Introduction

Welcome to "Developing Your Course For The WWW," a workshop presented at the 1998 Northeast Conference on Teaching of Foreign Languages on April 16, 1998, and hosted by the International Multimedia Center at Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York.

This is a hands-on workshop for language instructors to help them develop a Web page for their courses. This workshop presents the basics of HTML so that the participants can have a springboard for future interest in HTML and its instructional possibilities. The goal of this session is to show how to create a simple yet informative and attractive web page where instructors can incorporate their course information and activities.

The workshop provides some HTML templates that instructors can easily adapt to their particular needs.
This workshop does not cover advanced HTML like tables and frames. Those interested in going beyond the basics of HTML will find useful links in the Advanced Resources section of this site.

 

The Presenters

Here is some biographical information about the presenters of this workshop.

Juan Ramón de Arana is an Assistant Professor of Spanish (Visiting) at Ursinus College. Juan Ramón has been using the Web as an instructional tool for some years, incorporating this technology in all his courses. You can check his current classes by selecting this link: Juan Ramón's Home Page.

He also designs language exercises for the Web using web forms and JavaScript. His Spanish Language Exercises web page is a public site that features many grammatical aspects of the Spanish language for beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. If you like the exercises and are interested in creating your own, consult this other workshop by Juan Ramón: Creating Language Interactivity on the Web.

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Contact Juan Ramón de Arana: jarana@ursinus.edu

   Robin Clouser is a Professor of German and Chair of the Modern Language Department of Ursinus College. As the co-project director of the Lafayette-Ursinus Mellon Consortium, he has a deep interest in technology and its applications. You can check his course syllabi by selecting this link: Robin's Home Page.

He has alsodeveloped a web site on Grimms' Fairy Tales: The Fairy Tale Project: a Multimedia Bridge from Language to Literature. There you will find a demonstration project for Little Red Riding Hood. Additional fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, which are ready for classroom use, may be downloaded by selecting this link: Fairy Tales.

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Contact Robin Clouser: rclouser@ursinus.edu

We hope that you find this session useful and enjoyable.
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