Announcing SWALLT Online Webinar – Friday, March 9th, 2012, 12pm Pacific

Unveiling the New Stanford Digital Language Lab; A Collaborative Webinar about Designing Next Generation Language Labs

• Beth McCullough - Senior Learning Spaces Manager, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
• Joseph Kautz - Head, Stanford Digital Language Lab

Please join us for a collaborative webinar about the new Stanford Digital Language Lab to open Summer 2014.  Beth McCullough, Senior Learning Spaces Manager, will join us to describe her design approach to the new Academic Computing Services Facility where the Digital Language Lab will be located.  We will unveil the latest architectural drawings of the new Language Lab and give everyone a tour of the Lab spaces.  We would like to draw upon the experience and talent of webinar participants for suggestions and comments in this interactive SWALLT webinar.

Please join us Friday, March 9th, 12pm-1pm PST in the LARC BlackBoardCollaborate System.

WEBINAR LOG IN INSTRUCTIONS

1. Select the following URL or copy it into your web browser to log-in to the webinar room: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2009202&password=M.A09DEB31DD058A985DD6BA6BFECE4D
2. Enter your name (as you want it to appear in the webinar room)
3. Press “OK,” “Run”, or “Open” to start the program
4. If asked if you trust this program, select “Yes” or “OK”
5. If asked about your Internet connection, select “DSL”
6. Depending on the speed of your connection (we recommend wired over wireless) it will take a few seconds before you are auto-placed into the classroom. Please be patient when logging in
7. It is best to log in 15-20 minutes before the presentation

Here is a video tutorial that can also guide people who have trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtkpEt2QDY&feature=player_embedded

Announcing the January SWALLT Online! Web Conference

DATE - Friday, January 13th, 2012  - New Year’s Day! (Julian Calendar)

TOPIC - Customizing Streaming Video Playback: A Progress Report

SPEAKER- IALLT President-Elect, Harold Hendricks,  BYU Humanities Technology & Research Center

Description: Last year at IALLT 2011 we introduced a system for customizable playback of streaming video. Since then, we have worked to improve the player functionality and implemented the technology within the Spanish curriculum.  A team of developers have created a “video text” base on the Columbian telenovella Yo soy Betty, la fea that was piloted last semester and is again being used with enhanced features this semester.  The presentation will describe the history of the project, the development of the content and a demonstration of the player and authoring tools.

Please join us this Friday, January 13th, 12pm-1pm PST in the LARC BlackBoardCollaborate System. - http://tinyurl.com/6vn5ors

SWALLT Online INFO and INSTRUCTIONS

What is SWALLT Online?

SWALLT Online is a monthly web conference given by professionals in the field of language learning technology.  These web conferences feature projects and the latest innovations in the field and are accompanied by informal but substantive discussion.

BlackBoard Collaborate Instructions (Headset recommended)
1. Go to this link.

Full Link - https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2009202&password=M.A09DEB31DD058A985DD6BA6BFECE4D

2. Enter a name in the Session Login.  For example, JuanDoe@XYZ University.

3. Click on Log In button.  The Client will launch.  This can take up to a minute.  You may need to update your java runtime environment and you may be prompted to indicate the speed of your network connection.

3. After launching, you should appear in the SWALLT Web Conference Room.

Evan Rubin of LARC has posted a BlackBoard Collaborate log in tutorial  at the following link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtkpEt2QDY&feature=related

Felix Kronenberg (Assistant Professor and Director of the Language Learning Center, Rhodes College) will present a recent grant-funded digital storytelling initiative at Rhodes College. His presentation will cover various aspects of digital storytelling in the L2 curriculum, such as identity and identities formation, automaticity, motivation, individualization and individual learner differences, agency, multimodality, learner anxiety and “losing face,” narrative structure, and assessment.

More info on the speaker: http://www.rhodes.edu/modernlanguages/21054_21066.asp

Please join us this Friday, December 9th, 12pm-1pm PST in the LARC BlackBoardCollaborate System.

What is SWALLT Online?
SWALLT Online is a monthly web conference given by professionals in the field of language learning technology for the benefit of SWALLT members. These web conferences allow for detailed views on exciting projects and the latest innovations in the field and are always accompanied by informal but rigorous discussion.

BlackBoard Collaborate Instructions (Headset recommended)
1. Go to this link.  http://tinyurl.com/6vn5ors
2. Enter a name in the Session Login and click on Log In button. The Client will launch. You may need to update your java runtime environment and you may be prompted to indicate the speed of your network connection.
3. After launching, you should appear in the SWALLT Web Conference Room.

Evan Rubin of LARC has posted a BlackBoard Collaborate log in tutorial at the following link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtkpEt2QDY&feature=related