The Tucker Multimedia Center is not only dedicated to aiding students in language acquisition, but also to promoting and organizing faculty discussion of language teaching techniques. The TMC provides an avenue for demonstrating new techniques in language acquisition with and without technology.  We, Dr. Paul Richard (Dick) Kuettner and the TMC assistants, provide these services to both faculty within the Washington and Lee University community and also to faculty at other institutions of higher learning in the Mid-Atlantic region in order to demonstrate the importance of language learning in our society.

The TMC also offers technology education training  for both students and faculty in the latest software programs in the following fields:

• Graphic design - Adobe Photoshop CS2

• Webpage development/design - Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Studio MX, Microsoft Frontpage

• Dynamic Presentations - Microsoft Powerpoint

• Web animation - Macromedia Flash MX
   

Workshops

Putting the Language Student to Task, a faculty workshop, which included panelists who shared their expertise on language instruction for the purpose of practical language use in real-life situations. The panelists in the photo from left to right are Daniel Kramer,Assistant Professor of German, Washington and Lee University (listen); Ivelise Faundez-Reitsma, Instructor of Romance Languages, Washington and Lee University (listen); and Dominica Radulescu, Professor of Romance Languages, Washington and Lee University (listen).   

 

A recent faculty workshop on Rethinking Language Instructional Programs.  Panelists in the photo from left to right are Marie-Thérèse Killiam (Professor of French, Sweet Briar College); Roger Crockett (Professor of German, Washington and Lee University); A. G. Fralin (Professor of French, Washington and Lee University); Lynn Talbot (Professor of Spanish, Roanoke College); and John Lambeth (listen) (Associate Professor of French, Washington and Lee University). All have served or are serving as foreign language department heads.  In the forefront, José Bañuelos (Roanoke College)Listen to a selection of Professors Killiam and Talbot speaking on literature in the undergraduate setting.

 

Video Production for Language Teaching and Learning, a faculty workshop, familiarized instructors with video-making programs to be used by students in hands-on language projects. The instructors learned how to have students develop their news broadcasts, television shows, or soap operas, and also discussed the pedagogical uses and misuses of such projects. With presentations by Dr. Iana Konstantinova, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southern Virginia University (Buena Vista, Virginia) and Professor Alison Kirsch, Instructor of Spanish at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) (listen).

 

Intermingling Film, Literature, Language and Translation, a faculty workshop, featured panelists sharing their successful techniques in using film and literature in translation in the teaching of language and literature. Led by Kristin Kopp, PhD (UC Berkeley), Department of German and Russian Studies, University of Missouri (Columbia) (listen); Daniel Kramer, PhD (Harvard) (listen), Department of German and Russian, Washington and Lee University (Lexington); and Anne McGovern, PhD (Vanderbilt), Mary Baldwin College (Staunton).

 

Over Parents’ Weekend, Professor Gregory Dresden of the Washington and Lee Mathematics Department demonstrated the TMC's newest addition to language learning: cross-cultural communication with native speakers abroad, using web-cams and microphones, right in the TMC . Freshman Dane Davis demonstrated as well.