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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Establishing
and Maintaining
'Web Presence' Part 2: The Moodle
Various ways of
establishing a 'Web presence.' A Moodle will archive
resources and manage learning goals.
This is a continuation of a session that was given during the 2005 EVO
program. That session showed participants various ways of establishing
Web presence and set out a tutorial that can be used or taught to
others to ensure that members of an online community are capable of
taking on the responsibility for establishing and maintaining their own
web presence, thus freeing the facilitator to devote attentions to
other aspects of community building without having to neglect the
crucial one of creating a means by which community members can meet and
appreciate the skills and personalities of one another. This year's
session improves on the concept by improving on the Moodle that was
created for the 2005 session, with particular emphasis on how Moodles
can be set up and used to develop platforms for learning artifacts and
effectively implement online tutorials.
Content will be presented in this course by modeling community
formation and assissting participants in using a variety of Web tools
for community building collaboratively and hands-on.
For an updated description of the session go to
<http://webpresence.pbwiki.com>
Target
Audience
Teachers and trainers of teachers of foreign languages, including
ESL/EFL, wishing to learn more about setting up Web presences for
themselves and their students, and managing these through a course
management system, in this case Moodle. This session is not for
absolute beginners to an online community. The target will be those
who already interact in online communities and who would like to push
up to the next level of managing and archiving their interactions, and
those who facilitate such communities and want to inculcate a sense of
responsibility in participants regarding setting up and maintaining
their own online presences.
Weekly Content (may be revised further
during the session)
- Week I - Introductions
and familiarization with the interfaces
The Moodle will be introduced and
forums set up there for participants to get to know one another.
Participants will modify their profiles. Tutorials on:
* Blogger:
features and templates
* Buzznet,
LiveJournal,
and other blogs
- Week II
More interaction will be explored in the
Moodle. Tutorials on:
* Examination of a blog that verges on a Web site
* Introduction to HTML
- Week III
More interaction will be explored in the
Moodle. Tutorials on:
* Setting up at Geocities
and / or Tripod (depending
where you are in the world)
* More HTML
- Week IV
More interaction will be explored in the
Moodle. Tutorials on:
* Images on Web pages: photo manipulation, file
sizes, linkages
* Even more HTML
- Week V
More on Moodle. Discussion of:
* Managing larger projects
* Enhancements such as 'borrowing' javascripts and
attractive features from other Web pages
- Week VI - Closing week
for evaluations, completion of projects and final discussions
More interaction will be explored in the Moodle. Tutorials on:
* Showcasing our projects
* Session evaluation
For a complete syllabus of the session go to
<http://webpresence.pbwiki.com/NewImprovedSchedule>
Communication
Media (Check the address above for updates and URLs)
Archives in
the 2005 Web Presence Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webpresence/
The Blog - http://webpres2005.buzznet.com/
A
continuously updated syllabus - week-by-week play-by-play
A blog or wiki
promoting interaction within the group such as last year's http://webpres2005.buzznet.com
A course web page
linking the community
The existing Yahoo Group from last year, used now for file storage and
listserv http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webpresence
A blog or wiki
promoting interaction within the group such as last year's http://webpres2005.buzznet.com
Moodles to serve as
portal for the above elements:
- Building Web Presence Through Web-based Open Source Portals http://elderbob.com/Classes/course/view.php?id=11
- Establishing
and maintaining 'Web presence' http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=6
Regular and prearranged meetings will be held live at:
- http://www.tappedin.org
-
http://www.alado.net/webheads
- http://www.tinyurl.com/y3eh
About
the Moderators:
- Buthaina al-Othman has been an
active member of the community online, Webheads in Action, since it was
first
founded, by Vance Stevens, during his TESOL EVOnline 2001-2002 session,
officially started in Jan. 2002. Her work with student Web-based
projects will be featured in the Tricks and Tips EVO session.
- Robert (Elderbob) Brannan is blogger
and podcaster extraordinaire. His legendary blog of a recreated
cattle drive, On
the Trail, set new standards in oral and visual history. Host of
the San Antonio Webheads Fiesta, he recently dished up a lively session
on Web 2.0 at WorldBridges.
- Vance Stevens, Head Webhead, is
founder of the CALL-IS and of the Webheads. A prolific author and
presenter in the field of CALL, he presides at the WiA weekly chat-fest
(noon GMT at Tapped In) and at
other online events, such as the WiA Online Convergence virtual
conference. His full bio and particulars are to be found at About Vance.
To join this session:
Go to the Web Presence Moodle: OpenSource
for Educators
Register and login.
To read about other EVO sessions: 
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