World time zones for Online Chat Books, Articles and Conference Presentations Trace Effects/Language Effects: Scriptwriting for a Language Practice Adventure Game.  Presentation for the CALL IS Academic Session at TESOL Dallas. 21 March  2013. A Brief History of CALL: Theory and Research. My talk at CALL IS's 25th Anniversary Colloquium, Denver TESOL Convention, 26 March 2009. Original paper from the CATESOL Journal. Check out the video of my talk at TESOL 2008, NYC, The Effect of Technology on SLA (and vice versa). Video Online (2005). TESOL Convention,San Antonio, TX, 29 Mar 2005.  Revised and updated 2008 at Authorstream. See more at my  author's page. Virtual=Real - My ed tech blog: information, resources, teaching tips for using technology. Be sure to join the CALL-IS Diigo group and social bookmarking site. Great resources that you can help crowd-source! View the EVO Video archive for frequently updated info, tools and resources for video online. Works for the technology-using teacher includes papers, presentations, videos, lesson plans, short articles, et al.	Links to my work: Trace Effects, a language practice adventure game created by the U.S. Dept. of State and distributed free world-wide. On CD and online. Learn more at the American English website. Free teacher resources at the Trace Effects Ning (sign-in required). TESOL Technology Standards, applicable in a wide range of contexts: ESL/EFL, all age levels, content-based ESP, for online and blended settings with few to abundant  resources. Specific examples for classroom application. Created by a team of experts in CALL and pedagogy. CALL Environments: Research Practice and Critical Issues, 2nd edition, ed. by Joy Egbert and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, is an extensive compendium of the latest in tools, activities, and pedagogy. Learning Languages through Technology, ed. by Sarah Rilling and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith. A set of case studies that form the perfect companion to CALL Environments. Constructing the Paragraph is online and free for your use. It presents students with exercises and tutorials in academic writing. My developmental writing students have experienced repeated failures. Now I have to find a way to motivate them to come to this class so that I can work with them....The format and exercises make the writing process more manageable both for teaching and learning. I am grateful. -- Patricia Brooks, Univ of Houston (e-mail 12 April 2007) Live Action English Interactive and More Live Action: Total Physical Response on the Computer. More Live Action appears this spring. Visit the Command Performance publisher's website for more information and  a video demo of a whole chapter from LAEI.   The Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive is based on the classic adult learner's dictionary. Now in a new edition with video. . . . and MORE: Tips, tools, and short lesson plans for the computer-using teacher Recent updates in Quicksteps to Teaching Poetry See also: Quicksteps to Writing a Short Story
CONFERENCES & EVENTS The Electronic Village Online begins a new season every Jan-Feb. Don't miss these sessions, brought to you by TESOL's CALL Interest Section.     A new Call for Proposals appears in September. The Call for Participation comes out in December. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The next TESOL convention will be held in Portland, Oregon. Don't miss it!    Call for Proposals     Meet the Webheads in Action, a Community of Practice for ESL/EFL  teachers. Join Webhead leader, Vance Stevens every Saturday/Sunday for Learning2gether live video chats. Links to favorite professional associations: CATESOL  & TELL-IG CALL-IS's Electronic Village Online - FREE online professional development           Call for Proposals in annually in September.            Call for Participation annually in December.          Be sure to join the CALL-IS Diigo group and social bookmarking site. Great resources abound! TESOL - Check out their online resources OTAN - Outreach and Technical Assistance Network   MERLOT - Multimedia  Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching and their home in Second Life   Use free videos and exercises at Real-English.com. See the new RE FaceBook page for teachers (sign-in required). Monitor page for changes via email.         it's private by ChangeDetection Visit my blog, Virtual=Real, on useful technology for teaching languages. Visit the EVO Video wiki for resources for teaching with video. Visit the CALL IS VIrtual Software List at Diigo: social bookmarking for ESL/EFL. Tops Tags: teachers, adult-learners, tools, pedagogy, teacher-training, online-lessons, writing, young-learners, content-based.