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 39th Annual TESOL Convention


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1. Participants REGISTER for Electronic
  Village Online (EVO) 2005 Sessions: 
    Monday, January 3 -
    Sunday, January 16, 2005 [2 weeks]

2. EVO 2005 SESSIONS:
     Monday,  January 17 -
     Sunday, February 27, 2005 [6 weeks]

3. TESOL Convention 2005, San Antonio, TX: Wednesday, March 30 - Saturday, April 3, 2005; possible meetings of EVO session leaders and participants. An Internet Fair session will be held at the CALL IS Electronic Village, TBA.





TO CONTACT THE EVO COORDINATING TEAM

(In your mailer, insert @yahoo.com after any address)

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Computers for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento, CA
<ehansonsmi at yahoo.com>

Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
<vance_stevens at yahoo.com>

Dafne González, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza at yahoo.com>

Chris Jones, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ
<edtec2002 at yahoo.com>

María Jordano de la Torre, University of Castilla la Mancha, Toledo, Spain
<maria_jordano at yahoo.es>

Aiden Yeh, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Taiwan
<aidenyeh at yahoo.com>





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To find out more about TESOL's Online Education Programs, go to TESOL and click on the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT tab, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org.





    The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL association offers ISs and Caucuses the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2005 Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2005 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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THE EV ONLINE SESSIONS

    For six weeks, participants and ESOL experts can engage in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the four-day convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate.


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      Sign up for this session at the site below.

REGISTRATION BEGINS JANUARY 3, 2005.

 We recommend that you take no more than 2 sessions.

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Becoming a Webhead (BaW)

A hands-on workshop on how to use Web communication tools for language teaching and learning.

This session is sponsored by the Computer-Assisted Language Learning
 Interest Section of TESOL.


Moderators:  Dafne González, Venezuela,  and Teresa Almeida d'Eça, Portugal

Target Audience
ESL/EFL teachers interested in using communication tools in their teaching, be it exclusively online or blended into face-to-face teaching. Having an e-mail account, familiarity with word processors and Internet access are all that's required.

Content Description
Webheads in Action is a three- year-old community of practice of language teachers worldwide, coordinated by Vance Stevens. We explore Web communication tools and share the best ways of using them in our teaching practices, engage with students in virtual classes, collaborate on projects, and participate in conferences as audience and presenters. This collaboration takes place online, as we are all geographically apart. Would you like to become one of us?

In the course of the 6 weeks, participants will learn collaboratively
and hands on to:
  • use various synchronous and asynchronous web tools for learning and teaching EFL/ESL,
  • interact through e-mail, text chat, voice chat, voice e-mail, and distribution lists, among others,
  • reflect on ways of applying those tools to their teaching, either online or face to face, and,
  • create web pages and blogs, online worksheets, surveys, interactive exercises and rubrics related to their own contexts.
Weekly chats will be held to discuss content and pre-defined topics, build rapport and create a sense of community. Much of the content derived from the discussions will be made available through web pages created during the six weeks, and will be kept online for future reference.

Towards the end of the session participants will be invited to join the Webheads in Action (WiA) community of practice.


Week by Week Outline

Week I
Getting acquainted with Yahoo Groups. Introductions. Exploratory Survey. Participants will get acquainted with the Yahoo Groups platform, introduce themselves to the group and complete a survey about their experience in the use of Web tools. At the end of the week, and as an introduction to week 2, we will take a tour of Tapped In.
Guest presenter: TBA

Week II
Text and voice synchronous communication tools: Tapped In,
Yahoo Messenger and MSN.
Participants will have the opportunity to chat with other Webheads through different synchronous media such as Tapped In, Yahoo Messenger and MSN. During these chats, they will learn how to use the many powerful features of each of these environments and also create their own virtual office at Tapped In, where they can later meet with students and colleagues. Webcam-enhanced chat may be introduced using Yahoo Messenger. It will also be a good time to introduce a volunteer system for "peer help": participants holding online hours for other participants.
Guest presenter: TBA

Week III
Building an online presence: Blogs and Web pages.
Participants will use different web blog providers (Blogger, Bravenet, Tabulas) and Webpage hosts (GeoCities, Tripod, Bravepages) to create their own blogs and Web pages, and use different image software to enhance them. Basic HTML will be introduced if participants show an interest.
Guest presenters: TBA

Week IV
Virtual classrooms and voice email.
Participants will explore the Alado and Elluminate virtual classrooms, as well as user-friendly tools for sending voice messages (HandyBits and Wimba).
Guest presenters: TBA

Week V
Developing class materials: online surveys and worksheets, and interactive exercise creators.
Participants will have the opportunity to create materials for their classes using different online exercise creators.
Guest presenters: TBA

Week VI
Blended learning. Wrap-up: conclusions and evaluation. Graduating as a Webhead in Action.
After a session on "blended learning," participants will share reflections and arrive at the main conclusions about these online Web communication tools and their role in language learning. To wrap-up these six weeks, there will be a final chat during which participants will graduate as "Webheads in Action".
Guest presenters: TBA

Recommended readings will be included when necessary.

Communication Media
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Messenger http://messenger.yahoo.com/
MSN http://msnmessenger-download.com/
Tapped In http://www.tappedin.org/new
Alado http://www.alado.net
Learning Times http://www.learningtimes.net
HandyBits (voice mail) http://www.handybits.com
Wimba Voice mail http://www.wimba.com/tools/vmail/index.php

Associate Professor of EFL/ESP at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, Dafne González serves on TESOL's Technology Advisory Commitee and Electronic Village Online Cordination team, and on the Editorial board of
ESL MiniConference Online Magazine.

Teresa Almeida d'Eça  teaches EFL in a middle school near Lisbon, Portugal, and is archivist for the Webheads, a community of practice for
language teachers using innovative technology. She is Chair
of TESOL's Technology Advisory Committee.




To join this group, beginning January 3, 2005, please go to

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baw2005

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If further information is needed, contact the moderators at
Dafne Gonzalez dygonza at yahoo.com
Teresa Almeida d'Eça tmvaz at mail.telepac.pt
(please insert the appropriate address with @ in your mailer)



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