OR2008 abstracts and biographies
Keynote speakers
- From broadcasting to participation media: minority language transmission and teaching
Assoc. Prof. Robert Debski (The University of Melbourne) - The Internet as a multilingual space:
linguistic diversity and the democratisation of communication
Prof. Tony Liddicoat (University of South Australia) - New Times, World Kids, Third Space: ICT, multiliteracies and multilingualism
Prof. Joseph Lo Bianco (The University of Melbourne) - Web internationalization
Richard Ishida (W3C)
Papers
- Case studies - Reaching CALD Communities: Showcasing ICT & Multimedia Projects
presented by Maria Dimopoulos - Communicating with Victoria's emerging African language
communities: issues and responses
Helen Borland and Charles Mphande (Victoria University) - A cross-cultural and bilingual experience in LIS
education - a case study
Dr. Robert Sandusky, Dr. Edwin Cortez and Simon Aristeguieta (University of Tennessee, USA) - Digital competence and the language issues in South African classrooms
Greta Gudmundsdottir (University of Oslo) - Digital stories: connecting to communities in L1
Terry Taylor (AMES) - eLearning resources to engage language learners
Jaclyn Curnow (Mill Park Secondary College) - Engaging the language learner in a multicultural world
Julie Duncan and Jacqueline Louise Baer (Open High School) - Language enablement
Andrew Cunningham (State Library of Victoria), Don Osborn (Bisharat Ltd.) and Wunna Ko Ko - Maintaining social networks: the use of ICTs by Chinese and Italian migrants in Melbourne
Tom Denison and Graeme Johanson - Mediated connectedness: practices and
strategies of Russian speaking migrants to Melbourne
Helen Borland (Victoria University) - Modern Ways for Ancient Words
Daryn McKenny - Multicultural information dynamics: the Internet and the end of lingua franca illiteracy
Paul L. Hover (Virginia Tech) and Jun Lu (American University) - MyLanguage and Community Languages Online
Brendan Fitzgerald (State Library of Victoria) - The use of Japanese in computer-mediated communication by Japanese-speaking Melbournians: implications for language maintenance
Hiroki Kurihara (Elwood College) - Vicnet - Monash University Translation and Technology Project
Rika Shimo-Malmberg (Monash University) and Andrew Cunningham (State Library of Victoria)