CURRICULUM VITAE
| PERSONAL: |
Edwina
Spodark Address:
P.O. Box 9507
Telephone: (540) 362-6310 E-mail:
espodark@hollins.edu
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| EDUCATION: |
Ph.D.
Northwestern University M.A.
Marquette University B.A.
Northern Illinois University
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AREAS
OF |
Medieval/Renaissance
French Literature, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology,
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| EXPERIENCE: |
Professor of French
Associate
Professor of French Faculty
Instructor for the Hollins Certificate in Classroom Technology
Integration Courses
taught in Certificate Program: Faculty
Pedagogical Technology Facilitator Acting
Dean of Graduate Studies and International Chair
of French and Spanish Department Chair
of French Department Assistant
Professor of French Acting
Chair of French Department Courses
Offered at Hollins: -
Beginning
French Lecturer
in French Courses
Offered:
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
"Technoconstructivism for the Undergraduate Foreign Language Classroom," Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 2005 "Le Congrès mondial des professeurs de français," with Annette Sampon-Nicolas, Les Nouvelles, Vol. 25, No. 1, Fall 2004 “French in Cyberspace: An online French course for undergraduates,” CALICO Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2004 "Weaving the World Wide Web into Teaching
the Culture of Québec," “Five
Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts
University,” “Fostering
Technology Use Among Second-Wave Foreign Language Faculty,” “The
Tek.Xam as a Framework for Pre-service Foreign Language Teacher Invited
software review "Ca Sonne Français," CALICO Journal, "Integrating
Online Techniques into Undergraduate French Language Instruction," "The Changing Role of the Teacher: A Technology-Enhanced, Student-Centered Lesson on French Fashion," Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 34, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2001 "A
French Lesson for the Multi-media Classroom," "Implications
of E-mail Culture for Distance Education," "Pedagogical
Applications for the Single Computer "Demystifying
Distance Learning: A Primer for Teachers," "The
Role of the Multimedia Classroom in French "CALL
and Student Motivation: The Tom Selleck Software
Review, "VideoLinguist French," "Professors Perfect
Portable Pages," Stop Surfing And
Start Teaching: Teaching and Learning Through “Incorporating French for
Business at the Intermediate Language Level,” French For
Business
And International Trade, Vol. XII, "Introducing the
Internet," Foreign Language
Association
of Virginia Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 2, "Clarifying
the Text," Foreign Language Video
Review, "France: Canvas of Dreams," "MACLANG
at Hollins: A Computer Project for "Philippe
Comes To Hollins," Foreign Language Software
Review, "ELFE: Elementary French Exercises," Software
Review, "HyperFrance," "Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment: Software
Review, "Le Coq Branché," "CALL
for Accuracy: The Computer and the Oral Software
Review, "En Route," Video
Review, "Châteaux of the Loire," Software
Review, "Competer Rabbit," Software Review, "French Verb Tutor," Northeast
Conference on the Teaching of "Composition
Through Comic Personalization," "CALL
for Business French," French
For "Audience
Appeal," Les Nouvelles, Vol. X, "The
Epître à Clémence de Bourges: Louise "DASHER
at Hollins," Virginia
Educational "DASHER:
A Student/Teacher Project,"
Foreign
Language Association of Virginia Video
Review, "In Love With Paris," "Integrating
Writing into the Renaissance "The
Women of Louise Labé's Elégies," Reprint,
"Parlez-vous Computer?" "Parlez-vous
Computer?" Hollins
Alumnae "Modern
Slang-French Vocab: CAI at
Hollins With
William D. Paden, "The Poems of the Trobaïritz Na Castelloza,"
Romance Philology,
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| PRESENTATIONS: |
"Technoconstructivist Methodology and the Millennial Generation Foreign
Language Student'
"Technoconstructivist Methodology for our Millennial Generation
Students"
"Technoconstructivist Lessons for Developing Cross-cultural
Understanding"
"Implementing
Technoconstructivism" “Technoconstructivism in the Foreign Language Classroom" “Memorable
French Lessons: Putting Technology to Work in the Classroom” “Training
Future Foreign Language Teachers with the Tek.xam” "Distance
Learning Techniques for Advanced French "Lessons
in Distance Learning from a Faculty Pedagogical Technology "Contemporary
France: Lessons in Distance Learning" "Demystifying
Distance Learning: A Primer for Teachers" "In-House
Development: Teachers Training Teachers" "A
Fashionable French Lesson for the Multimedia "Technology
in the Humanities: A Case Study in French" "Case
Studies in the Humanities" "Secrets
of Teaching in the Multi-media Classroom "Portable
Pages as Pedagogical Pathways" "Secrets
of Teaching in the Multi-media Classroom Revealed" (Culpeper Grant
Workshop)
"Teaching
Foreign Languages in the Multi-media Classroom" "Professors
Perfect Portable Pages" Sowell
Grant Workshop on the Internet, the World "Au
Travail: A Module for Intermediate French" Sowell
Grant Workshop on the Internet, the World "Teaching
the Teachers with Portable Pages" "Getting
to Know You" "Clarifying
the Text" "Computer
Open House: Innovations in
French "Of
Flying Fruit and Eggs" "Video
Composition: Motivating
Students in "Using
Computers to Teach French at Hollins" "Taking
the Pain out of Death in Montaigne" "Les
Discours: A Video Project for Elementary French" "Modernizing
Montaigne" "French
Video 101" "CALT
(Computerized Adaptive Language Testing): "Attending
to the Women of Flamenca" "Teaching,
Learning and Assessment: A "CALL
for Accuracy: The Computer
and the Oral Proficiency Movement" "Hollins
à Paris: L'Université,
les étudiants "Video:
Expanding the Parameters of Teaching "Foreign
Language CAI: The
'Accuracy' of "DASHER
and CALIS: Two Authoring
Systems "CAI
for the High School Foreign Language "Integrating
Writing into the Renaissance "Flamenca's
Voice" "CAI
in Foreign Language Teaching" "Woman
as Catalyst: Pauline's
Dream as Motive "Micro-computer
CAI: Uses and
Possibilities" "CAI
for the High School Foreign "The
Epître à Clémence de Bourges: Louise Labé - "Student
Reaction to the Incorporation of CAI "Foreign
Language CAI Using MENTOR: Program "The
Foreign Language Teacher and Computer "The
Women of Louise Labé's Elégies" Seminar
on VISICALC "Microcomputers
in French Language Instruction" "The
Writing and Use of MENTOR Computer "The
Hollins College French Film Festival"
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RECOGNITION,
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Awarded the Frances
Shorter Scholarship by Alpha Delta Kappa - Virginia Nominated for the
Alpha Delta Kappa Excellence in Education Award Taught Web Page Design
at the first annual TEK CAMP at Hollins University Appointed an Officer
of Election in Botetourt County, Virginia Awarded the Edouard
Morot-Sir Pedagogical Prize for the French Review article
"Weaving the World Wide Web into Teaching the culture of Québec"
by the Institut Français de Washington Awarded an Alpha Delta Kappa
Regional Mini-Scholarship Appointed Manuscript
Reviewer for the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
Journal Hobbie Trust
Grant Initiated into Alpha
Delta Kappa, International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators Verizon
Technology Integration Grant Tek.Xam
Course Development Grant Hobbie Trust Grant Organized
the Second Annual "Sister
to Sister Summit," Participant in Roundtable Discussion on teacher Foreign Language Association of Virginia Bell Atlantic Faculty Technology Development Award Faculty
Development Grant Internet/Web Page Workshop for the Organized
the "Sister to Sister Summit," A development Workshop
on Navigating Paris and its Museums for Co-wrote
a successful Culpeper Grant to sponsor a Hollins
University Representative to the Roanoke Faculty
Development Grant Faculty Development Grant Member,
Advisory Board for the Women's Center at Co-wrote a successful Sowell Grant to sponsor two Foreign Language Contest Judge at the Foreign Language Association of Virginia Co-wrote a successful Sowell Grant to sponsor a Faculty Development Grant Contributor, American Association of Teachers of Luce Leadership Grant Foreign Language Association of Virginia French
Language Contest Judge Biography included in the 4th Edition of Foreign Language Association of Virginia Biography included in the 23rd Edition of My work in Computer Aided Instruction was My work in Computer Aided Instruction
was highlighted in We Teach With Technology: Presider for "French Immersion in Canada" at the
Jessie Ball duPont Foundation Grant Biography included in the 22nd Edition of American Association of the Teachers of
French (Virginia Chapter) Grant Foreign Language Association of Virginia Special Selected as a Reader for the Advanced Awarded the 1989 Foreign Language Selected as the Hollins faculty representative Selected as a Reader for the Advanced Foreign Language Association of Virginia Wye Faculty Seminar Seminar Grant for the Six College Consortium Digital
Equipment Corporation Microvax Grant Research
Grant Seminar Grant for the Six College Consortium Faculty
Development Grant Microcomputer Grant Faculty Development Grant Faculty Development Grant NEH Travel Grant Research Grant Faculty Development Grant Seminar Grant for the Six College Consortium Research
Grant
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PROFESSIONAL |
American
Association of the Teachers of French American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Computer
Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Foreign Language Association of Virginia
-FLAVA
Special Section Chair: "Teaching
with Technology: Practical Applications for the Foreign Language
Classroom"
-FLAVA Special
Section Chair: "First
Lessons: Getting
-FLAVA Special
Section Chair: "From
the Bizarre to the
-FLAVA Special
Section Chair: "From
the Bizarre
-FLAVA Special
Section Chair: "Oral
Proficiency
-Received the FLAVA
Distinguished Service
-FLAVA Special
Section Chair: "Computer
Aided Foreign Language Committee of the Roanoke
-Chair of the Annual
Dionysia Program: 1986 International Association of Language Learning Technology Modern
Language Association Société Guillaume IX Southern
Council on Language Teaching Virginia Society for Technology in Education
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COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
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Committees
&
Councils:
Other:
Chair
of Division I (1998-2000) Chair
of the Interdisciplinary Studies Division (1992-1998, 2006 to present) Coordinator of the Hollins
French Film Festival (1982-2005) Coordinator of the Hollins Spanish Film Festival (1996-2000) Creator and Editor of the French Department Creator and Editor of the French Department Hollins
Campus Sponsor of the American Association of Teachers of French (Virginia Chapter) "Concours
d'Expression Ecrite" (1994, 1995) Orientation Presentation: "The
French Connection" (1987) Reader for the Mary Williamson Award (1984) Sponsor of the Hollins French National Honor Sponsor of the Hollins French Club (1982-1985) Sponsor of the French Teaching Assistantships for Hollins Teacher Certification Advisor for the Hollins University |