2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Revised 1/20/12 - may change!

FASLTA Conference

FRIDAY

 2:00pm Vendors set up
 4:00pm Registration opens
 5:00pm Welcome (housekeeping & Vendor recognition)
 5:30pm Keynote
 6:00pm Heavy hors d'oeurves (food) and Social time
 6:30pm Ice Breakers & Getting to Know You (guided 15-20 min) (Olmstead & Chaves)
 7:30pm Doors open for performance ($10 for non-conference attendees)
 8:00pm Keith Wann performance (PG-rated!)
 9:00pm Flagler College's ASL/Sign Language Studies Program (Loudenback)
10:00pm Show & Tell: You can't get in without a Toy ("Share-shop" - bring an activity
              you use in your classroom and demonstrate how to use it. Go home with
              copies of other people's ideas!)

SATURDAY

Breakfast at the hotel

  7:00am Registration continues
  8:30am Welcome (housekeeping & vendor recognition, raffle)
  9:00am Vendor Drawings & Artwork
  9:20am - break -
  9:30am Values & Norms of the Deaf Culture (Clement)
10:30am - break - food & vendors
11:00am Critical Pedagogy for ASL Instruction (Robinson & Carlson)

12:00pm FASLTA Lunch & Business Meeting (lunch provided!)

  1:30pm Simulations: An Effective Strategy to Get Students to Use The Language (Zinza)
              (3hrs plus breaks)
  2:30pm - break -
  3:45pm - break -
  5:30pm Dinner on your own

  7:00pm Doors open for performance ($5 for non-conference attendees)
  7:30pm SMI Literary Society with Betti Bonni & Paul Jones
  9:00pm Social Time - meet other teachers, do more "show & tell" - hang out!
  Vendors close

SUNDAY

Breakfast at the hotel

  8:30am Welcome (housekeeping & vendor recognition, raffle)
  9:00am ASL Aesthetics: ASL: YOUR AREA ASL INFORMATION HAVE WHAT?
              (English: What ASL Resources are in your area?) (Loudenback)
10:00am - break -
10:20am What is the Deaf Community? What is the Core of the Deaf Culture
              and Deaf Community? (Clement)
11:20am - break -
11:30am ASL Certification "Exposed" - What papers to keep? (Ashton)
12:00pm Wrap-up and ASLTA Clock Hours / RID CEUs