TIMELINE
1.
Participants REGISTER for
the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006
Sessions during the 2-week period:
- Monday, January 1 -
- Sunday January 15, 2006
2. EVO
2005 SESSIONS run for 6 weeks:
- Sunday, January 16 - Sunday, February
26, 2006
3. TESOL Convention 2006, Tampa Bay, FL, runs Wednesday, March 15
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Saturday, March 18, 2006. There will be meetings with and
demonstrations by EVO session
leaders and
participants. An Internet Fair session
will be held at the
CALL IS Electronic
Village, TBA.
Several events in
the
convention's Electronic Village will be synchronously Webcast by WorldBridges (Skype: worldbridges)
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CONTACT THE
ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE COORDINATION TEAM
In your mailer, be sure to remove the spaces in the address.
For
queries about specific
EVO sessions, please contact the moderator of the session
directly.
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Elizabeth
Hanson-Smith, Computers
for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento,
CA, USA
<ehansonsmi@yahoo.com>
Dafne
González, Universidad
Simón
Bolivar,
Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza @ yahoo.com>
Chris
Jones, Arizona Western College, Yuma,
AZ, USA
<edtec2002 @ yahoo.com>
Aiden
Yeh, Wenzao
Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<aidenyeh @ yahoo.com>
Buthaina
al-Othman, Kuwait University,
Kuwait City
<buthaina_3 @ yahoo.com>
Maryanne
Burgos,
Maryland, USA
<maryanneburgos @
yahoo.com>
Susan
Marandi, Al-Zahra University, Teheran, Iran
<susanmarandi @
yahoo.com>
Nicolas
Gromik, Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
<gromik_tohoku @
yahoo.com.au>
Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
<vstevens @
emirates.net.ae>
Christine
Bauer-Ramazani, St. Michael's College,
Colchester, VT, USA
<cbauer-ramazani @
smcvt.edu>
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To find
out more about TESOL's Online Teaching Certificate Program (the
foundation course begins January 16), go to TESOL and click on >PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT and then >ONLINE EDUCATION, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org.
(EVO is not a part of
the OTCP.)
The CALL
Interest Section of the
international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to
participate in the Electronic
Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual
extension of the TESOL 2006 Convention in Tampa Bay, FL. The
intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2006
participants and those who can participate only virtually.
You
do not
need to be a TESOL member to participate in sessions of the
Electronic Village
Online.
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Copyright
© EVO Coordination
Team
11/28/2005
E Hanson-Smith & A Yeh
Some
graphics copyright free from buttongenerator.com
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----> Sign up at this
session site directly after
January 1st.
Registration closes January 15.
Sessions run from January
16 to February 26.
We strongly recommend
that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
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Just
in Time Teaching
Encourages
participants to explore possible uses, and to create their
own blogs as a collaborative project for the peer exchange of ideas and
knowledge.
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JiTT – Just in Time Teaching looks at ways teachers can find out what
students know and think about material before they begin to teach it.
Knowing these things allows teachers to adjust to the students “just in
time” and give them what they need. Using JiTT in a Web environment,
teachers might ask students to post their comments or reactions to an
article or assignment before class so the teacher can read them and
then present appropriate material in class. In a non-Web environment,
this could be done by asking students to respond to readings or other
materials in writing and then teachers collecting and reading them
before a class. In so doing, the teacher can address the troubling
aspects of assignments and where students show they have a need of
input or interest “just in time.”
Objectives:
Participants will
- become familiar with ways we can do JiTT
and the advantages
- create some Knowledge Surveys and
understand their uses and advantages
- interact with other members to construct
better tools and procedures for language learning using JiTT
- reflect on our own ways of teaching and
see how they can be improved with better ongoing needs analysis
- form an online community of support for
exploring the above objectives
Target
Audience
ESL/EFL teachers interested in improving their
teaching through a better understanding of what their students know and
think. Having an e-mail account, familiarity with word processors, and
Internet access are all that is required.
Weekly Content
- Week I –
Getting acquainted with Yahoo Groups. Introductions. Exploratory
Knowledge Survey. Participants will get acquainted with the Yahoo
Groups platform, introduce themselves to the group, and complete a
Knowledge Survey about the material that will be presented in the
course.
- Week II –
Introductory articles and discussions about Just in Time Teaching -
Participants will read articles and post their reflections and
questions about using JiTT on line and off. Moderators will share their
experiences with JiTT.
- Week III -
Introductory articles about Knowledge Surveys (KSs) as JiTT tools.
Participants will get to see several examples of Knowledge Surveys,
read about them, and discuss their construction and use with a view
toward creating our own the following week.
Guest presenter: Ed Nuhfer,
Idaho State University (creator of KSs)
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- Week IV - Action
research with JiTT and KSs. Participants will plan, create, and if
possible begin their own KSs and experiences with JiTT. They will post
online their activities to get feedback from other participants and the
moderators.
- Week V -
Continuing action research and looking at first results. Participants
who were able to do JiTT in some way will report on their preliminary
findings and others may continue elaborating their designs.
- Week VI -
Wrap-up: conclusions and evaluation. While continuing action research
and looking at more results, participants will post final (on-going)
results and look at their plans to use JiTT in the future. Session
evaluation.
There will be weekly summaries posted by the moderators.
Communication
Media
JiTT Yahoo Group
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jittjamming/
Discussion postings, Polls, Links
Alado chat voice and text - http://www.alado.net
Potentially Podcasts
Email for personal assistance
About
the Moderators:
- Jennifer
Edwards is an MA in TESL student at Hawaii Pacific University.
She has lived in Japan for 20 years teaching English. She opened a
conversation school 14 years ago and has taught at Nagoya Junior
College for the past 10 years. She is interested in early childhood
English education. She plans to graduate in March 2006 and return to
Japan.
Jeff Mehring
is an MA in TESL student at Hawaii Pacific University. He spent five
years teaching English in Japan to both high school student and adults.
He also spent a few months teaching English in the Middle East. He
plans to teach on the Big Island and in Japan in the future.
Tim Murphey
is a Professor at Dokkyo University in Saitama Japan and a Visiting
Professor at Hawaii Pacific University, summers. He was on TESOL’s
Publication Committee and most recently contributed as a writer and
editor to the China EFL Standards project. He loves skiing, juggling,
skijuggling, and laughing.
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To
join this session:
Go to the
JiTTJamming Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jittjamming/
and click on the
blue button: 
To read about other
EVO sessions: 
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