Media Centers as Agents for Community Outreach: The University of Miami Model

Abstract

It soon became apparent to me that the foreign language teachers in these programs had little specialized institutional support and that there was only limited interaction between the staffs at different magnet schools. One thing that became very evident was that the teachers had very limited exposure to the new technologies that were revolutionizing foreign language teaching at the university level. It occurred to me (incorrectly!) that with very little effort, I could help to expose some of the K -12 foreign language teachers to some ofthe more promising technologies that were routinely employed in our language lab at the University ofMiami.