Samuel H. "Pete" Smith, Jr.

PERSONAL

Director, Center for Distance Education
University of Texas at Arlington
Phone: (817) 272-5727
Fax: (817) 272-5728

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 1992.  Foreign Language Education Center, University of Texas (Austin). Dissertation: "The Effects of Two Types of Computer-Based Text Manipulation Practice on Russian Language Learning."
• M. A., 1998.  Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Texas (Austin), Majored in Slavic Linguistics and  Foreign Language Education.
• B. S., 1985.  Pennsylvania State University.  Majored in Russian Technical Translation.
• Mittelstufenprüfung,1984. Goethe-Institut, München.
• B. A., 1983. Pennsylvania State University. Majored in General Arts and Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1997- Center for Distance Education, University of Texas at Arlington, 1997—Present, Director. Established Center for Distance Education with intranet/Internet focus. Authored start-up budget and obtained funding for cutting-edge desktop training courseware development facility (total spending in 1997-98 academic year: $1 million). Oversaw development and delivery of video-rich desktop-training-style classes. Promoted asynchronous learning network approach for credit and non-credit instruction. Administered technical facets of creating and maintaining production and delivery libraries of digital educational media in 10-15 Tbyte range. Established and maintained successful work environment for a team of highly-creative digital media specialists (7 full-time personnel). Created partnerships with major supercomputer firm and local school districts. Coordinated with campus offices required to develop a modern digital media facility, including Offices of Academic Computing, Accounting, Budgets and Planning, Development, Grants and Contracts, Human Resources, Information Technology, Physical Plant, Purchasing, Vouchering, Security, and University Video. Participated in University-wide task forces on Strategic Enrollment, Developmental Education, and Corporate Education. Served as campus coordinator for U.T.—System’s TeleCampus initiative, obtaining significant System grant support for on-line class development. Taught Russian language and Russian for Research and the Professions (non-credit course delivered via email).
• 1992-1997 Language Acquisition Center, University of Texas at Arlington,  Director. Management of mid-sized language media center with curriculum-wide media integration philosophy. Responsibility for fiscal management and development of facility with 100,000 users/year, 11 part-time personnel. Developed and implemented comprehensive program to integrate media materials into language curriculum, significantly increasing educational use of facility. Created personnel team with emphasis on service-oriented, user-friendly media facility. Expanded equipment holdings, including computer network and audio/video equipment, on a fixed budget. Instituted an ongoing in-house development program, heading instructional design team to work with teachers in the production and collection of audio, video, and software materials, including more than 400 software products utilizing digitized computer-based audio and video. Used local cable access channel for distribution of instructional materials. Regular coordination with campus offices required to run a modern media facility, including Offices of Academic Computing, Budgets and Payroll, Business, Development, Human Resources, Media Services, Physical Plant, Purchasing and Vouchering, and Security. Provided community outreach in the form of lectures, workshops, and demonstrations to publicize Center work to the community and to academia. Established World-Wide Web network site for language instruction and dissemination of computer materials and audio-on-demand. Taught graduate seminars in language learning and media, as well as Web authoring. Taught undergraduate courses in first-, second-, third-, and fourth-year Russian, as well as first-year German.
• Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Texas (Austin), 1988—1992, Assistant Instructor, Lecturer.
•  1981—1983, 1984—1985. Student Division, Department of University Safety, Pennsylvania State University. Student Assistant, police/security setting. Training Supervisor, responsible for design and delivery of training and instructional materials.

DISTINCTIONS

• Associate Editor for Electronic Publications, IALL Journal, 1999 – present. Editorship of electronically-distributed materials from scholarly journal of the International Association of Learning Laboratories.
• Dissertation Committees: Aaron Ostrum (1996, University of Texas—Austin, Co-Chair); Robin Lombard (1997); Kim Hochmeister (1999).
• Member, Board of Directors, North Texas Taping and Radio for the Blind (1997 – present).
• Editor-in-Chief, IALL Journal, 1996 – 1999. Editorship of scholarly journal of the International Association of Learning Laboratories, including solicitation and review of manuscripts, oversight of columnists, and general editing.
• Virtual University/Distance Education Committee, U.T.—System, 1996 –1997.
• President, South Central Region, IALL (International Association of Learning Labs), 1994 – 1997.
• "Teaching with the Web: Trails and Tools for German Study," attendance at Goethe-Institut workshop, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1996.
• Exhibits Coordinator/Organizing Committee, Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Notre Dame, Indiana, May, 1995.
• Host, Austrian Film Festival, October, 1994.
• Managing Editor, IALL Journal, September, 1994—1996. Oversee day-to-day operations of scholarly journal, including editing, layout, printing, and international distribution.
• Vice-President, South Central Region, IALL (International Association of Learning Labs), 1992– 1994.
• Host, South Central IALL Regional Conference, April, 1994.
• Reviewer, IALL Journal.
• National Copyright Committee, IALL.
• Panel Chair, Russian Language and Methodology, South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, October, 1993.
• Faculty Advisor, Phi Sigma Iota, University of Texas Chapter, 1993 –1997.
• Professional Development Awards, University of Texas (Austin), 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992.
• Panel Chair, Computers and Foreign Languages, South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, October, 1992.
• Panel Chair, Russian for Science and Technology, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, San Francisco, December, 1991.
• Language Laboratory Committee, University of Texas (Austin), 1991 –1992.
• Rewrite of Placement Examination in Scientific and Technical Russian, CIEE Program in Novosibirsk, 1990.
• Panel Chair, Russian Language and Linguistics, South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, October, 1989.
• University Fellowship, University of Texas (Austin), 1986 – 1988, 1988 – 1989.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Texas, academic year 1987– 1988.
• Phi Beta Kappa (Academic)
• Phi Kappa Phi (Academic)
• Phi Sigma Iota (Foreign Language)
• Phi Alpha Theta (History)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• More than 150 demonstrations of U.T.A. on-line courseware, 1997 - 1999.
• "No, no, no non voglio piu servir: Language Media Driving the Curriculum," Roundtable (with Ursula Williams, and Jan Marston), Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, University of Maryland, June, 1999.
• "Russian for Research and the Professions-An Email Class for Astronaut-Candidates" Annual Meeting of the South Central Association of Language Laboratories, Waco, Texas, April, 1999.
• "Redefining Distance Education: The Network Future of Distance Education," Symposium sponsored by Silicon Graphics, Arlington, Texas, November, 1997.
• "Digital Libraries for German Teachers," Workshop (co-presented with Andreas Lixl-Purcell) sponsored by Goethe-Institut Houston, Arlington, Texas, November, 1997.
• "Language Labs: Who Needs 'Em?" Roundtable (with Woody Smith, Jan Marston, Virginia Lewis, Claire Bartlett, and Sharon Sellars), TEXTESOL, Austin, Texas, November, 1997.
• "Administration of Distance Learning Programs," Roundtable (with George Barnes and Robert Musgrove), Annual Meeting of the Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1997.
• "Language Learning Technology at Century's End: Distributed Learning on the Internet," Roundtable (with Jan Marston, Virginia Lewis, and Claire Bartlett), South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, Texas, November, 1997.
• "Monads, Monks, Missing Links, and Multimedia: Where Instructional Technology Fails," Roundtable (with Ursula Williams, Jan Marston, and Ed Bardwell), Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories/FLEAT III, Victoria, Canada, August, 1997.
• "The Comprehension Approach and the Future of CALL," Roundtable (with Jim Nord and Yukio Takefuta), Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories/FLEAT III, Victoria, Canada, August, 1997.
• "Advertising and Publishing in the IALL Journal," Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories/FLEAT III, Victoria, Canada, August, 1997.
• "The World-Wide Web-A World of Tongues," Invited Workshops, University of Arkansas/Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, April, 1997.
• "The Network Future of Language Instruction," Invited Lecture, Community College Association of Texas, Austin, Texas, February, 1997.
• "Close Study of Oral Texts: Audio-on-Demand for Russian Language Learners," South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, Texas, October, 1996.
• "Are Education and the Electronic Media Mutually Exclusive? Why American Universities Seem Mired in the Information Superditch," Invited Lecture, Honors Program, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April, 1996.
• "An Introduction to the Language Acquisition Center", South Central Regional Meeting of the IALL, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, April, 1996.
• "Surviving Start-Up and Early Growth: Role of the Director," Roundtable, Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Notre Dame, Indiana, May, 1995.
• "Surviving Start-Up and Early Growth: Advocacy," Roundtable, Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Notre Dame, Indiana, May, 1995.
• "Surviving Start-Up and Early Growth: Budgeting and Finance," Roundtable, Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Notre Dame, Indiana, May, 1995.
• "Miracle Materials Students Won't Put Down: Closed Captioning and Other Self-Motivating Materials," Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Notre Dame, Indiana, May, 1995.
• "Principles for Media Use in Language Education," Invited Lecture and Workshop, American Council of Teachers of Russian, RUSTEP Winter Meetings, Austin, Texas, February, 1995.
• "Closed Captioning and Satellite Materials in Language Instruction," Invited Lecture, Technology Center, Duncanville Independent School District, Duncanville, Texas, October, 1994.
• "Media Materials at UTA," Invited Lecture, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, October, 1994.
• "Faculty Orientation, Language Acquisition Center," University of Texas at Arlington, August, 1994.
• "Satellite Radio," Contributed Column, IALL Journal, May, 1994.
• "E-mail and Internet Resources for German," Workshop, Goethe-Institut, Houston, Texas, May, 1994.
• "Media Materials at UTA," Invited Lecture, Graduate Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, May, 1994.
• "Principles for Media Use in Language Education," Invited Lecture and Workshop, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, April, 1994.
• "It Doesn't Matter Which Damn Textbook We Use: Phases of Learning Theory and Second Language Learning," Faculty Lecture Series, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, March, 1994.
• "Closed Captioning and Software in Language Instruction," Invited Lecture, Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Texas, December, 1993.
• "Closed-Captioned Star Trek: The Next Generation of Video Materials," TEXTESOL, Dallas, Texas, November, 1993
• "Reading Russian News Broadcasts: Using Digitized Video and Word Processors to Present Authentic Russian-Language Materials," South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, Texas, October, 1993.
• "Faculty Orientation, Language Acquisition Center," University of Texas at Arlington, August, 1993.
• "Media Materials at UTA," Invited Lecture, ESL Graduate Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, July, 1993.
• "Elvis pour Quarante Dollars: Multimodal Video Input in the French Language Classroom", Biannual Meeting of the International Association of Language Laboratories, Lawrence, Kansas, June, 1993.
• "Jeopordy!, An Interactive Computer Game", South Central Regional Meeting of the IALL, Dallas, Texas, May, 1993.
• "Multimodal Video Input in the French Language Classroom", Regional AATF Meeting, Arlington, Texas, May, 1993.
• "The Second Language Acquisition Process in Immersion Contexts: Theory and Research," ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 345 491, 1993.
• Computer demonstration materials for "Multimedia in the Russian Language Classroom," American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1992.
• "Computers in the Teaching of Beginning Russian," South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, Tennessee, October, 1992.
• "Video in the Language Classroom," Language Acquisition Center," University of Texas at Arlington, October, 1992.
• "Faculty Orientation, Language Acquisition Center," University of Texas at Arlington, August, 1992.
• "Text Reconstruction," Computer Exercise Materials, 1992.
• "The Effects of Word Processor-Based Practice in an RST Classroom," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, San Francisco, California, December, 1991.
• "An Introduction to Computer Communications," Workshop for Center for Soviet and East European Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, November, 1991.
• "A Collection of Authentic Materials for Russian for Science and Technology," South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1991.
• "Using MacConcordance for Text Processing," South Central Small College Computer Conference, Austin, Texas, April, 1991.
• "A Collection of Authentic Newspaper Materials for First-Semester Business Russian," Language for World Business and the Professions Conference, Ypsilanti, Michigan, April, 1991.
• "Generative Activities for the Language Classroom: Using the Computer for Language Exploration," South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, Texas, October, 1990.
• "Beliefs about Language Learning as Held By First-Semester Students of Russian," Western Slavic Association, Tucson, Arizona, April, 1990.
• "Programming and Authoring Languages and Systems for the Russian Language Instructor," South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1989.
• "The Second Language Acquisition Process in Immersion Contexts: Theory and Research," Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1988.
• "Russian Language Sheltered Course: A Proposal," South Central Modern Language Association, Arlington, Texas, October, 1988.
• "Shortwave Radio Broadcasts in the Russian Language Classroom," Western Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado, April, 1988.