boyadjieff joined DLIFLC in 1982 as an instructor of Bulgarian language and culture. Since then he has worked as a curriculum and materials developer, faculty trainer, educational technologist and project manager/programmer on a number of key foreign language courseware development projects. Presently, he serves as coordinator of the Educational Technology Division, School for Continuing Education in which he directs all CD-ROM and Web-delivered software production. Mr. Boyadjieff's specializations include design and adaptation of foreign language methods to modern technologies in order to meet the language proficiency sustainment and enhancement needs of DLI graduates. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mr. Boyadjieff received a BA degree in music education and violin studies from the Bulgarian National Conservatory. He holds an MA in the teaching of foreign languages from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an MS degree in human resources management from Chapman University. For the past 20 years, Mr. Boyadjieff has had a continuing commitment to PC technologies, programming, and networking. | |
| 7. Richard Brecht | Emerging
Technologies and Developing Methodologies: Learner-Managed Pedagogy and Mentor-Supported Autogogy |
| Richard Brecht, Keynote Speaker, is currently the Director of the National Foreign Language Center in Washington, D. C, with which he has been associated since its founding in 1986. Having received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literatures, he is currently professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Maryland at College Park and visiting professor at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Brecht has been a principal in the founding of a number of national organizations and projects: American Councils for International Education/ACTR-ACCELS (for which he serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees), the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Project EELIAS (Evaluation of Exchange, Language, International and Area Studies), LangNet (the Language Network), and Project ICONS (International Communication and Negotiation Simulations). Dr. Brecht has authored numerous books and articles on language policy, second language acquisition, and Slavic and Russian linguistics; and he has received rewards from a number of national and international organizations in the language field. | |
| 8. Karen Clysdale | Asynchronous Learning on the Web |
| Karen Clysdale received her undergraduate degree in French and International Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1999. She is currently a graduate student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She plans to have her M.A. in International Policy Studies with an emphasis on French in 2002. Ms. Clysdale has spent the past six summers teaching French for the Concordia Language Villages and coordinating their UN Summit for the past three years. In the past the summit has covered topics ranging from child refugees to protecting children in areas of armed conflict. Last summer participants discussed (in thirteen languages) UNICEFÕs World Summit for Children 2000. | |
| 9. Randall Davis | Joining
the Multimedia Revolution Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Making a Bang on the Internet |
| Randall Davis is an instructor at the English Language Institute, University of Utah, and he received his M.A. in TESL from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Randall is the creator of the popular online listening site, RandallÕs ESL Cyber Listening Lab (http://www.esl-lab.com) which uses streaming audio and video technology to deliver language-learning content for self-access learning. | |
| 10. Richard Donovan |
What We Can Do with Technology: Curriculum Integrationand the use of Technology |
| Richard Donovan is a member of the DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee and currently serves as Deputy Director of the CSU Office of Organizational Relations and Program Development and as the Special Projects Officer for CSU Monterey BayÕs Office of the Provost. For the past five years with CSUMB, he has helped to develop regional public/private collaborative projects and a number of innovative partnerships to promote second language acquisition, assessment and teaching. A former Foreign Area Officer with the Department of Defense, Mr. Donovan holds a MasterÕs degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Prior to his working at CSUMB, he served as founding Associate Dean at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language CenterÕs School of Middle East II where Arabic and Persian languages and culture were taught. | |
| 11. Dr. Mamdouh El-Nady | |
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M.A. in Foreign language Education with a Graduate Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language. Ed.D. in International & Multicultural Education - Emphasis on Foreign language Pedagogy & Culture Studies with a minor in Educational Computing. Dr. El-Nady is an Assistant Professor at Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California. He served as a team leader & acting chairperson, and as certified tester. He conducted a need analysis for Arabic Video Teletraining (VTT) program, wrote the VTT Arabic tests, and developed the 24 weeks Arabic conversion course. His areas of expertise are Arabic language and culture, pedagogy. Dr. El-NadyÕs current research interests include teaching methodology, Internet-based instruction and technology, and developing L2 writing skills. Latest articles include Teaching Arabic Culture through Language Analysis: Use of Pronouns in the Egyptian Dialect and Drama as a Teaching Technique at Foreign Language Classroom. Latest conference presentations include Computer-Based Writing Tools in Second Language Learning, Emerging Technology in Teaching Languages and Culture and Video Conferencing and it's Use in Arabic Culture & Language Learning |
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| 12. Maria Erickson | Lab Orientation Modules and Language Modules using the Tegrity WebLearner System |
| Maria Erickson received her B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from UCLA. Her language teaching experience began as a T.A. at UCLA, after which she taught at Immaculate Heart College for several years. Maria is currently an assistant professor of Spanish at Santa Monica College where she has taught since 1986. She was a member of the committee that researched language lab options for SMC, chaired the Lab Installation Committee during the Fall of 1998 and since January of 1999 has been the Faculty Contact for the Tandberg SMC Modern Language Laboratory. Maria has been a computer enthusiast for a while and is often on the early adopter lists of SMC Technology Projects. She has prepared a number of computer lessons for class presentation and for student independent review in the Language Lab and she regularly uses the internet to enhance communication with her students via her homepage, and the use of the SMC web-based Virtual Office Hours. | |
| 13. Emilio Esquibel | |
| 14. Jill Frazer | An Interactive Expedition: Using the Internet to Motivate L2 Learners |
| A 1988 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University with a double major in Business Administration and Spanish, Jill Frazer chose to follow her love of the Spanish language and teaches advanced level Spanish at Southeast High School, Lincoln, Nebraska. Ms. Frazer is well traveled and has studied in Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. She has participated in four MayaQuest adventures, and her passion for technology led to her participation in a state-awarded, multimedia grant in 1998. Ms. Frazer can frequently be found "tinkering" with technology as she completes her MEd in Curriculum and Instruction with a major in Instructional Technology. Her Spanish students benefit from her computer know-how through a myriad of technology/multimedia activities and projects that she incorporates into the curriculum. | |
| 15. Brigitta Geltrich-Ludgate | When Teaching Requests Outnumber Teacher Resources, What Do You Do? |
| Brigitta Geltrich-Ludgate received a BA/MA in Germanic Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and completed PhD studies in Germanic Linguistics and Folklore at the University of California Berkeley and Los Angeles. She is currently working as Distance Learning Coordinator Specialist at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. She started as German instructor, became trainer for the Faculty and Staff Division. In 1990, she became Branch Chief of Technology Training. With her staff she designed interactive templates for foreign language lessons in Toolbook. She now holds a position as Associate Professor of Distance Learning, has written training material for DLIÕs resident and nonresident students, published in journals, and presented at ACTFL, BILC, CALICO, DECOLE, Georgetown University, Interagency Language Roundtable, MLA, Pacific Coast Philological Association and TESOL. Currently she is working with her staff on creative scheduling, where Video Teletraining classes are interspersed with carefully designed Internet activities. | |
| 16. Maurice Gendron | A French Poetry e-Book |
| Dr. Maurice Gendron holds a Ph.D. in 19th Century French Literature from UCLA. He has been Professor of French at CSU Fresno since 1969. For the last two years he has been President of the CSU Foreign Language Council. Dr. Gendron has taught distance education classes between CSU Fresno and its satellite campus at College of the Sequoias in Visalia. He is interested in developing language and literature courses for the web. The French poetry multimedia textbook which he is presenting at this conference is a first attempt at incorporating the WWW in French literature courses. | |
| 17. Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt | Emulating the Language Lab with "LangLab |
| Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt holds a MA in English from the Sorbonne (Paris, France). She is a Senior Lecturer in the French Department at UC Berkeley. Her teaching focuses on Phonetics and Listening Comprehension, as well as French for Business. | |
| 18. Olivier Goldschmidt | Emulating the Language Lab with "LangLab |
| Dr Olivier Goldschmidt received his doctorate in operations research in 1988 from the University of California at Berkeley. He held several academic jobs before joining Make Systems in 1998. Goldschmidt's research interests are in network design and combinatorial optimization. | |
| 19. Rafael Gomez | |
| 20. Lev Gonick | |
| DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee, | |
| 21. Dan Granger | Teaching & Learning Online: Doing it by doing it |
| 22. Carol Green | |
| 23. Kawther Hakim | |
| 24. John Ittelson | |
| DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee, | |
| 25. Peter Jenson | |
| 26. Sachiko Kamioka | On-line standards-based assessment of Japanese |
| Sachiko Kamioka is a research assistant for the Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies. She has been involved in many projects including the development of a standards-based, on-line assessment of proficiency in Japanese and a software program called PEP, which walks Japanese and Spanish teachers through the process of planning for proficiency and also provides access to an on-line teaching material database. She is also a video producer. She is currently filming and editing videos for second language teacher education modules. She received an M.A. in Japanese pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and has taught Japanese at Willamette University. | |
| 27. Cheryl Kuhlmann | |
| Cheryl Kuhlmann has been a French teacher for twenty years and has also taught ESL. For the past twelve years she has been doing a combination of French and student activities. Since 1995 she has been part of the James Logan High School technology team and is now one of ten digital high school coaches. 2001 also marks her second year as a member of the California Foreign Language Advisory Board. | |
| 28. Young Kim | |
| 29. Ryu Kitajima | |
| 30. Steve Koppany | Development and Implementation of Online Courses at the Defense Language Institute |
| Associate Professor Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center Steve Koppany joined the Defense Language Institute in 1980. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and an M.A. in International Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As manager of the Diagnostic Profiles Assessment Division between 1998-1999, he oversaw DLIÕs resident and nonresident diagnostic services in Arabic, Korean, Russian and Spanish. Prior to his assignment to this position, he had served as a teacher, supervisor and chairperson of Hungarian; branch chief of Hungarian, Bulgarian and Serbian/Croatian; Video Teletraining coordinator, CAS project manager and faculty development specialist and supervisor. Currently, he serves as the Academic Associate Dean at the School for Continuing Education at the DLI. Mr. Koppany has given presentations and conducted workshops at the annual conferences of ACTFL and CALICO. For a period of two years, he served as Assistant Head of Hungarian Research and Analysis at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. His accomplishments include several dozen professional articles and analytical pieces in the fields of international relations and foreign language education. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to special projects and the overall DLI mission. | |
| 31. Eunji Lee | Korean Sustainment CD & Spanish Interactive Video Program |
| 32. Robert Lee | |
| 33. Gus Leonard | Forum 4: Lab Design & Installation |
| Gus Leonard, DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee, is currently the Coordinator of the IWLC Language Laboratory at California State University Monterey Bay. He came here after working at the CLA Language Center and teaching Swedish at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, from 1991-2000. During a hiatus from studies, 1995-1998, he taught English as a Foreign Language in Yamanashi-Ken, Japan. Gus is completing his M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language with supporting fields in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures and Instructional Technology at the University of Minnesota. His thesis topic is the support and facilitation of writing for foreign language learners in a technology-enhanced classroom. He has participated in exchange programs with Uppsala Universitet, Sweden and H‡skoli êslands, Reykjav’k, Iceland. Current projects include work on the Virtual Language Lab-Japanese project for the Strategic Language Initiative out of the CSU System ChancellorÕs Office and serving as Co-President for the Association of CSU Language Center Directors. | |
| 34. Robin Martin | |
| 35. Bianca Martinez | Emphasing Computer Literacy in the Target Language at the High School Level |
| Beate Martinez holds a B.A. in History and German from Pepperdine University and an M.S. in Social Studies Education from Florida International University. For the past five years she has been a full-time instructor of Social Studies, Spanish and German at Sacramento High School. She also teaches World History and Spanish at the Summer School associated with her High School. | |
| 36. Enrico Monteleone | |
| Enrico Monteleone is currently an Integrated Studies Special Major student at CSUMB as well a part-time technical assistant at the CSUMB World Languages and Cultures computer lab. Enrico worked independently as a computer consultant in Silicon Valley from 1992 until moving to the Monterey Bay Area in 1998. His job titles included software engineer, database administrator, systems and network administrator. Prior to 1992, Enrico served in the United States Army as a satellite communications technician and was stationed in Okinawa, Japan for three years. His major here at CSUMB is allowing him to integrate his strong computer science background with his Japanese studies. He hopes to find employment in Japan after graduating in 2002. | |
| 37. Kimi Nomura | |
| 38. Zenon Obydzinski | |
| 39. Yoko Pusavat | |
| 40. Allison M. Rainville |
CALL Training for In-service Teachers: The Salinas CALL Program Using Powerpoint to Teach Academic Speaking and Listening |
| Allison Rainville is a recent graduate of the Master's Degree Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As part of her Master's, she spent two years teaching English in Bulgaria with the United States Peace Corps. Her technology background is largely self-taught, as she is the "black sheep" in a techie family and would not otherwise fit in. Before she started her MA, she was a teaching assistant in the computer program at a middle school in Andover, Massachusetts, and was the assistant director of the first comp_camp@brooks summer camp at Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. She has co-taught a graduate-level course on Online and Distance Language Education at the Monterey Institute and currently teaches public speaking and 300-level writing in the English Studies program there. | |
| 41. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott | Outlining the beginnings of the CSU Virtual Language Lab. Project |
| Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, DigitalStream Conference Chair, is Associate Professor of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. She directs the Japanese language and area studies programs and offers first, third and fourth year Japanese language courses. Dr. Saito brings pedagogical expertise and her rich experience in designing technology enhanced, proficiency-oriented curriculua and language programs. She won national recognition for developing an innovative Professional Development / Credentialing Model for in-service teachers in the state of Texas. She is currently site-director of the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project, Dr. Saito has wide rage of research activities. She has published articles in the areas of reading comprehension, teacher education, Business Japanese, and computer assisted language instruction and has delivered numerous papers at learned societies. Her recent publications on second language acquisition and Japanese language pedagogy are found in Journals such as The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, CALICO Journal, The Journal for Language for International Business. She has also published textbooks and Japanese language teaching computer assisted language-learning programs. She conducts numerous workshops on professional development. She recently organized a state wide Technology conference entitled Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures. | |
| 42. Jorge Salazar | Korean Sustainment CD & Spanish Interactive Video Program |
| Born and raised in Chile, Jorge Salazar did undergraduate and graduate work in the United States. He has served as a technology specialist in the Educational Technology Division at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center since 1987, and as a course and test developer at the same location for the previous fourteen years. In these capacities he has had an opportunity to create learning materials in many languages for a wide range of users and to develop experience in the various versions of DOS, MacOS and Windows that have evolved over the years. Among the language teaching software programs which he has worked on are a series of Vietnamese, German, Korean, Portuguese and French CAS courses for the Special Forces, a Czech Proficiency Improvement Course, a Spanish voice recognition prototype, a Persian sustainment course, several types of Spanish listening and reading exercises, and the Spanish Interactive Video Program being demonstrated at this conference. | |
| 43. Peter Schultz | |
| 44. Gustavo Segade | |
| 45. Thomas Simpson | Making an Italian Soap Opera with iMac |
| Thomas Simpson, Special Guest Speaker, is Sr.Lecturer in Italian at Northwestern University, where he collaborates with the MultiMedia language Center on educational technology projects. His PhD is from the University of Chicago, 1998, with a dissertation on Medieval Italian merchant writing. As a language teacher he has specialized in performance-based language projects, including a Futurist Performance collaboration with Northwestern's School of Speech and a collaboration with Italian actor Marco Paolini that has performed in Chicago, in Boulder, Colorado, at Berkeley, and at the Italian Cultural Institutes in Los Angeles and Washington DC. | |
| 46. Christine Sleeter | Using technology to teach culture: Culture, Difference and Power. |
| Christine Sleeter is a Professor in the Center for Collaborative Education and Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she coordinates the Master of Arts in Education program. She writes and consults widely on multicultural education, and on multicultural teacher education. She has published in numerous journals, including Theory into Practice, Harvard Educational Review, and Journal of Teacher Education. Her most recent books include Multicultural Education as Social Activism (SUNY Press, 1996) and Turning on Learning (with Carl Grant, Wiley, 1996). She has just completed a multimedia e-book, Culture, Difference and Power (Teachers College Press, 2001), which will be featured in her presentation. | |
| 47. Susan Smith | Language . . . Action . . . Camera!!! |
| Susan Smith is the World Language Curriculum Specialist for the Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska, and leads curriculum and instruction efforts for the district's K-12 language program offerings in Chinese, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. Ms. Smith coordinates staff development for 70 language teachers and has presented at state, regional, and national meetings. She has written funded-grants, curriculum for a major publisher, researched-position papers for the State of Nebraska's standards project, and received awards and recognition for her innovative teaching. As an adjunct instructor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nebraska Wesleyan University, she integrated technology into a methods course and supervised student teachers on-line. She directs and supports a district-sanctioned study abroad program for high school students each Spring | |
| 48. Judith Snyder | |
| 49. Chrissy Sowell | Language . . . Action . . . Camera!!! |
| Chrissy Sowell teaches French at Dawes Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska. Last year as a teacher-leader of the KNOW-YOUR-NEIGHBOR STUDY TOURS, the district's study abroad program, Ms. Sowell captured students' authentic experiences with a camcorder in France and translated them into a promotional I-Movie video. Ms. Sowell represents her department at district level liaison meetings and recently designed a language/culture class for sixth grade students where students explore languages and cultures through multicultural education and the fine and performing arts. | |
| 50. Wayne Stromberg | Outlining
the beginnings of the CSU Virtual Language Lab. Project Forum 4: Lab Design & Installation |
| Dr. Stromberg has been director and coordinator of San Diego State UniversityÕs foreign language facilities since 1980; he currently is Director of Operations of the Multimedia Laboratory in the universityÕs Language Acquisition Resource Center. He has designed several labs, and is a frequent presenter at professional meetings in the southwestern United States. | |
| 51. Jami Swanson | Language . . . Action . . . Camera!!! |
| Jami Swanson currently teaches Spanish at Pound Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska. Through a variety of instructional techniques, Ms. Swanson immerses her students in language and culture and develops their appetites for technology. As a teacher-leader of the district's study abroad program last year, she was instrumental in transitioning the poster/slide show format of promotional materials for the study tours to that of an I-Movie video. Ms. Swanson represents her department at district level liaison meetings and has participated in field testing new technology with students as part of the district's World Language Study. | |
| 52. Donaldo Urioste | |
| 53. Michael L. Vezlich | |
| 54. Vitaly Volmensky | |
| 55. Mark Warschauer | Language Teaching in the Information Technology Society |
| Mark Warschauer, Keynote Speaker, is the author or editor of six books on the intersection of language, literacy, and technology--including Internet for English Teaching, Network-Based Langauage Teaching, Electronic Literacies, Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning, and Virtual ConnectionsÑand the author of more than 100 papers on the topic. He is the founding editor of Language Learning & Technology journalÑpublished since 1997 on the World Wide WebÑand the recipient of the 1998 TOEFL Policy Council Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Technology and Language Acquisition. From 1998-2001 he was director of educational technology on a large US-funded language education program in Egypt. Dr. Warschauer has taught and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of HawaiÕi; Moscow Linguistics University; and Charles University in Prague. He is now teaching in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine and continuing his research on language, literacy, and technology. | |
| 56. Jeff Winters | |
| 57. Mimi Yu | Designing Online Instructional Materials |
| Mimi Yu is Lecturer and Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Nevada, Reno. Mimi received her Bachelor's degree in Japanese Studies from Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, and her Master's degree in Japanese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She arrived in Reno in 1989 and created the Japanese language program there. It now offers a Japanese studies minor with approximately 70 students in the language program and another 30 students in the Japanese culture class. Mimi has used her course web site to teach classes for the last two years, and today she is going to share with us some ideas on how to design online instructional materials for language classes | |