The Faculty Notebook, September 1999

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost

Device and context influence on wireless infotainment access: A real world story

Copyright @ 2005 CEPISUser considerations are paramount when it comes to take up of technologies, and even more so in the case of mobile devices, in which the success of a particular device often depends on its novelty appeal. However, relatively little work has been undertaken exploring how day-to-day tasks are affected when mediated by such access devices. This paper reports the results of an empirical study placed in a 'real-world' setting, in which participants undertook typical infotainment - combined information and entertainment access tasks on three different wireless-enabled mobile devices. These were a laptop, a Personal Digital Assistant and a Head Mounted Display device. Our results show that, with the exception of participants' level of self-consciousness when using such devices in public environments, the user wireless infotainment access experience is generally unaffected by device type. Location was shown, though, to be a significant factor when users engage in tasks such as listening to online music or navigation

Boston University Percussion Ensemble, November 12, 2018

This is the concert program of the Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Monday, November 12, 2018 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Hoquetus Frank by Rodney Lister, "Xati" by Payton Macdonald, Snare Drum For Camus by Joseph Celli, 4x4 by Justin Casinghino, and retrace by Ketty Nez. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

DEUCE : a test-bed for evaluating ESL competence criteria

This paper describes work in progress to apply a Web-based facility for evaluating differing criteria for English language competence. The proposed system, Discriminated Evaluation of User's Competence with English (DEUCE), addresses the problem of determining the efficacy of individual criteria for competence in English as a Second Language (ESL). We describe the rationale, design and application of DEUCE and outline its potential as a discriminator for ESL competence criteria and as a basis for low cost mass ESL competence testing

An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Multimedia Annotation to the News Listening Comprehension

With the continuous progress of science and technology, computers are more widely used in English teaching. In most English classes, computer aided learning and teaching has become an indispensable part of classroom activities. On the other hand, enhancing language skills through multimedia technologies become one of the scholars’ concerns. English tests like College English Test (CET) is very popular among the Chinese mainland English learners, to whom the listening part is always the hardest section. Accordingly, how to improve their listening comprehension in the news section leaves us a hot debate in nowadays. For this purpose, through the investigation of how the news listening comprehension is subject to different modes of multimedia annotations, the paper tries to find out the correlation between the effectiveness of multimedia glossaries and listening comprehension of the Chinese mainland EFL learners and hopefully the study could inspire the language educators and other related professions

Teacher and Student Perceptions of DynEd Multimedia Courseware: An Evaluation of CALL in an American Technical College

This study examines the perceptions of teachers and students using the DynEd Multimedia Courseware in adult ESL workshops in an American technical college setting. The goals of the study were to determine (a) the teachers’ perceptions of their training to facilitate DynEd, (b) the teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the facilitators’ role in supporting students, and (c) the teachers’ and students’ perceptions of DynEd’s appropriateness for adult learners at our institution. Data from questionnaires and focus group interviews were analyzed using Chapelle’s (2001) Criteria for CALL Task Appropriateness as the conceptual framework. Findings suggest that both teachers and students need training and support to use DynEd effectively. Findings also indicate that the students’ perceptions of DynEd are more positive than the teachers’ perceptions

Current College Public English Study in China

Recently, English education in college has become the keynote of cultivation of overall quality and the improvement of university education level. English education is one category of linguistics, which has the same characteristic as other language. At the same time, it has its own specialty that differs from mother language education. In this article, research on how to improve the English level in university has been done with integration of the reality and the law of development of the English education.in domestic university