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
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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.
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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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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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Copyright@EVOnline Coordinating
Team. Created 11/16/2004, E Hanson-Smith & A Yeh
Some graphics copyright free from fuzzywebmaster.com
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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.
We recommend that you take no more than 2 sessions.
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Involving Senior Citizen
Volunteers in ITA Programs
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This
session is sponsored by the Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Interest Section of TESOL
Moderator:
Caroline Rosen
Target
Audience
ITA instructors and administrators interested in finding external
language support for their ITA participants.
Content
Description
This discussion group addresses a perennial concern among international
teaching assistant (ITA) instructors: how to get their ITAs to practice
speaking English outside of the classroom. One possible way of
addressing this issue is develop a senior citizen volunteer component
in order to work with those ITAs needing extra assistance in practicing
their spoken English. In addition to building ITAs' English
proficiency, volunteers can serve as a valuable resource for offering
cultural information to ITAs. The nuts and bolts of putting together
such a volunteer program will be discussed, including future guided
questions, chats, and brainstorming sessions.
Week by Week
Outline
Week I
The first week will be mostly a time to get to meet one another online
and to find out everyone’s interests and questions about participating
in the group. A general overview will be given on our senior citizen
volunteer program at the University of Minnesota.
Week II
The topic of discussion will focus on how to find and recruit senior
citizen volunteers in the community, and how to screen potential
volunteers.
Week III
This week will focus on setting up some of the basic components of a
volunteer program, and how to coordinate communication among the
volunteers, ITAs and ITA instructors.
Week IV
The discussion will involve specific examples of advertisements,
policies, orientation activities, training guides and feedback forms
for such a program.
Week V
We’ll talk about the benefits of this volunteer program, for both
senior citizens and ITAs, along with possible caveats that may arise.
Week VI
Online Participants will be encouraged to discuss ways in which such a
volunteer program may be implemented at their own institutions.
Communication
Media
Discussion postings
Caroline Rosen works at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, as an Educational Specialist. She teaches
pedagogical and spoken English skills to international teaching
assistants.
To join this EVO
session go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ITA_Senior_Volunteers/
and click on 
For further
information about this session, please contact the moderator directly:
Caroline Rosen, Ph.D. mrozl001@umn.edu
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