Columbia University

Video Production Workshop

This will be a 5-6 hour workshop in which a maximum of 15 foreign language instructors/TAs (max. 5 participants per camera) go through hands-on steps necessary for teaching students to produce their own videos using the foreign language.

Computer-Assisted Audio Drills for Japanese

Development of computer-assisted drills for elementary Japanese.

Vienna: A Third-Year German Reader

Development of a content-based and Web-based literary and cultural multimedia reader on Vienna for third-year German.

The Holocaust: An Italian Perspective

Development of a Web site devoted to texts and films on the Holocaust in Italy and intended for students of intermediate and advanced Italian.

Learning Scenarios for Intermediate German

Development of content-based teaching units for intermediate German courses. Units include the culture of travel, homeland and identity, the Greens and their history, emigration (Little German in New York), major events in German and Austrian history, the valuation of the past, modern German art, etc. Irene Motyl is co-director.

Advanced Beginners Chinese Textbook

Development of a reading text for advanced beginners in the Columbia Chinese language program.

Revision of German Web Pages

Updating of German Web sites and completion of site for German for Reading Knowledge.

Travel Grant for the 1995 AAUSC Meeting

Intermediate Chinese Text, Part II

Development of the second-year textbook David and Helen in China with audiotapes.

Integrated Videotapes for the Textbook Intermediate Japanese II

Production of videotapes to accompany the textbook written by the staff of the Columbia Japanese language program.