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Monday—June 21
Time	Session	Presenter	Title	Audience	Room
8:30 AM	M830A	E.W. Clymer	Welcoming Remarks	All	LBJ-Panara Theatre
9:00 AM	M9A	Yohei Sasakawa	Plenary	All	LBJ-Panara Theatre
9:30 AM	M930A	Mark Leddy	Plenary - Advancing the Careers of Students in Science and Engineering	All	LBJ-Panara Theatre
10:00 AM	M10A	Helena Mitchell	Mobile Alerting for Persons Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing	All	SDC-1310
	M10B	Jeffrey Bigham	AudioWiz - Mobile Retroactive Audio Transcription and Description for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals	All	LBJ-3237
	M10C	Derrick Cogburn	Going Global, Locally with Cyberlearning: Lessons Learned for Accessible Cyberinfrastructure©:Enabled Knowledge Communities from a Decade of Cross-National Global Virtual Learning Teams	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	M10D	Tracy Magin	Open Source, Open Minds	All	LBJ-2590
11:00 AM	M11A	Peter Lalley	Enhancement of Educational Access Through Emerging Technologies: Real Time Text Generation and Unified Information Display Methods	All	LBJ-2590
	M11B	David Fourney	Music Visualization	All	LBJ-3237
	M11C	Mari Liles	Creating 21st Century Classrooms, Students, and Teachers	PreK-12	SDC-1300
	M11D	Joong-o (Kevin) Yoon	The Effects of Closed Captions on an Online Content on Deaf Students: Content Comprehension, Cognitive Load, and Motivation	All	SDC-1310
Noon		Lunch
1:00 PM	M1A	Cindy King	Bilingual Web Conferencing with Multi-Party Videos	All	SDC-1310
	M1B	Patrick Smith	Social Networks: An Introduction to Social Networking and Your Accessible Web Presence	All	LBJ-3237
	M1C	Michael Stinson	Supporting Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Mobile Learning Situations with Captioning	All	LBJ-2590
	M1D	Richard Ladner	ASL-STEM Forum: An Online Video Forum for Discussing ASL for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
2:00 PM	M2A	Chas Johnstone	Demonstration of the Presentation and Access Technologies in Classrooms, Conference Rooms and Labs at NTID	All	SDC-1310
	M2B	Miriam Santana-Valadez	Checking for Students' Understanding in the Math Classroom: From Clickers to TI-Navigator	All	SDC-1300
	M2C	Anna Cavender	ClassInFocus: An Online Multimedia Conferencing Platform for Improved Access to Mainstream Classrooms for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students	Postsecondary	LBJ-2590
	M2D	Tony Naturale	Remote Captioning/Notetaking in NYC: Synergetic Use of Current Technologies	All	LBJ-3237
3:00 PM	M3A	Emily Whiteside	Signed Multimedia Storybooks: Interactive Vocabulary Instruction	PreK-12	SDC-1310
	M3B	Nicoletta Adamo-Villani	Accessible Mathematics for Young Deaf Children	All	LBJ-2590
	M3C	Eric Pylko	Connect, Communicate, Collaborate (CISCO TelePresence)	All	SDC-1300
	M3D	Marie Dolezalova	Leonardo Project Transfer of Innovation, DSigns - Online Training System for British, Czech, Cypriot, Greek, Irish Sign Languages in the Workplace (Czech experience)	Postsecondary	LBJ-3237
4:00 PM -  5:30 PM	M4PA	Regina Kiperman-Kiselgof	Web-based Interactive Video Application as a Strategy for Employment of Deaf Professionals	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PC	Sharon Pajka-West	Blogging: an Effective Tool for Academic Writing	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PD	Salimah LaForce	Access to Mobile Emergency Alerting	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PE	Linda Bryant	Remote Tutoring: An Action Research Project	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PF	Ila Parasnis	The First Sign Language-Based Test for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PG	Robert Hancock	Overview of 3G Mobile Phone Video Conferencing Technologies	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PH	Jane Nunes	On-Line Resources Designed to Enhance Access and Support Services for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PI	Vincent Samar	An Interactive Computerized Sign Language Health Survey for Deaf Adults: Interface Design and Functionality	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PJ	Simon Ting	IdeaTools: Building Online Courses with Integrated Video Communications and Social Networking Capabilities	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PK	Paul Carlson	Portable Alert/Communications Technology System for the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PL	Min-Chi Kao	A Preliminary Study on Eye Movement between Expert and Novice in Learning Sign Language	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PM	Rebecca Isaac	Teaching Deaf Students in India	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PN	Michael Stinson	Effectiveness of Notetaking and Captioning for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Students with Tablet PCs	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PO	Eugene Lylak	A Web Site for Independent Vocabulary Practice	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	M4PP	George Slack	Dynamic Keyboard	All	LBJ-2nd Floor

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Tuesday—June 22
Time	Session	Presenter	Title	Audience	Room
8:00 AM	T8A	Nikolay Pustovoy	Current Trends of the Professional Education of the Persons with Disabilities in Russia	All	LBJ-2590
	T8B	James Woodward	The Dong Nai Project: A Case Study in High Quality, Low Cost, Low Tech Deaf-Centered Bilingual Education	PreK-12	SDC-1310
	T8C	Laura Frank	Using Technology to Support Learning for the College Student with Hearing Loss: From Services to Support the Sign Language Users to Services to Support the Oral Communicator	Postsecondary	LBJ-3237
	T8D	Angela Foreman	Use of the iClicker in an NTID Biotechnology Course	All	SDC-1300
9:00 AM	T9A	Maryellen Smolka	The CUNY CART Initiative: Fostering Success and Raising Student Achievement through Technology	All	SDC-1300
	T9B	Aaron Kelstone	Use of Visual Communication tools Inside of Distance Learning	All	LBJ-1310
	T9C	Donna Lange	Developing a Resource Center for Advancing Technological Education for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students	All	LBJ-3237
	T9D	Daniela Janakova	Building Creative Thinking, Reading and Writing Skills of the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Blind Learners	All	LBJ-2590
10:00 AM	T10A	Cathy Clarke	Using Social Networking Techniques to Enhance Learning for Deaf Students Online	All	LBJ-1300
	T10B	Kathy Tarello	Wikis and Blogs as Schoolwide Tools	PreK-12	SDC-1310
	T10C	Philip Hyssong	Remote Services -- What to Do and How to Do It!	All	LBJ-2590
	T10D	Mayumi Shirasawa	Access Technologies in Japan: PEPNet-Japan Training Workshop for Access Technologies	Postsecondary	LBJ-3237
11:00 AM	T11A	Barbara Keefe	Remote Interpreting in Rural School Districts	PreK-12	LBJ-2590
	T11B	Benjamin Cavaletto	In Our Hands: The Future of Translation of Frozen Texts to Sign Language	All	SDC-1310
	T11C	Steve Nelson	myAccess: A Web-Based Data System Supporting Access Services at RIT	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	T11D	Ellen Hibbard	Answering a PhD Qualifying Exam in ASL: One Person's Experience	Postsecondary	LBJ-3237
Noon		Lunch
1:00 PM	T1A	Loriann Macko	English Splash! a Teaching English Online Resource	All	SDC-1310
	T1B	Raja Kushalnagar	Empowering Mainstreamed Deaf Students with Multiple Video Perspectives	All	SDC-1300
	T1C	David Coco	Video Relay Service (VRS) and Deaf Education: A Panel Discussion	All	LBJ-2590
	T1D	Jeffrey Cougler	American Sign Language Finger Challenge	All	LBJ-3237
2:00 PM	T2A	Marsha Young	Experimentation with Classroom Capture	Postsecondary	LBJ-2590
	T2B	Becky Sue Parton	LAMBERT Grant: First Year Results of Using RFID Technologies to Facilitate Tangible Learning Interactions for Deaf Pre-Schoolers	PreK-12	SDC-1310
	T2C	Benjaporn Saksiri	Sign Language Terminology with Multimedia in Computers and Communication Education Context	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	T2D	Chirapa Niwatapant	Assessing Computer Knowledge Using Video-Based Signer Compared with Examination Text-Based	Postsecondary	LBJ-3237
3:00 PM	T3A	Gerard Walter	Using the NCES Data Analysis System (DAS) to Answer Questions Posed by Constituents	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	T3B	Ka Yiu Cheng	Asian SignBank	All	LBJ-3237
	T3C	Stephen Jacobs	OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)/Sugar Video Chat Enhancements for Deaf Communication and Education	All	SDC-1310
	T3D	Jonathan Millis	Drupal: Making Websites Easy to Manage	Postsecondary	LBJ-2590
4:00 PM -  5:30 PM	T4PA	Gail Hyde	Planning a Virtual Alliance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM Students at the Postsecondary Level	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PD	Radka Faltinova	All-in-One - Structure of Services for Hearing-Impaired University Students (in Czech Republic)	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PE	Guodong Bao	Highlighting Our Own Characteristics to Develop High-Quality Higher Education for the Deaf	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PF	Chenguang Fu	The Status of PEN-International in Beijing	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PG	Tsutomu Araki	Utilization of 3D Modeling for Mechanical Drawing Education	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PJ	Valentina Parubina	Educational and Information Technologies in Vocational Training for Auditory Handicapped Students at the Academy of Management (TISBI; Kazan, Russian Federation)	All	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PK	Igor Egorov	Interaction of the University's Subdivisions at Realization of Web-based Learning Technology of the Deaf (in Russia)	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PM	Xingzhi Sun	The Exhibition on the Achievements of Higher Deaf Education of Changchun University	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PN	Zhongzhou University	Introduction to Zhongzhou University's College of Special Education	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PO	Xinmin Yang	A Brief Introduction to Chongqing Normal University	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PP	Theresa De la Torre	Assessment of Faculty Competency in the Integration of Instructional Technology in the Classroom at the School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PQ	Elena Martynova	Pre-university Preparation Courses For People With Disabilities	Postsecondary	LBJ-2nd Floor
	T4PS	Marie Dolezalova	Presenting Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Language Resource Centre Outputs	All	LBJ-2nd Floor

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Wednesday—June 23
Time	Session	Presenter	Title	Audience	Room
8:00 AM	W8A	Rose Marie Toscano	Beyond Academic Writing: Web 2.0 Social Networking and Self-Publishing Technologies in the Writing Classroom.	All	SDC-1300
	W8B	Miriam Lerner	The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox: The Evolution of Poetry in American Sign Language	All	SDC-1310
	W8C	Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk	Multimedia Training courses vs. Social Discrimination: A Key Issue in a Process of Raising deaf/Deaf Awareness Among Academic Teachers	Postsecondary	LBJ-2590
	W8D	Nora Shannon	Structured Online Academic Reading (SOAR): Enhancing Reading Comprehension and Learning through Embedded Definitions, Pictures, Videos and Questions	All	LBJ-3237
9:00 AM	W9A	Patti Durr	Visual Stories of Deafhood	All	LBJ-2590
	W9B	Mary Beth Parker	e-Portfolio for Work Force Readiness	Postsecondary	SDC-1310
	W9C	Gary Long	Link Between Online Course Enrollments and Academic Achievement (GPA) of Deaf Students in Mainstream Settings	All	SDC-1300
		Francis Twahirwa	Linguistic and Attitudinal Obstacles Faced by Deaf People in Accessing Education in Rwanda	All	LBJ-3237
10:00 AM	W10A	Sharaine Rawlinson Roberts	CART: Bringing the Spoken Word to Veterans and Others with Hearing Loss	Postsecondary	LBJ-2590
	W10B	Becky Sue Parton	Foreign Sign Language Survey: Connecting Deaf Teens through On-line Learning	All	SDC-1300
	W10C	Kevin Williams	Student Assessment: Using CAIT (Communa Advanced Interpreter Training) Technology to Provide Visual, Audio and Print Feedback	All	LBJ-3237
	W10D	James Mallory	Second Life® as a Learning Tool	All	SDC-1310
11:00 AM	W11A	Ben Rubin	Enhancing the Notetaking Support Process: Utilizing Graphic Notes and New Technologies	All	LBJ-3237
	W11B-1	Alexey Volkov	Prototype of Surdo-Portal for Education and Method Support of Inclusive Professional Education of People with Disabilities	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	W11B-2	Alexey Volkov	An Electronic System for Personal Registration of the Use of Rehabilitation and Education Resources by Students with Disabilities at BMSTU	Postsecondary	SDC-1300
	W11C	Shelley Ardis	Using Distance Learning Tools to Connect Students, Parents, and Staff	All	SDC-1310
	W11D	Simon Ting	Integrating Video Communications Processes in Online Courses to Enhance the Learning Experience of Deaf Students in Online and Distance Learning	All	LBJ-2590
Noon		Lunch

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