Project MORE: Progress Report 

May 2003

  • Boyd Davis and Lisa Russell-Pinson met with Lloyd Wimberley, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction at CMS; also in attendance were Kathy Meads, Director of Second Languages, and Jennifer Pearsall, Second Language Resource Teacher.  Dr. Davis and Dr. Russell-Pinson introduced Dr. Wimberley to Project MORE and gave him many project-developed materials; Dr. Wimberley expressed interest in the professional development opportunities sponsored by the project and would like to schedule another meeting to discuss the project.  Dr. Meads and Ms. Pearsall agreed to draw up an action plan to publicize Project MORE’s activities.
     
  • Following the meeting with Dr. Wimberley, Dr. Davis and Dr. Russell-Pinson spoke with Dr. Meads and Ms. Pearsall about some future initiatives of the project, including providing mini-grants to CMS teachers and schools.  They will meet in June to further discuss these plans.
     
  • We will be holding a repeat of the technology in-service on June 17th.  To register, please send an email to Dr. Russell-Pinson at projectm@email.uncc.edu to reserve a seat.  Please include your name, position and school in the body of the message.
     
  • Yuangshan Chuang completed supervising the collection of interviews in multiple varieties of Chinese this month.  We are excited to have narratives in Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese and are grateful to Dr. Chuang for his spearheading this part of our collection.
     
  • We would also like to thank Blair Rudes for donating close to 100 interviews that his class collected to the project.  Dr. Rudes’ contribution has now increased the holdings of Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection to over 800 interviews.
     
  • Caroline Linse, co-writer of the grant and consultant for Project MORE, will be staying in Minsk, Belarus for a third year on her Fulbright and has decided not to return to UNC-Charlotte.  We wish Dr. Linse all the best with her future plans.
     
  • We are pleased to welcome Grayson Midulla, Project MORE intern for May and June, and Crystal Sherrod, a new transcriber.  At the same time, we say goodbye to Dena Teeter McFadden, Bill Dennis and Ian Brailsford.  We wish them well in their future endeavors.
     

Lisa Russell-Pinson, Project Manager

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