Emerging Global Literacies in Language and Technology

Emerging Global Literacies in Language and Technology Pre-Registration Materials November 13-14, 2015 Crowne Plaza White Plains-Downtown 60 Hale Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 NYS TESOL President Robin Finnan-Jones Conference Chair Valentina Portnov (ConfChair@ac15.nystesol.org) Conference Registration Chair Fran Olmos (RegChair@ac15.nystesoll.org) Pre-registration deadline: Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 Online registration and additional conference information please visit http://www.nystesol.org

Preliminary Conference Overview (Subject to schedule adjustments) Friday, November 13, 2015 Conference Registration Continental Breakfast Exhibitors & Publishers Friday Opening & Plenary Session Dr. James Paul Gee Language, Literacy, Technology, Teaching, and Learning in a (Crisis- Ridden) Digital World Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Dr. Marilyn J. Rymniak, Managing Executive Director, BDx InterFace, Inc. Award Presentations - Student Essay Contest Exhibitor Coffee Hour & Poster Sessions NYS TESOL SIG & Region Social Hour President s Dinner and Entertainment Annual Outstanding Educators Awards Presentation J-Unit Karaoke/Dancing 7:30 am 4:00 pm 7:30 am 9:30 am 8:30 am 5:00 pm 8:30 am 11:50 am 9:00 am 10:25 am 11:55 am 1:25 pm 1:35 pm 3:35 pm 3:35 pm 4:10 pm 4:10 pm 5:20 pm 5:30 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 11:00 pm Saturday, November 14, 2015 Conference Registration Continental Breakfast Exhibitors/Publishers Saturday Plenary Session Andy Curtis - If technology is the answer, then what s the problem? Luncheon with Plenary Speaker Christine Rosalia, Assistant Professor of TESOL, Hunter College Exhibitor Coffee Hour & Poster Sessions NYS TESOL Annual Membership Meeting & Closing Remarks 7:30 am 1:00 pm 7:30 am 9:30 am 8:30 am 5:00 pm 8:30 am 11:50 am 9:00 am 10:25 am 11:55 pm 1:25 pm 1:35 pm 3:35 pm 3:35 pm 4:10 pm 4:10 pm 5:20 pm 5:30 pm 6:45 pm Featured Speakers It's Your Classroom. What Do You Want To Do? A Supportive Forum for New Professionals Presenters: Tamara Kirson and Elaine Roberts, Region Co-Chairs, NYS TESOL Integrated English as a New Language: Challenges and Solutions Presenters: Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld, Molloy College

AC2015 Invited Speakers James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents Professor at Arizona State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. His book Sociolinguistics and Literacies (Fourth Edition 2011) was one of the founding documents in the formation of the New Literacy Studies. His book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Third Edition 2011) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings, an approach that has been widely influential over the last two decades. His most recent books have dealt with video games, language, and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Second Edition 2007) argues that good video games are designed to enhance learning through effective learning principles supported by research in the Learning Sciences. Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help us in thinking about the reform of schools. The Anti- Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Media appeared in 2013. Prof. Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education. Marilyn J. Rymniak is Dean Emeritus of the LAC Academy and former Academic Director of Curriculum Development for the Literacy Assistance Center of New York City. She is currently Managing Executive Director of BDx InterFace, Inc., a contextualized curriculum development, TESOL and intercultural communication consultancy. Rymniak has taught in, directed, and developed materials for adult education, corporate and university- based English Second Language training programs in CA, NY and NJ, and was Executive Director of the TOEFL Language Exams at Educational Testing Service She has held teaching, training, and curriculum development positions in Spain, France, England, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and has done extensive EFL teacher training in Poland. She is the author of four English Second Language training textbooks. Rymniak was previously the Executive Director of International Products and Programs at Kaplan Inc. and architect of Kaplan s worldwide Access America program, the Dean of the International Office at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, a Culpepper Fellow for Cross- Cultural Studies at Millbrook School, a Fulbright scholar to the Federal Republic of Germany, and a Harvard Teaching Fellow. She holds a dual Masters in Theoretical Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language and a PhD in International and Comparative Education from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Andy Curtis, President of TESOL International, received his M.A. in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching, and his Ph.D. in International Education, both from the University of York in England. From 2007 to 2011, he was the Director of the English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a professor in the Faculty of Education there. Prior to 2007, he was the Executive Director of the School of English at Queen s University in Ontario, Canada, and a professor at the School for International Training in Vermont, USA. Andy is currently working with the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University, based in California, USA, and he was recently elected as the President of the TESOL International Association, the world s largest international language teachers association, with 60,000 core and affiliate members in 160 countries. Over the last 25 years, Andy has published more than 100 articles, book chapters and books, and been invited to present to around 25,000 teachers in 50 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as North, South and Central America. He is based in Ontario, Canada, from where he works as an independent consultant for language teaching organizations worldwide. Christine Rosalia is Assistant Professor of TESOL at Hunter College, City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. from New York University in Educational Communication and Technology. Her research interests have focused on computer- assisted language learning, mobile learning, written feedback, and online peer assessment. She enjoys preparing New York City public school teachers and teachers of adults to incorporate technology into their everyday teaching, especially writing pedagogy and peer learning. Favorite projects include digital storytelling across grades and language proficiencies, and teacher solutions to technologically under- prepared schools.

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