The conference will begin on April 2, Tuesday, at 5:00 AM (HST), with a posting of welcome messages (Provost John Morton and Dr. Bert Kimura) and the keynote addresses to all participants via email. These will also be posted on the web page later in the day.
From April 2 to 4, please send email to the presenters whose sessions you attended, including greetings, questions, and comments. All presenters will be standing by over the three days to respond to your messages.
During the three days, TCCCON-L@hawaii.edu will serve as the general conference for all participants and presenters. Please send email re presentations that you especially enjoyed, the conference as a whole, etc.
On one of the three days (Apr 2, 3, or 4), each presenter will be featured in a live-chat MOO session for about an hour. A tentative schedule is included below. Please see the instructions for MOOing, which have been appended to this message.
Beginning on the 25th, you can view the presentations in two ways, WWW or Gopher:
URL: http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf/We'll be sending you, via email, an updated schedule of events for the April 2-4 conference by the 25th.
gopher leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu
(at the main menu, go to "Kapi'olani Info")At the "TCC-L Online Conference" main menu, you'll find an updated conference schedule, presentations, bios and photos of presenters, etc.
Sincerely,
Jim Shimabukuro
Conference Coordinator
jamess@hawaii.edu
Eric W. Crump, Coordinator of U of Missouri Learning Center Learning Technologies; Chair of the Conference on College Composition & Communication Committee on Computers in Composition & Communication.
Dr. Bob Holderer, Assistant Professor of Writing, Director of the Center for Writing, Dept. of English & Theatre Arts, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA.
(The keynote speakers are sponsored by Kapiolani Community College and Bismarck State College)
Sara Ackerman Aoyama, The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning, School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont.
Mar a del Carmen Avila-Suarez and Mar a del Carmen Sanchez-Flores, An Experience of Academic Updating for Nursery School Superintendents, Instituto Superior de Ciencias de la Educacion del Estado de Mexico (ISCEEM), Ex-Rancho de los Uribe, Santa Cruz Alzcapotzaltongo, Toluca, Mexico.
Patrick Ainley, The Experience of Independent Study at the U of East London: Good and Bad but Never Indifferent, U of Greenwich, School of Post-Compulsory Education and Training.
A. Nancy Avakian, Use of Adjunct Faculty Members (NY State), Onondaga CC, Syracuse, NY.
David Caldwell, PhD, The Changing Role of Literature in the Curriculum: Teaching and Learning in the '90s. U of No Colorado, Greeley, CO.
Dan Carroll, Multimedia Application Development: Lessons Learned from a First-Time Developer, Miami U-Hamilton Campus, Hamilton, OH.
Prof. Marsha Chan, ESL, No Talking, Please, Chatting, Mission College, Santa Clara, Calif.
George Cho, PhD, Self-Teaching Student's Manual for Geographic Information Systems, U of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
Prof. Stephen L. Coffman, Assoc. Prof. Daniel D. Gross, Asst. Prof. Barbara Walkosz, A Talk Show Format in a Content Course: Adapting Mass Media Techniques for the Classroom, Montana State U-Billings.
Dave Curtis, Introduction to Sociology: A COMPELing Experience, Maple Woods CC, Kansas City, MO.
Rhea Stagner Das & Thomas Gustafson, Shared Directories on the Network: A Multifaceted Classroom Management Tool, U of Wisconsin Superior.
Dr. Richard S. Ellis, Internet Applications in Marketing and Business Education, Auburn U.
John Farrand-Rogers, PhD, A Traditional Teaching Technique which Returns as an Innovation: Teaching Reading Comprehension via Translation, Centro de Estudios de la Universidad, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Toluca, Mexico.
Asst. Prof. Jean C. Fulton, Writing Assignments as Windows, Not Walls: Enlivening Unboundedness through Boundaries, Maharishi U of Management, Fairfield, IA.
Prof. Judith Hibberd, RN, PhD, Teaching Management to Nursing Students in an Era of "Permanent Whitewater" Change, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Dina Iordanova, PhD, On-line Features in Teaching International Communication, U of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
Jannett N. Jackson, Multimedia Training: It's Soup!, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA.
Jane Lasarenko, Collaborative Learning in a Computer Classroom, West Texas A&M U, Canyon, TX.
Ritchie R. Latimore, MBA, Replacing the Novice Computer User's Anxiety with Confidence, Kent State U, Geauga Campus, Burton, OH.
Prof. Steven McCarty, Revalorizing General Education and TEFL in Japan, Kagawa Junior College, Kagawa, Japan.
Asst. Prof. Karen McComas and Asst. Prof. Jay R. Lucker, EdD, Simulating Activities in a Virtual Environment; McComas: Marshall U, Huntington, WV; Lucker: St. John's U, Jamaica, NY.
Barbara McEwan, EdD, Using the Internet as a Tool for Enhancing Classroom Interactions, Oregon State U, Corvallis, OR.
Dr. Daniel D. McLean & Dr. Russ Brayley, Using Multimedia to Bring Learning to Life and Life to Learning, Indiana U, Bloomington, IN.
Patricia A. McTighe, Chromosomes, Scissors, Computers, and the WWW, Instructor, Bilogy, Hudson Valley CC, Troy, NY.
Dr. Jon'a Meyer & Dr. Tara Gray, Peer Coaching: An Innovation in Teaching, New Mexico State U, Las Cruces, NM.
Ellie Minich, Using Student Feedback to Improve Distance Education, Dean of Instruction, Open Campus, Florida CC at Jacksonville.
Prof. Fred Muskal, An Immodest Proposal: Student Strategies for Upward Mobility, U of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
Dr. Linda Olivet & Ted C. Jones, PhD, Collaborative Teaching: A Strategy for Interactive Telecourses, Jones: Austin Peay State U, Clarksville, TN.
Juan-Maria Parent-Jacquemin, PhD, "Gloss": A Way to Increase Comprehension, Director, Centro de Estudios de la Universidad, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Toluca, Mexico.
Prof. Armeda C. Reitzel, PhD, ESL and Information Literacy: Netscape and Home Pages, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
Dr. Julia Eka Rini, M.Pd, Teaching Translation, Petra Christian U, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Dr. David Ross, A Methodology for the Development and Application of Object-Oriented Software, U of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
Prof. Daniel Schultz & Asst. Prof. Maryanne Felter, The Computer as Tutor, Cayuga CC, Auburn, NY.
Steven A. Singer, EdD, Revising Strategies of ESL and Native English Speaking Students Writing in a Collaborative Computer Networked Environment: A Multiple Case Study, Kapiolani CC, Honolulu, HI.
Thomas J.C. Smyth, PhD, Using the World Wide Web for Student Assessment, Associate Professor of Education, U of South Carolina-Aiken.
John A. Sorrentino, The Transition from the LAN Computer Classroom to the Virtual Classroom: What Trials and Tradeoffs? Associate Professor, Temple U, School of Business and Management, Ambler, PA.
Erin Steuter, Who Cleans the Bathroom: Inventing Strategies for Equitable Division of Labour in the Household, Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B.
Rachel Wang, PhD, Learning Chemistry in Laboratory Settings: A Hands-On Introductory Chemistry Curriculum for Non-Science Majors, Spokane CC.
Dr. David Wray, Scaffolding Children's Writing in a Range of Genres, U of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.