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Elizabeth Holly Pfaff Lavolette

Education

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM), Honolulu, Hawai’i
Master of arts, second language studies
Degree received December 2008

Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan
Honors bachelor of science, mathematics
Honors bachelor of science, apparel and textile design
Degrees received May 2003

Experience

Research and design assistant, 12/08 through present
Graduate assistant, 6/08 through 12/08
Distance Course Design & Consulting Group, Department of Educational Technology, UHM
Collaborate with a group to convert courses from face-to-face to online delivery by
● Finding and testing appropriate open source and proprietary software for creating and administering content (e.g., CiteULike, eXe, Vue, Dimdim, Hot Potatoes).
● Writing course content, such as assignments and technology tutorials.
● Editing content and preparing it for delivery by coding it as HTML.
● Documenting group workflow processes, problems, and solutions on the group wiki.
● Training faculty and students to use Elluminate Live!
● Presenting workshops on topics including Hot Potatoes and HTML/CSS.
● Leading a product-comparison research project.
● Developed an open-source XML-based Flash quiz maker and an open-source XML-based Flash game-show maker.

Graduate assistant, 8/06 through 7/08
Hawai’i English Language Program, UHM

Freelance Copy Editor, 7/07 through present

Publications

Lavolette, E., Venable, M., Gose, E., & Huang, P. (in press). Comparing synchronous virtual classrooms: Student, instructor and course designer perspectives. Tech Trends.

Lavolette, Elizabeth (in press). The keyimage method of learning sound-symbol correspondences: A case study of learning written Khmer. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

Lavolette, Elizabeth (2009). Using Google Reader for professional development. The Word, 18(2), 3-7.

Lavolette, Elizabeth (2008). Go open source and share your ESL materials with the world! The Word, 18(1), 3‒5.

Presentations

Venable, M., McKimmy, P., Gose, E., Hutchinson, N., Lavolette, E., Huang, P., Nakamura, P., McCann, K., Meeder, R., & Pusal, E. (2009, June). Distance Course Design & Consulting Group (DCDC): Online course development in higher education. Presented at ED-MEDIA 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Honolulu, HI.

Lavolette, E. (2009, March). Learner interactions with and affective views of gloss presentations in CALL reading. Presented at Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Conference, Tempe, AZ.

Lavolette, E., Venable, M., Gose, E., & Huang, P. (2009, February). Comparing synchronous virtual classrooms: Student, instructor, and course designer perspectives. Presented at the 31st Hawaii Educational Research Association Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Lavolette, E. (2008, February) Using Hot Potatoes to create computerized language lessons. Presented at the Hawai’i Teachers of English as a Second Language Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Lavolette, E. (2007, July). The keyimage method of learning sound-symbol correspondences: A case study of learning written Khmer. Presented at the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages/Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute 2007 Conference on Applied Linguistics and Southeast Asian Language Teaching.

Honors & awards

Second Language Studies Graduate ‘Oihana Maika’i (Endeavor of Excellence) Fund for Professional Development award recipient, 4/08.
Received a grant for $645 to fund MA research project on online language learning.

Kurdyla and Associates Teacher of the Year, 2005

Princeton-in-Asia Marius Jansen Award winner, 2004
Received funding to study Japanese while living in Japan.

MSU Alumni Distinguished Scholar (recipient of 9 semesters of full tuition, room, board, and a stipend), 1999 through 2003

Technology skills

Coding languages
● HTML (advanced; coding & validating)
● CSS (basic)
● JavaScript/jQuery (basic)
● PHP (basic)
● ActionScript 3.0 (skilled)

Applications
● Expert
o Hot Potatoes (software for creating computerized learning activities)
o Elluminate Live! (virtual classroom system)
o MS Office
o Open Office (open-source multi-platform office suite)
o GoogleDocs
o WordPress (installation and use)
● Highly skilled
o phpMyAdmin (MySQL database client)
o Gimp (open-source graphics editing tool)
o Adobe Flash (CS4)

Language skills

English
● Native speaker

Japanese
● Functional written and oral communication for conversation, business, and daily life

French
● Atrophied oral and written communication

Unpaid experience

Copy editor, Language Learning and Technology, 11/07 through present

Co-editor, College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature Graduate Student Conference Proceedings, 2007 and 2008

Copy editor, Reading in a Foreign Language, 9/06 through present

Radio disc jockey, 89 FM The Impact, MSU, 10/99 through 5/03
● Ran sound board, CD players, minidisc players, playback machine, and spoke live on-air.
● Learned to resolve problems quickly and developed public-speaking skills.

Activities

Hawaii Educational Research Association member since 1/09

Pan-Pacific Distance Learning Association member since 9/08
Worked with a group of volunteers to build a thin-client Linux (CentOS) computer lab out of e-waste for an underfunded elementary school (11/08)

Member of volunteer organizing committee for Second Language Research Forum, 10/08
Worked with a team to write grants to fund this international conference organized by graduate students, held at UHM

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium member since 10/08

Certifications

jQuery Essential Training, Certificate of Completion (03/03/10)

Web Accessibility Principles, Certificate of Completion (10/06/09)

PHP with MySQL: Beyond the Basics, Certificate of Completion (08/04/09)

Certified completion of the online professional development series “Teaching All Students, Reaching All Learners: Innovative Ways to Address Disability & Diversity in the Postsecondary Classroom” by the University of Hawai`i at Manoa Center on Disability Studies and Center for Teaching Excellence. (01/09/09)

ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training Certification of Completion (12/04/08)