Gaining Equal Access to Technology

St. Louis
TESOL 2001

Claire Bradin Siskin
University of Pittsburgh
cbsiskin@pitt.edu
http://edvista.com/claire/
Karima Benremouga
University of Houston
kbenremouga@uh.edu
http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/karima/
You are now at Claire's page for this session. Karima's page: http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/karima/TESOL2001/

I. Preliminary Comments

II. The problem

III. Basic requirements

A. room layout
B. user-friendly set-up
C. decent software
D. fast Internet connection
E. browser plug-ins
F. storage for large files
G. reasonable server/hard drive policies
H. projector or screen-sharing device
I. appropriate & adjustable lighting
J. sensible lab policies
K. adequate staff
L. desktop support for faculty
M. audio

N. tools for creating multimedia

III. Call to action

IV. Resources

International Association for Language Learning Technology: http://iall.net/
Arguments in favor of CALL: http://edvista.com/claire/what.html

Planning a Language Resource Center: http://edvista.com/claire/labplan.html

MSU NextDay Research Project: http://edtech.connect.msu.edu/nextday/FinalReport_TOC.htm

LLTI listserver: http://iall.net/LLTI.html

LLTI searchable archives: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/archives/llti.html

Digital Divide Network: http://www.DigitalDivideNetwork.org/

V. Discussion


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