Kelly Stack
Who I am
Faculty Support Specialist
Faculty Instructional Technology Center
UC Santa Cruz
Ph.D., Linguistics
In the UCLA Linguistics Department, I completed my dissertation in May, 1999, Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II. It's about the acquisition of an artificial language by a small child. I am also interested in the phonology of signed languages.
M.S., Instructional Design and Technology
I earned my M.S. degree from CSU Fullerton in 2007. Seems kind of backwards, getting the M.S. after the Ph.D., but I'm just a glutton for formal education.
What I've Written
Educational Technology Articles and Presentations:
- MyStudySpace.org brochure
- Disability Access Web Briefing, with the other members of the Access Web Team
- Disability Access Web Symbol: Signage in Cyberspace
- Specific Barriers to Web Access, with Patrick Burke and Guido Grimaldi
- The InfoUCLA Story
- Between the Web and the Hard Copy
- Developing and Maintaining a Decentralized Web, December 1995, 4th International World Wide Web Conference Tutorial, with Kent Wada and Katie Scheding.
- Beginning HTML 4.0 Authoring and Electronic Publishing
Web publishing projects I've been associated with (alas, most of these sites no longer exist):
- MyStudySpace.org
- The InfoUCLA Project
- UCLA Student Information Web
- UCLA Disability Access Web
- UCLA Campus Web Publishers
Papers and Presentations in Linguistics:
- Language Accessibility in a Transliterated Education: English Signing Systems (2004), in E. Winston (ed.), Educational Interpreting: How it Can Succeed
- Rejection and Innovation in the Acquisition of an Artificial Language (1998), proceedings of the 1998 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
- Weak Drop and the Representation of 2-Handed Signs in ASL (1997), Papers from the 1997 Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
- The Development of a Pronominal System in the Absence of a Natural Target Language (1996), poster session at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference.
- Weak Drop and the Representation of 2-Handed Signs in ASL (1996), poster session at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference.
- How to Write a Generative Linguistics Paper in Language Acquisition (at UCLA)
- Tiers and Syllable Structure in American Sign Language: Evidence from Phonotactics (my masters thesis)
- Minimal Pairs, Features and Phonemes -- an introductory exercise about the phonology of American Sign Language
MyStudySpace.org
MyStudySpace grew out of the culminating project for my M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology (CSU Fullerton, 2007). The site is meant to demonstrate how Web 2.0 technologies (in this case Drupal) can be used to coordinate academic support services across a campus. Feel free to visit, create an account, and look around.
Nebraska
From August 1998 - May 1999 I lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, where I taught at UNL (Go Huskers!) and completed (whew!) my dissertation. Here's a little web site where I chronicled my Adventures in Nebraska.
Michael Yasui
Don't you want to know what he's doing right now?
Museums and Other Stuff