The AATF has been present on the Internet
since fall 1994, when it opened its gopher on a server at the
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The first AATF home
page on the World Wide Web opened in September 1995 as a joint
project of the AATF Telematics Commission and the Department of
French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where
Catherine Dhaussy was responsible for the original conception
and hosting of the site. The main AATF Web site eventually moved
to be hosted by the Division of Modern Languages and Literatures
at UTSA and co-managed by Townsend Bowling, Chair of the AATF
Telematics and New Technologies Commission, and Jayne Abrate,
Executive Director of the AATF. Management and hosting of
sections of the AATF Web is shared among several individuals and
institutions. In May 1997, Joel Mayer, Douglas MacArthur High
School, San Antonio, Texas, joined the site management team as
creator and administrator of the Grand Concours site and, later,
of the Babillard des membres. In fall 1998, Lisa Narug, then
Assistant Director of the Grand Concours, now its
Director, assumed duties as administrator of the Grand
Concours site. Betty Clough, founding member of the AATF
Telematics and New Technologies Commission, became editor of the
Babillard des membres in January 2001. In Fall 1998, Christopher
Pinet, Montana State University, Editor-in-Chief of the
French Review, opened on a server at his institution a new
French Review site. The National Headquarters and
National French Week materials developed by Jayne Abrate, and
hosted since November 1999 on a server at Southern Illinois
University, were moved to the server at UTSA in January 2001. In
August 2002, the entire AATF Web site, with the exception of the
French Review site, moved to
www.frenchteachers.org.
Since 2006, Lara Lomicka Anderson, Chair of the AATF Commission
on Telematics and New Technologies, manages the technology
section of the Web site.