Teacher Professional Development

‘Teaching with New Media in the Classroom.’ Workshop at the K-12 teachers’ Summer Institute on
Africa, Center for African Studies and the Harn Museum, University of Florida. June, 2011.

'New Technologies in Education.' Presentation at the ‘Integrating Technology and Area Studies:
Discovering Caribbean Diversity Professional Development Workshop’ for Middle and High School
foreign language, social studies and language arts teachers. Orange Park High School, Florida. January
2010.

Workshops for teachers of German to integrate technology in the language classroom. Emphasized multi-faceted approaches to adoption of technology according to the teaching culture, instructional styles, and infrastructure. Selected workshops:

• “Internet in the German language classroom”, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.2003.
• “Web-based materials for teachers and translators”, Haus Sonnenberg, Oberharz, Germany. 2003.
• “Trinational Project: Internet for German language teachers”, Slovenia, Croatia,and Italy. 2002-2003.
• “Using the Internet for teaching German as a Foreign Language”, Verona, Vicenza, and Venice, Italy. 2002