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Bios of Colloquium Participants:  Please write a short, 50-word bio underneath your name -- how you would like to be introduced at the Colloquium.  Thanks.

Vance Stevens has punctuated an otherwise lackluster career in ESL with a knack for having been in the right place at the right time at numerous junctures.  In 1979 he was spotted poking randomly at the keys of a mainframe computer newly installed at a language center in Saudi Arabia and was forthwith put in charge of CALL development there.  In 1983 he was present at a symposium in Toronto when numerous potential candidates turned down, one after another, a chance to be elected associate-chair of the CALL -IS in formation, and was somehow elected and therefore became chair of the IS when it was officially sanctioned the following year.  In 2002 he proposed an EVO session which jelled and developed into Webheads in Action, so again he was credited with founding what was in essence the spontaneous combustion of like minds who would have found a spark eventually. If you can't find Vance online, you might be able to catch him teaching courses in computing at Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Roger Kenner, during his career at Concordia University in Montreal, has worked in computer-assisted language learning since the early 1980sduring which time he has witnessed a succession of major changes in the field, from main-frame computers and terminals through to the Web.  His early interests were in authoring systems and other approaches to facilitating teacher involvment in the creation of computer-based materials. Over the past ten years he has worked extensively with learning management systems such at WebCT and Moodle.  He was a founding member of the CALL Interest section in 1983-1984 and served as associate chair and chair in 1985-1986.  He now offers consultation and training in computers for education through is private company.  For more information: RogerKenner.ca

Deborah Healey

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, professor emeritus at CSU, Sacramento, lead designer for the Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive and pedagogical consultant for Live Action English Interactive. She wrote Constructing the Paragraph, an online tutorial for composition classes. She consults for and teaches online courses for education professionals. Author of many articles on CALL pedagogy, her books include Learning Languages through Computers (co-editor Sarah Rilling) and CALL Environments: Research, Practice and Critical Issues, 2nd ed. (co-edited with Joy Egbert). She is former coordinator and member of the Electronic Village Online Team for TESOL's CALL IS.

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Claire Bradin Siskin  - Claire directs the Robert Henderson Language Media Center at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also teaches a graduate course about CALL.

Phil Hubbard

Karen Price