Registration --- Program --- Travel/Hotel --- Parking
Distance and blended learning environments
NEALLT/NERALLT Fall 2009 Joint Conference
@ Yale University
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The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) and the New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology will hold a joint conference at Yale University, Center for Language Study, October 30-31, 2009.
The conference theme will be “Distance and blended learning environments.”
Our keynote speaker will be Professor Richard Kern, Director of the Berkeley Language Center and Associate Professor of French at the University of California at Berkeley. His talk:
Neither Here Nor There: What Happens to Space, Time, and Culture in CMC Videoconferencing Exchanges
This talk explores how space, time, and culture get represented and negotiated in computer-mediated videoconferences between teacher trainees of French as a foreign language at the University of Lyon 2 and intermediate level French students at UC Berkeley. How adequately does the audio-visual interface render the "real" spatial/temporal settings in which participants are communicating? How does the interface affect representations of the spatial and temporal dimensions of each participant’s local world? How well do participants' envisionments of their interlocutors' spatial/temporal settings match the "real" settings, and what consequences come of mismatches? To what extent are participants aware of the role of the technological medium itself in forming its own context of setting? Conclusions will highlight the important role that interfaces play in the dynamics of collaborative multimedia teaching.
Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved for conference participants at the Premiere Hotel and Suites. The conference rate is $133 plus tax, which includes a studio suite, breakfast, and a shuttle to the Yale campus. You must mention the NEALLT/NERALLT Conference to qualify for this rate. Reservations must be made by September 29, 2009.
Premiere Hotel and Suites
3 Long Wharf Drive
New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Web: http://www.newhavensuites.com/
Phone: (203) 777-5337
Fax: (203) 777-2808Special Rate: $133.00 plus tax (Valid until 9/29/09)
Travel Information
Yale Transportation information.
Parking arrangements have been changed to the Grove Street Garage, which is only one block from our facility. Directions to the garage are as follows:
From New York by way of I-95 Northbound:
1. From I-95 bear left onto I-91 North. (Exit #48)
2. Take I-91 North to Exit 3 (Trumbull Street exit).
3. At end of ramp take a left onto Orange Street.
4. At the light take a right onto Grove Street
5. ½ block on the right is the Grove Street Garage - drive in and take a ticket.
6. Parking is located on floors 4 & 5 for the NEALLT/NERALLT Conference.
From Hartford and points north:
1. Take I-91 South to Exit 3 (Trumbull Street exit).
2. At end of ramp take a left onto Orange Street.
3. At the light take a right onto Grove Street
4. ½ block on the right is the Grove Street Garage - drive in and take a ticket.
5. Parking is located on floors 4 & 5 for the NEALLT/NERALLT Conference.
When you arrive at the garage, you will receive a parking ticket. You will need to bring your ticket to the CLS so that we can validate it. Keep it so that you can return it to the attendant at the end of the day. Please do not lose your ticket. If it is lost, you will not be able to leave the parking lot without paying again.
WALKING DIRECTIONS FROM GARAGE TO CENTER FOR LANGUAGE STUDY: Upon exiting the garage, turn right and proceed one block to Temple Street. Cross the street. Turn right at the corner and the Center for Language Study is the first building on the left.
SATURDAY PARKING: Please park at the Yale Parking Lot located on Temple Street which is a gated lot but is free and open to the public on weekends. The garage is past the Center for Language Study on the right side between Wall Street and Elm Street. Metered parking is available at the Center for Language Study but parking violations and 2 hour parking limitations are strictly adhered to.