Keeping up with Dan
My name is Dan Craig and I am STILL a PhD student in Language Education and Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, Bloomington I say "STILL" because I've been a student for a very long time. I hope that the end is near :)
I just finished working at Seoul National University at the Yongon Campus (medical campus) in Seoul, South Korea. In August (2009), I will begin working with Sangmyung University (Korean site - much better if you know Korean) as a lecturer in the College of Education, Department of English Language Education. I will be teaching TESL courses as well as some writing courses for TESOL majors. I have also been brought in to teach computer assisted language learning (CALL) courses, which will be a new focus for the program. Check out the Sangmyung, Seoul campus:
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I am a language and technology enthusiast. These go together wonderfully as technology is mediating much of how we communicate these days (whether of not you think that is a good thing). I have been working on both of these interests for the last 12 years as an English teacher, teacher training, and technology & business process analyst.
I worked with students, researchers, faculty, and staff working in the bio-medical sciences at Seoul National University. I was an English instructor with the Language Education Institute (LEI) where I taught a variety of courses including: general conversation, pronunciation, writing, presentation skills, and other topical courses, workshops, and private courses for a variety of academic skill areas.
I worked with Indiana University Language Education courses and grants for over 4 years. In addition to working with and researching various teacher education grant programs, I also taught ESL/EFL Instructional & Assessment Approaches (L540) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (L530). I really loved teaching CALL, given that the area is both my professional interest as well as a personal hobby. Unfortunately, the classes were too much work for me to continue teaching in addition to my full time job, so I had to quit in after the 2007 summer session.
In the past I have worked on research involving interdisciplinary professional development for ESL teachers and the influence of professional communities on the adoption of innovation. Currently, I am working more practice-oriented topics. I am looking at ways to utilize existing technologies to provide individualized content to learners, and I am looking at ways in which individual learners and organizations are utilizing VoIP & video technologies to access and assess authentic language exchanges.
