Software and Consulting for Educational Technology

Dr Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, professor emeritus, California State University, Sacramento

ESL Resources and Information teacher training workshops in your own lab information and resources in CALL for ESL software design and quality assurance online groups and courses tailored to your setting World time zones for Online Chat Books, Articles and Conference Presentations A Brief History of CALL: Theory and Research. My talk at CALL IS's 25th Anniversary Colloquium, Denver TESOL Convention, 26 March 2009. Original paper from the CATESOL Journal. Check out my talk at TESOL 2008, NYC, The Effect of Technology on SLA (and vice versa). Virtual=Real - My ed tech blog: information, resources, teaching tips for using technology See the EVO Video archive for continuously updated info and tools and resources for video online. Links to my work: CALL Environments: Research Practice and Critical Issues, 2nd edition, ed. by Joy Egbert and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, is an extensive compendium of the latest in tools, activities, and pedagogy. Constructing the Paragraph is online and free for your use. It presents students with exercises and tutorials in academic writing. The Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive is based on the classic adult learner's dictionary. Now in a new addition with digital artwork and video. Live Action English Interactive: Total Physical Response on the Computer Live Action Spanish interactive: Total Physical Response on the Computer Visit the Command Performance publisher's Website for books, materials,free teachers guide, etc., and a video demo of a whole chapter from LAEI. Links to favorite professional associations: CATESOL  & TELL-IG TESOL - Check out their online resources CALL-IS's Electronic Village Online (CfP in August/Sept.) Be sure to join the CALL-IS Diigo group and social bookmarking site. Great resources abound!  OTAN - Outreach and Technical Assistance Network MERLOT - Multimedia  Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching and their home in Second Life

CONFERENCES & EVENTS The Electronic Village Online begins a new season every Jan-Feb. Don't miss these sessions, brought to you by TESOL's CALL Interest Section.     Call for Proposals Sept. 2011 New sessions begin Jan-Feb 2012 Academic Writing YG offers online lessons in Contructing the Paragraph by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith. Teachers can bring their students to use materials; independent students are welcome, too. Glenda Hanson has mounted the Constructing the Paragraph exercises at her Website also. My developmental writing students have experienced repeated failures. Now I have to find a way to motivate them to come to this class so that I can work with them....The format and exercises make the writing process more manageable both for teaching and learning. I am grateful. -- Patricia Brooks, Univ of Houston (e-mail 12 April 2007) Learning with Computers and the LwC wiki. regularly begins a new set of weekly tasks. Join the YG, follow the schedule, perform the tasks, learn new computer skills with friends from around the world. New page in tools and resources:  Quicksteps to Writing a Short Story EVO Video 2010 - Mike Marzio, Ryan Detwiler, Branka Marceta, Jennifer Lebedev, did a great job  with their EVO session, and you can still access resources from My Video Classroom, an exploration of "online treasure troves of multi-media content created for EFL/ESL teachers by fellow educators who share a passion for teaching, language learning, and video." See also the archives of past EVO Video sessions.

Author of works for the technology- using teacher

Moderator of interactive groups and courses online

Creator of software for CALL

Contact me for online and f2f consulting

Virtual office at Tapped In (log in and type /enter Comp_for_Ed)

Tools and resources for the TELL educator

Virtual=Real my technology blog CALL IS Virtual Software List at Diigo

Meet the Webheads in Action, a Community of Practice for ESL/EFL  teachers.

Use free videos and exercises at Real-English.com. See the new RE FaceBook page for discussion.

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Visit my blog, Virtual=Real, on useful technology for teaching languages. Visit the EVO Video wiki for resources for teaching with video. Visit the CALL IS VIrtual Software List at Diigo

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