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
-
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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Tips
and Tricks for the Successful
Online Teaching Environment
Presented by teachers from StudyCom
English for Internet
Moderator:
Guest Speakers:
Buthaina
Al
Othman, Kuwait
Deena L. Fergurson, Italy
Malcolm James, UK
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In this
six-week workshop, participants will discuss and learn collaboratively
some of the approaches and techniques that can lead to effective online
environment. Examples of successful or unsuccessful, synchronous and
asynchronous online lessons will be demonstrated and discussed in
details focusing on what worked and what didn’t work in terms of the
design, use of a certain Internet communication technology, and
techniques to engage the participants to increase online
participation. The different modalities between purely
online and 'blended' on/offline classes will be discussed.
Target
Audience
ESL/EFL teachers who are beginning to teach synchronously online or
teachers who are currently using a two-prong (synchronous and
asynchronous) approach and want to discuss best practices and
what works and doesn’t work in the virtual classroom.
Weekly Content
- Week I – Introductions
Participants will meet moderators and each
other, complete an
exploratory survey, and discuss needs and expectations, and their
own teaching online teaching ideas.
- Week II – Videotexting
(aka “Karaoke-style” Listening/Reading Practice)
David Winet will explain why
"VideoTexting" (scrolling, highlighted text-to-speech) is useful for
learners, and will demonstrate how teachers can create a VideoText for
their online students.
- Week III - What works
and doesn’t work when teaching online
Deena Fergurson will lead a discussion on
this topic, providing tips and suggestions, recommendations based on
her personal teaching online.
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- Week IV - How to
teach grammar in context online
Mal James will lead a discussion on
how to teach grammar in context online. He will demonstrate an online
lesson showing how he does it using sites with reading articles,
stories, etc.
- Week V - Teaching
and learning academic writing and practicing oral skill through
collaborative Web-based projects
Buthaina al-Othman will lead a discussion on how to plan, design and
conduct an online teacher-student collaborative Web-project to teach
academic writing and to improve listening and oral skills of ESL/EFL
learners online, using blogging, Webcasting and podcasting. Examples of
such projects will be demonstrated and discussed with guest speakers
(TBA), during a live and online webcast at WorldBridges LiveWire.
- Week VI - Wrap-Up
Wrap-up discussion. Final conclusions about best practices, tricks and
tips in the process of planning and creating effective ESL/EFL teaching
and learning online environment. Where to go from here. Session
evaluation.
Communication
Media:
Tips and Tricks
Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TipsTricks
Live synchronous
presentations may require microphone and earphones or headset
Alado - http://www.alado.net/evo
or Learning Times http://www.learningtimes.org
for synchronous voice chats
ReadPlease2003
(PC) - http://www.readplease.com/
or Mac's >System
Preferences >Speech
Camstudio (PC) - http://www.brothersoft.com/Multimedia_Graphics_Screen_Capture_CamStudio_3944.html
or Screen Movie
Recorder (Mac)
- http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/screenmovierecorder.html
Microsoft Movie
Maker (PC) or iMovie
(Mac)
Windows Media
Player, RealPlayer, or Quicktime
About
the Moderators:
- David Winet got started teaching English when he
was 15 in Switzerland and a neighbor hired him to teach her
elementary school son. That was a complete disaster! However, since
then he has learned a few tricks and has taught ESL for many years.
Dave created StudyCom English for
Internet, a free online school and research project where real
teachers can connect with real students to study and use English.
Buthaina Al-Othman
teaches EFL and ESP in the Faculty of Science, at Kuwait
University. She has been using a blended teaching and learning
approach, in her ESP/English for Science and EFL Remedial classes
since she started her teaching career in Spring 2001. She has a
Master's degree in Teaching English for Speakers of Other
Languages, (TESOL) from the State University of New York, (SUNY),
Albany.
Deena Lynn Furgerson began
teaching EFL about fifteen years in Italy in high schools and at
a local university. She got interested in computers as a teaching
aide and contacted StudyCom English for Internet in 2002 and has
been teaching English there since.
Malcolm James was born
in Birmingham 57 years ago After the first stage of his teaching
certificate, he was offered a post teaching adults with learning
difficulties. He was very apprehensive at first but
thoroughly enjoyed it. He became interested in teaching English,
eventually taking the CELTA course in 2004 and joined StudyCom at that
time.
To
join this session:
Go to the Tips and
Tricks Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TipsTricks
and click on the
blue button: 
To read about other
EVO sessions: 
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