Summer Institute 2000 Participants
Julia Titus
PhD candidate, Slavic Languages, Yale University
I found my experience at the Summer institute this year very valuable and enjoyable. I had a chance to meet many colleagues from other universities and to exchange and share ideas about teaching methodology and new trends in the field of teaching Slavic languages. One of the highlights of the institute was a two-day workshop by George Mitrevsky on designing your own web-based exercises. As we all know, language teachers often create their own supplementary materials and then distribute them in class as Xeroxed copies. Now, as George Mitrevsky has shown us, we can do it much more effectively by posting our materials directly onto the website. I feel that the html skills which I gained at this workshop will be extremely useful for my teaching since it gives me so much more flexibility in designing exercises and other supplementary materials, and enhancing them with sound and graphics. My very first web page was a poem by Pushkin recorded in Russian.In the near future I envision the whole bank of Russian poems accessible to students on our classes server and I am looking forward to doing more of those. I want to thank everybody at the summer institute for giving us such a wonderful opportunity to learn new things and techniques.