The French Connection: Catherine Wiebe

Wiebe's use of multimedia gives her students "a window into France"

Catherine Wiebe's students are lucky. Wiebe's French courses are almost like getting a trip to Paris--and when her students actually do set foot on French soil, they will be well prepared.

"Thanks to technology, my students and I may now know more about France than my French family!" laughs Wiebe, a Parisian native whose relatives still live in the City of Light.

Wiebe's secret for engaging students, to give them, as she says, "a window into France," is her creative use of multimedia.

Wiebe currently oversees curriculum development for French courses taught to more than 250 students each term, but her dedication to enriching the curriculum is not new. It began more than twenty years ago, when she was still a graduate teaching fellow at the UO. Even in those early days of technological innovation, Wiebe availed herself of whatever new teaching tools came down the pike, taking full advantage of the tech support offered by the Knight Library's New Media Center (now known as the Center for Educational Technologies).

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