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Conference; June 8
: 12:00-4:00 Check-in and registration; 5:30-7:00 Reception and dinner; June 9
(Chemistry Auditorium); 8:00-8:30 Breakfast
: 8:30-9:00 Opening remarks
Eugene Tobin, President of Hamilton College
: 9:00-10:30 Panel presentation and discussion; (1) "Designing and Developing Web-Based Chinese Language Course"
Tianwei Xie, California State University at Long Beach; (2) "Technology and Chinese Language Instruction: Something Old, Something; New and Something Borrowed"
Tao-chung Yao, University of Hawaii; (3) "How Beginning Chinese Learners Benefit from the Indication of Word Boundaries"
Ardrey Li, Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu and Yichia Hsu, University of Southern California
: 10:30-10:50 Break
: 10:50-11:50 Panel presentation and discussion; (1) "An Easy-use Template for Multimedia Chinese Language Teaching"
De Bao Xu and Hong Gang Jin, Hamilton College; (2) "Digitized Lesson Plans with Visual Aids in Chinese Individualized Instruction"
Li Yu, The Ohio State University
: 12:00-1:20 Lunch; 1:20-2:20 Panel presentation and discussion; (1) "Web-Based Technology in the Teaching of Chinese Language"
Wenze Hu, Harvard University; (2) "Web-Based Sharing of Quality Teaching and Learning Resources: The LangNet Project"
Scott McGinnis, National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages

: 2:20-3:20 Panel presentation and discussion; (1) "Why Good Web Pages Go Bad: The Pitfalls and Promise of Chinese on the Web"
Robert H. Smitheram, Middlebury College; (2) "Web-Supported Curriculum"; Yea-fen Chen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; 3:20-3:50 Break
: 3:50-4:50 Panel presentation and discussion; (1) "Using Xiaopin (Comic Skits) as an Inter-active Text to Teach Auxiliary Particles"
Wenwei Du, Vassar College; (2) "How to Teach Chinese Characters on Computer?"
Zhiqun Xing, Western Washington University
: 4:50-5:50 Panel presentation and discussion; "Using Technology to Make Teaching More Cost-effective: A Working Project"; Der-lin Chao, Hunter College; 6:00-7:30 Banquet
: Workshops
June 10
(Computer Center 005 and KJ PC Lab); 8:00-8:30 Breakfast
: 8:30-10:00 Workshops
Session I (Mac Lab 005) "Hamilton Multimedia Templates" by De Bao Xu; Session II (PC Lab) "Web Course Development" by Robert H. Smitheram

: 10:00-10:15 Break
: 10:15-11:30 Workshops; Session I (Mac Lab 005) "Hamilton Multimedia Templates" by De Bao Xu; Session II (PC Lab) "Web Course Development" by Robert H. Smitheram
: 11:30-12:00 Discussion: Future development and collaboration
: 12:00-1:30 Lunch
: 1:30-3:00 Workshops
Session I (Mac Lab 005) "Hamilton Multimedia Templates" by De Bao Xu; Session II (Mac Lab 001) "Web Course Development" by Robert H. Smitheram
: 3:00-3:15 Break
: 3:15-4:30 Workshops
Session I (Mac Lab 005) "Hamilton Multimedia Templates" by De Bao Xu; Session II (Mac Lab 001) "Web Course Development" by Robert H. Smitheram
: 4:30-5:00 Discussion; 5:30-7:00 Dinner; June 11
(KJ PC Lab); 8:00-8:30 Breakfast
: 8:30-10:00 Workshops; Session III (PC Lab) ) "Interaction between Instructor and Student in Web-based Courses" by Tianwei Xie
: 10:00-10:15 Break
: 10:15-11:15 Workshops; Session III (PC Lab) ) "Interaction between Instructor and Student in Web-based Courses" by Tianwei Xie
: 11:15-12:00 Discussion: What needs to be done for Chinese language teaching, future development and collaboration; 12:00-1:00 Lunch and departing Hamilton College

Key Speakers and Workshop Organizers

HONG GANG JIN Associate Professor of Chinese at Hamilton College, obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1989. In the same year she started teaching Chinese at Hamilton College and was honored as the Outstanding Baccalaureate Professor of USA in 1998. She is also the general director of ACC study abroad program in Beijing and the director of East Asian Languages and Literature at Hamilton College. Since 1993, she has been working with De Bao Xu to create and design mutlimedia Chinese teaching materials and has published textbook series and CD-ROMs.

ROBERT H. SMITHERAM obtained his Ph.D. in classical Chinese literature at Stanford University in 1987 and has taught Chinese language and literature at Williams College, Wellesley College, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the designer of the HyperChinese series of computer-assisted language materials for Chinese, and has published extensively in the integration of non-Western, non-Roman language material into web and other multi-media computing projects.

TIANWEI XIE Assistant Professor of Chinese at California State University at Long Beach, obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 and has been teaching Chinese since 1985. His major research interest is in exploring the new ways of using the Internet in teaching Chinese. He has published articles and books in Linguistics and has developed textbooks and online-textbooks for learning conversation, animated characters and interactive grammar exercises. His web site "Learning Chinese Online" is one of the most welcomed sites for Chinese learners.

DE BAO XU Associate Professor of Chinese at Hamilton College, obtained his MA in Classical Chinese at Beijing Normal University in1985 and Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1991. He is the editor-in-chief (with James Huang) of Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series (8 volumes, 1993-1997) and author and co-author of several other books in Linguistics. Supported by Andrew Mellon Foundation, he has been developing (with Hong Gang Jin) multimedia Chinese teaching materials since 1993 and has published textbook series and CD-ROMs.

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