Vol 7, No. 3
Software
Reviews
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Columns:
Collaborative Software and Services for the Writing Class by
Paul Daniels
'POST-DARWINIAN DYNAMICS' by
Steve Shucart
Quick Reviews
by Kevin Ryan
Soft Cover Reviews
Hot Links!
Info and Events
CALL Human Connections '98
Questionnaire: Feedback
29 people answered (there were 81 paying attendees, 28 presenters)
1. Most helpful presentations/workshops (title, comments)
| Setting Up a CALL Lab | directly addresses work concerns, | interesting | interesting, funny and entertaining |
| Making an interesting and useful teacher's home page | I came away with a homepage! | Didn't know anything about it | Creating a website was made very simple |
| Practical foundations: Using style sheets in computer-assisted writing classes | easy to implement, | practical - stylesheets | interesting approach to writing |
| Free resources on the net | immediately useful downloadable resources | It'll be helpful for future lessons | |
| Soft/Web Fair | things in action | ||
| Organizing E-mail penpal exchanges | practical, straightforward with pros and cons explained | very close to what I'm doing | |
| Using PowerPoint in Speech and Presentation Class | I would like to use PowerPoint | Showed practical applications | |
| Computers and speech: What's happening and what isn't. | personal interest | good summary | |
| In an Internet-in | new ideas | ||
| Cross cultural internet projects for children in Taiwan | good ideas | ||
| Web Bulletin Board -- writing in LAN connected computer labs | interesting points about how students need practice before participating in the internet and describing a useful way to give that practice | I was interested in what they were doing with webpage in their class | |
| Connected Learning: Teacher Training in CALL | Frank Berberich was great. | ||
| Eudora & Netscape for beginners | kind instruction | ||
| ALL SESSIONS | |||
| Best of the web: a component in an experimental undergraduate English curriculum | new information | ||
| Developing learner autonomy through the International E-Mail Tandem Network | A very good explanation of a kind of email exchange that I didn't know much about | ||
| A business writing course in a networked environment | I was interested in what they were doing with webpage in their class | ||
| Using multimedia and the internet to teach debate | See what is possible using up-to-date technology | ||
| Eudora & Netscape for beginners | |||
| CALL and our goals: Exploring the link | |||
| CALL strands examined | a great exchange of ideas - this may have been better at the beginning of the weekend | ||
2. What organizational aspects of the conference did you appreciate?
a. Sessions - 27
b. Networking buffet - 11
c. Forums - 3
d. Featured Speakers - 2
e. Others (webpages, information at entrance, lab workshops, transportation info., break times, parties)
3. What organizational aspects of the conference did you fell could have been better?
2 people - access to handouts; name tags for everyone
1 person - more sessions, fewer parallel sessions, copier, phone, fewer panels, publicity
4. Were the conference fees appropriate?
a. appropriate - 24
b. too expensive - 1 (should be free for JALT members)
c. can pay more - 3
5. What did you think of the conference overall?
a. Excellent - 13
b. Good - 18
c. Fair/Poor - 0
Why - dealt well with novices (2); hands on; flexible; friendly(3); small (3)
6. How did you hear about the conference?
JALT CALL N-SIG - 15
an e-mail list - 6
JALT chapter flyer - 5
the WWW - 5
a friend - 5
email from the organizer - 3
a journal/magazine - 1
your school - 1
7. Did you receive enough information about the conference before coming? If not, what type of information would have been helpful.
Program - 4
Transportation - 4
Hotel - 4
Others - map on website; Japanese name of university, that the featured speaker wasn't coming
8. What services would you like to see the CALL N-SIG provide?
one day workshops - 10
a software review archive - 10
local chapter presentations - 9
a CALL resource handbook - 7
workshops in schools - 4
more newsletters - 4
conference proceedings - 4
list of troubleshooters to help with problems - 1
9. What can we do to improve our future CALL N-SIG conferences:
Time of year - 18-Good; 3-Okay - one vote for during the spring vacation
Location - 13-Good; 8-Okay; 1-Not Good; one vote for Kyoto
Variety of speakers - 11-Good; 10-0kay; 1-not good
Suggestions -
(3 people) - higher level sessions
(1 person) - demonstrations for intermediate level users; too much internet; information about resources outside of the conference; more women presenters; more information sooner; more lab workshops; more primary and secondary education stuff; more people; fewer sessions - but more intense