Sustaining and Replicating Web-based Projects
 

October 18, 2003

1:45-5:15 pm

Bldg 4, Rm 249
MIT

We will deal with the successes as well as the challenges of sustaining web-based language projects and, in some cases, of adapting them to other university environments, including their use with other types of courses and with different languages. Julian Wheatley, Senior Lecturer in Chinese at MIT, will serve as moderator.

Schedule

• 1:45 Socializing and Announcements
  
• 2:15 Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer in French at MIT, Sabine Levet, Lecturer in French at Brandeis University, Beth Bauer, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Brown University, and Lynne deBenedette, Senior Lecturer in Russian, Brown University will take part in a panel discussion about the migration of the MIT-developed Cultura project to other institutions.
  
• 3:00 Margarita Ribas Groeger, Director of the Spanish Language program, MIT and Adriana Gutiérrez-González, Preceptor in Spanish, Harvard University, will talk about España de cerca. Douglas Morgenstern, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, will present parts of the MITUPV Exchange.
  
• 3:30 Break
  
• 3:45 Yoshimi Nagaya, Director of the Japanese Language program, MIT, will speak on JP Net, a web-based program used for many years at MIT and in numerous other institutions.
  
• 4:00 Ellen Crocker, Senior Lecturer in German, MIT, Kurt Fendt, Director of the HyperStudio and Co-director of the MetaMedia Project, MIT, and Sylvia Rieger, Preceptor and Language Coordinator for German at Harvard University, will talk about Berliner sehen. Kurt will describe the MetaMedia Project and Tong Chen, Lecturer in Chinese at MIT, will present aspects of one MetaMedia application as a work-in-progress with “A Glimpse of the Cultural Revolution.”
  

Directions

MIT students’ families will be visiting campus the weekend of Oct. 18, so parking on Memorial Drive may be difficult. The East Garage, which was open to all on weekends, has been torn down and the underground garage that replaced it uses an automated entry that scans MIT ID cards. It is preferable to take public transportation (the Kendall Square T-station on the Red Line, or buses that stop at Massachusetts Avenue, such as the #1 Dudley or CT1 Cross Town). Complete directions are available at http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions. Building 4 is centrally located in the main part of campus, where all buildings are connected to the “infinite corridor.” This map highlights Building 4: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=4&Buildings=go Room 249 is on the second floor.

If you have questions, please contact Douglas Morgenstern, dmorgen@mit.edu