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Screenshot of HTML 5 Video Interface (Image by H. Hendricks-2012)

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

• Submit a session proposal at: http://bit.ly/swallt2012
• Conference website and registration at http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/conf

Felix Kronenberg | Assistant Professor

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

Topic: Sharing is Caring
Presenter: Justin Locsei, Oberlin College

Over the past few years, the Oberlin CILC has developed quite a few in-house tools to make our lives easier.  Some of these tools tackle problems that are common enough to merit sharing, and we have begun making the source code for these applications freely available.  In this presentation, you’ll find out about a few of our more interesting projects, which include a WordPress class-blogging package, a WordPress blog manager and a usage-tracking package for computer labs.  Additionally, you’ll learn how you can install and configure these applications on your own servers and use them to bring peace and tranquility to your work life.

To join the SWALLT Online presentation:

1. Go to this link: http://tinyurl.com/SWALLTOnline
2. Enter a name in the Session Login and click on Log In button, and Blackboard Collaborate will launch. You may need to update Java, and you may need to indicate the speed of your network connection.
3. After launching, you should appear in the SWALLT Web Conference Room.

If this is your first time using Blackboard Collaborate, Evan Rubin from SDSU has created a short video tutorial that will walk you through the login process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtkpEt2QDY

In September’s SWALLT Online, Ryan Brazell addresses the perennial question “If you build it, will the come?” in describing UCSF’s new, state of the art “Technology Commons.” The webinar focused on the state-of-the-art and future directions for learning spaces.  

photo credit: gc communications (via flickr)

I was lucky to start my educational technology career in a highly-respected language center with a lot of personality. For someone with a background in informational technology, this was a revelation: centers didn’t need to be boring, sterile, and intimidating. In fact it’s better for everyone when they’re not. Every couple of years, someone sounds the death knell for learning centers, and frankly I agree: the old model of rows upon endless rows needs to die. Not because, as Joshua Kim asserts, learning centers are being forced into obsolescence by the influx of students with their laptops and iPads and mobile devices. The old model needs to die because it never worked that well to begin with; for decades students have learned in spite of those environments, not because of them. Increased and widespread access to authentic materials and experiences isn’t making anything obsolete, it’s just making it obvious how wrong we’ve been all along.

So then, what should centers look like? How do you build a space that isn’t obsolete before it opens? What do you when you inherit, are told to build, or have no option other than a center that looks like the one above? Please join us at Friday’s kickoff session, or share your thoughts in the comments!

SWALLT Online Returns!

Please join us on Friday Sept.  9th at 12pm-1pm in the LARC BlackBoard Collaborate System (See notes below for connection instructions)

SWALLT is pleased to announce that the SWALLT Online Web Conference has returned.  SWALLT Onlne 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 treatment of exciting projects and the latest innovations in the field and are always accompanied by informal but rigorous discussion.
This month SWALLT President Elect, Ryan Brazell, will kick off the series with a presentation about UCSF’s new Teaching and Learning Center  (see details below) 

If your SWALLT membership has lapsed, or you are not yet a SWALLT member, please renew/join at http://swallt.org or by contacting Pat Miller directly at pmiller@csun.edu.  We look forward to seeing friends old and new at SWALLT Online!

BlackBoard Connect Instructions (Headset recommended/required) - 

Watch Tutorial Here - http://screenr.com/l4Ws

1. Go to this link to LARC BlackBoard Connect.

2. Enter a name (your choice) in the Session Login and click on Log In button.  The Client will launch.  IMPORTANT! You may need to update your java runtime environment and you may be prompted to indicate the speed of your network connection.  The installation wizards pretty much do this for you but it can take up to 10 minutes and a restart.   It is best to test your connection first.  Contact 

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

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More Details about Presentation 

Title: If You Build It, Will They Come? Building the New TechnologyCommons at UCSF

Description: The opening of the UCSF Library’s new Teaching and Learning Center (http://tlc.ucsf.edu) brought together a number of departments and services into one location: interprofessional smart classrooms, the Kanbar Center for clinical simulation and telemedicine, and the Technology Commons, which houses a large lab, a computer classroom, a number of multimedia workstations with specialized hardware and software, as well as support staff for both informational and instructional technologies. This presentation, focused on the Technology Commons, will include a brief review of the planning process, but will largely cover outcomes and lessons learned, as well as the impact these co-located facilities have had on usage of the Technology Commons and other Library services.

The hard work of the IALLT Board and its members has positioned IALLT to become more truly international in scope, and the  organization’s web presence is now infrastructured adequately to uphold and expand IALLT’s mission.  There has never been a more exciting time to be or become an IALLT member.  On behalf of the SWALLT Board, I encourage you to add your voice.

Vote Online - http://www.iallt.org/elections (login required)
You must be an IALLT member in good standing to vote.  You may become a new member or renew your membership on the IALLT site at this link.  If you are unsure whether it is time to renew your IALLT membership, you may inquire at members@iallt.org

Most Sincerely,

Joseph Kautz, President, Southwest Association for Language Learning Technology
Head, Stanford Digital Language Lab

We welcome proposals for individual or joint presentations, panels, workshops, and posters that showcase technology-enhanced language learning and teaching. Our theme is “Sustainable Language Learning Technology” and our focus will be on which current and emerging technologies will best enhance our limited resources. Other related topics will be considered. Please join us if you can.

The deadline for proposal submission is June 15, 2010. Submit your proposal at:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGY4TkQ2U2NnX1l3Zk1ZV3B5aWk0bkE6MQ

or through the link at http://swallt.org/conferences/

See you there.