Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of French
Thursday, July 12, 2007
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Holiday Inn Select, Riverboat Room
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Presentation: “Virtual Museum: A Technology-Enhanced Professional Development Program for Teachers of French”
Presenters: Denise Égéa-Kuehne, Sophie Warny, Arnaud Sgambato, Adrienne Lopez, and Rebecca Tedford

Presenters will discuss a professional development program which will offer a series of compressed-video workshops aimed at increasing the amount of science content in immersion and elementary classrooms and improving classroom practice in content-based teaching through hands-on activities.

Welcoming Orientation Meeting and Workshops for new “CODOFIL Teachers”
Monday, July 30, 2007 – Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Holiday Inn Select
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The new contingent of French Foreign Adjunct Teachers sponsored by CODOFIL, the Louisiana Department of Education and the French Government, and recruited by Arnaud Sgambato, Attaché Pédagogique in the French Education Project, is arriving in Louisiana on July 29. On July 30 they will join the FATs coming from Belgium and Québec to begin a 3-day series of orientation meetings and workshops before deploying all over Louisiana to begin working in the public schools on Monday, August 6.

International Conference MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Sheraton Hotel, Bayside Room B
New Orleans, Louisiana
Presentation: “Technology Enhanced Professional Development for Louisiana Science Teachers (K-8 and French Immersion)”
Presenters: Egéa-Kuehne, Sophie Warny, Adrienne Lopez, and Rebecca Tedford

The presentation will discuss how the innovative partnership of the Virtual Museum, bringing together science and French is grounded in teacher, science, and foreign language education research.