The NJ Statewide
Higher Education
ESL Conference


Keynote Speaker:

Claire Bradin Siskin
"Integrating a Moving Target into the Curriculum"

Claire Bradin Siskin taught ESL for 17 years, and she has been an enthusiastic practitioner of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since 1983.  She is the past chair of the CALL interest section of TESOL and is the current chair of the Executive Board of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).  She co-chaired the program for the WorldCALL Conference in Japan in 2008.  She serves on the editorial boards of both Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal and CALICO Journal.  Last year she was named Educator of the Year (post-secondary) by the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association.  Her principal interests are faculty development and research in CALL.


Morning Concurrent Sessions: (10:45am-11:30am and 11:45am-12:30pm)

Claire Bradin Siskin
"Free Tech Tools for ESL Educators"

Beverly Bickel, PhD, Heather Linville, &
Polina Vinogradova
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
"Imagining Each Other's Worlds through Digital Storytelling"

Steven Humphries, PhD
Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA
"From Traditional to Online Teacher Training: Making the Transition"

Charles Lauth
Vestal Central Schools, Vestal, NY
"Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing with Audacity"

Susanne McLaughlin, Jane Curtis, & Betsy Kubota
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
"i-Caught, You Tube, We All Benefit"

Michael Feldman
Boston University, Boston, MA
"WIKIs, Social Networking, and Web 2.0 in the Classroom"

Thomas Leverett
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
"Integrating Written Chat into Writing Class" and "Technology as Aid, Crutch, and Impediment to Learning"

Philip Hubbard, PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"Online Listening"



Morning Concurrent Sessions [continued]: (10:45am-11:30am and 11:45am-12:30pm)

Laura Nicosia, PhD
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
"Second Life"-Explore this 3-dimensional virtual world and its use in the classroom.

Peter Campbell
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

"Elluminate" -Extend the traditional boundaries of the classroom with this software.

Afternoon Sessions:
(1:45pm-2:30pm)

Presentations by ELMS Grant Recipients

Donald Forcinito, Cumberland County College
ESL Student Support Center

Samuel Lumbsden, Essex County College
English as a Second Language for Essex County College

Patricia Ishill, Lynn Meng, & Kathy Svare, Union County College
ESL/BIO Allied Health Learning Community

Anne Mabry, PhD, & Steve Haber, PhD, New Jersey City University
T.E.A.C.H. BSN: Support Services for Language Minority Nursing Students

Gladys Scott, PhD, & Reena Tailor, William Paterson University
WPUNJ English Language Minority Student Project

Jacqueline McCafferty, Rowan University
Mobile Language Lab for Technology Enhanced ESL Instruction


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