WELCOME TO THE GIS PROJECTS’ PAGE

Maintained by:

Dr. Joel Goldfield

Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (in French)

Director, Assistant Teacher/Oral Practice Session (AT/OPS) Program

Founding Director (1994-2008), Culpeper Language Resource Center

Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures

Fairfield University

Collaborative projects and presentations involving Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Modern Languages and Literatures (MLL).  Contributions by Dr. Joel Goldfield, unless otherwise noted.

2008       Invited presentation, 11/08, The Magic and Reality of GIS in Language Learning, GIS Day, Southern CT State U.

· Invited keynote presentation, 5/08, GIS and Multimedia as “Portkeys” to Language Learning, conference of the New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT), Wesleyan University.

· Invited workshop presentation, 1/08,  Putting the Matrix in Its Place:  GIS in Language Learning and Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Military Institute and Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA;

· Workshop presentation, 1/08, What Is GIS, and What Does It Mean to Us in Higher Education?, Longwood University, Farmville, VA

2007       Paper - Abstract, “Geographical Information Systems and the Exploration of French Culture and Society,” Digital Humanities 2007, U. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign.  Also see entire conference book of abstracts (27 Mb) at:  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/2368.

· Joel D. Goldfield and Kurt Schlichting, “Foreign Language and Sociology:  Exploring French Society and Culture,” in Understanding Place:  GIS and Mapping across the Curriculum, ed. Diane Sinton and Jennifer Lund (Redlands, CA: ESRI Press) 2007, pp. 226-235.  Click on the following link to view a draft of this chapter:  Draft of “Foreign Language and Sociology.”  For more information, see http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jgoldfield. 

2006       Invited presentation, GIS and the Exploration of French Society and Culture, invited lecture presented to Five College GIS Day, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

2003       Invited presentation, 9/03, Joel Goldfield, Larry Miners, Kathy Nantz, with a contribution by Kurt Schlichting:  Fostering Inquiry and Engaged Learning across the Disciplines:  A Tale of Pioneers, Grants and Distribution of Wealth (of Knowledge), Annual Convention of the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U).  See http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jgoldfield/present/aacu03_files/frame.htm.

· Invited workshop and presentation, 3/03, The Fairfield University ISLT Initiative:  Using GIS to See the Invisible (or How I Humanized the Matrix), St. Lawrence U., NY.

1999-2002 International Studies/Language Technology Initiative (ISLT).  More information about the GIS and Virtual Language Lab project (1999-2002).