2011
Electronic
Village
Online (EVO)
A Project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section
January 10 - February 13, 2011
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/Call_for_Participation2011
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The Electronic Village Online Sessions
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For five weeks in January-February, participants and ESOL experts can engage in collaborative, online discussion 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 land-based convention a nd will allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible.
Sessions
are free and open to anyone
around
the globe. Bring your colleagues!
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----> We strongly recommend that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
| Sessions | Moderators | Brief Description |
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Becoming
a
Webhead
2011 Sponsor: CALL-IS |
Dafne
González Teresa Almeida d'Eça, Jose Antônio Da Silva Mbarek Akaddar Helen Davies Fernanda Rodrígues Sharon Betts Larissa Olesova Dennis Oliver |
Webheads
in
Action is a long-standing community of practice of language
teachers worldwide, coordinated by Vance Stevens. In the Becoming a
Webhead workshop, which is an introduction to Webheads in
Action,
we explore Web communication
tools and share the best ways of
using them
in our teaching practices, engage with students in
virtual
classes, collaborate in projects, andparticipate
in
conferences
as audience
and presenters. This collaboration takes place online, as we are all
geographically apart. Would
you like to join us? |
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Re-playing
Process
Drama Sponsors: TESOL Drama E-Group SPLIS (Speech, Pronunication, Listening Interest Section) |
Gary
Carkin Shin-Mei Kao Susan Hillyard Fernanda Molla Nigel Caplan Holly Dilatush George Plautz Leslie Sapp |
TESOL-Drama
began
looking at process drama in the 2010 workshop. This year, we will
approach process drama from the more practical perspective of process
drama activities and conventions, and then move to the discussion of
how these may be utilized within different contexts. The workshop will thoroughly examine the techniques and strategies used in forming a process drama, explaining what they are and how they may be implemented, in what contexts they might be used, and through what roles the emerging drama might best be expressed. We will call upon workshop participants to contribute examples of techniques and strategies that they have found successful and the contexts to which they were applied. Finally, we will solicit examples of lesson plans that illustrate the use of the strategies in an ongoing fashion and how they were, or could be, utilized to fashion a complete process drama. |
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Digital
Storytelling Sponsor: CALL-IS |
Carla
Arena Cheryl Oakes Dennis Oliver Erika Cruvinel Daniela Munca Kathy Epps Nina Lyulkun Saša Sirk |
How
can
adding stories to your in-class and online activities raise student
interest? How can you help learners develop 21st century multiliteracy
skills through active learning enhanced by those stories? In this five-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, participants will be introduced to various online tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. They will explore how images, music, slideshows and web tools can be used in educational settings for storytelling. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the chance to develop a digital storytelling plan to promote students' creativity, engagement and learning through the incorporation of digital production into their lesson plans. |
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PLEs
and
PLNs
for Lifelong Learning Competencies Sponsor: TESOL ITALY |
Susan
Burg Daniela Cuccurullo Letizia Cinganotto Sandra Rogers Sandy Wagner |
In
recent
years there has been a new array of learning management systems
(LMS). Tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking have
created a significant shift in the educational experience. Personal
Learning Environments (PLEs) enable learners to have greater control
over their own learning experience. This session will take a look at
the current situation by clarifying the concepts of personal learning
environments and networks (PLNs). Participants will learn by
doing, creating their own Personal Learning Environment and adding
tools relevant to their individual needs as the 5-week session evolves.
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Creating
Vocabulary
Activities Hands-on workshops and discussions Sponsor: Materials Writers IS |
John
Allan Stephen Roney |
This session will introduce instructors to simple tools and techniques used by their educational-technology-savvy peers to produce professional, functional and recyclable resources for teaching vocabulary. Each of these exercises has been used extensively in classes across the globe. Participants will be given the opportunity to share their experience with these tools. This collaboration takes place online. Would you like to join us? |
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Multiliteracies
for
Social
Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments Sponsor: CALL IS |
Vance
Stevens
Dennis Oliver Jennifer Verschoor Nelba Quintana |
Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. These strategies include managing, processing, and interpreting a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. This course seeks to heighten awareness of these considerations, and to enable participants to explore ways of dealing with them in professional and interpersonal development as well as work with students. |
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VILLAGE
Language Learning and Community Building in Second Life Sponsor: CALL IS |
Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay [Kalyan Horatio] Dennis Newson [Osnacnatab Nesterov] Heike Philp [Gwen Gwasi] Mary Pinto [Mary Roussell] Nahir Aparicio M [Nahiram Vaniva] |
VILLAGE is the name of
the EVO
Session Language
Learning and Community Building in Second Life
and is a 5
week workshop on how to use virtual worlds for language teaching and
learning. (VILLAGE is an acronym for Virtual Language Learning and
Group Experience). Our activities will take place in the virtual world of Second Life, which is free to join. |
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Mentoring
TESOL Sponsoring: Teachers for Social Responsibility IS (SR IS) |
Valerie
Jakar Shafali Ray Marina Gonzalez Eleanor Adika |
This
series
of sessions on mentoring skills such as coaching,
counseling, consulting, and peer dialoguing is intended for
those
teachers of English as an Additional Language (in countries of native
English speakers and in non English speaking environments)
interested in mentoring new or struggling ESOL teachers.
Through
discussion, case studies, and role play we will share our ideas and
hone our skills. Guest experts will guide discussion as we identify and
share our own mentoring strengths and possibilities. Towards the end of
the series, we will begin work on creating an ongoing TESOL
mentor-support community, encouraging others to join us in
this
important aspect of all teachers' lives. |
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Podcasts
for the
EFL/ESL
Classroom Sponsor: CALL IS |
Evelyn
Izquierdo Miguel Mendoza José Rodríguez |
This EVO 2011 workshop aims at providing basic proficiency related to the production and publishing of digital media files (podcasts) and its implementation in the language classroom to enhance communication in speaking and listening skills. |
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Reflection
and
Practice:
Virtual Education Sponsor: CALL IS |
Malcolm
Peñaranda Marcela Jaramillo |
This session intends to foster a reflection process on the integration of virtual and physical classrooms through the use of different technological tools and strategies that will give participants some ideas on how to deal with such integration. |
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