EVO 2008 Call for Participation wiki - For six weeks (Jan 14-Feb 24), partic...

For six weeks , participants can engage with ESOL experts 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 land-based TESOL convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas and themes of the convention or of professional interest in general. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate.

Sessions are organized by TESOL's CALL Interest Section and run wholly by volunteers who have donated their time to serve the profession.

Sessions 2008

Click below to link to session complete descriptions. Join a session by following the link to the Yahoo Group in each description.

----> We strongly recommend that you sign up for no more than two sessions.

Sessions	Moderator(s)	Brief Description
Advanced Tips & Tricks for Successful Online Teaching and Learning	-Dave Winet and team	Participants will discuss and practice collaboratively some of the more advanced approaches and techniques that lead to effective online environment.
Becoming a Webhead	-Dafne Gonzalez -Teresa Almeida d'Eça	This is a hands-on workshop where participants explore Web 2.0 tools and share the best ways of using them in their teaching practices. We are part of the Webheads in Action virtual Community of Practice.
Blogging For Educators	Carla Arena and team	Participants will experiment with creating and enhancing blogs. They will also explore blog comment management, template personalization, tagging (labeling) and really simple syndication (RSS).
Effective Lesson Planning	-Leticia Esteves -Rubena St. Louis	Teachers will discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of lesson planning and will be designing their lesson plans taking into consideration their students' needs and their own individual teaching context.
EVO Video 2008: ESL/EFL Video Slide Shows and Vlogging	Ryan Detwiler and team	This session is for teachers interested in learning how to use student-produced video slide shows and vlogs to enhance their classes.
Exploring the Big Apple,Byte by Byte	Sang Kim and team	Using New York’s cultural centers, historic events, and architecturally unique buildings, teachers will develop virtual visits to venues in New York City that will introduce learners to New York and engage them in intensive research on the Internet.
Getting Started with Drama in Your Classroom	Gary Carkin and team	This Workshop focuses on drama activities for teachers who are interested in using drama-based techniques to teach English, but who have had little training or experience in the field of drama.
Getting the Most out of Web 2.0 for ESP	Buthaina Al-Othman and team	This session is focused on the understanding and practical application of the new technologies and social software known as Web 2.0 to create new cultures of learning and teaching in ESP courses.
Integrating Technology into Adult ESL	Denise Guckert-von Ehren	Participants will: (a) Assess technology resources, (b)Review research, strategies and best practices for adult ESL technology integration, (c) Review online lesson plans that integrate language and technology learning, (d) Create a lesson plan or class project integrating technology.
I Got Rhythm: Music in the Classroom	-Lee Baber -Robert Brannan	It is our intent to explore ways that music can be made available in classroom situations. The hosts, though not music theorists, can offer a variety of resources and information to engage students
Research on Web 2.0 applications to English Language Learning	Jose M.Romero	This session is directed to any English teacher who is interested in Research in the field of English Language Teaching and Learning, and to researchers who are studying the Web 2.0 phenomena.
Social Media in ELT	Barbara Dieu and team	This session offers practical guidance on using a set of freely available services and software applications. It also aims to develop a critically reflected understanding of these technologies, focusing on their use and implications in language teaching.
Teaching with PowerPoint	-Kent Matsueda -Roger Drury and team	Our goal is to show how PPT can be used by both teachers and students. Teachers learn how to use it effectively for their own teaching, e.g. to support a lesson, as well as a tool for collaborative student projects.

Timeline

EVO Team

Dafne González (Coordinator) Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela dygonza-at-yahoo.com	Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (Past coordinator) California State University, Sacramento, CA ehansonsmi-at-yahoo.com	Aiden Yeh (CALL-IS liaison) Wen Zao Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung,Taiwan aidenyeh-at-yahoo.com	Vance Stevens (TESOL PDC liaison) Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE vance_stevens-at- yahoo.com
Chris Jones Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE edtec2002-at-yahoo.com	Paula Emmert Brussels, Belgium emmert4-at-yahoo.com	Susan Marandi Al-Zahra University Teheran, Iran susanmarandi-at-yahoo.com	Buthaina al Othman Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait buthaina_3-at-yahoo.com
Carla Arena Casa Thomas Jefferson Binational Center Brasilia-DF, Brazil carlaarena-at-gmail.com	Moira Hunter ESIEE Grande Ecole d'Ingenieurs Paris, France moira_hunter2005-at-yahoo.com	Jane Petring Collège Édouard-Montpetit Longueuil, Quebec, Canada want2no7-at-yahoo.ca	Christine Bauer-Ramazani St. Michael's College, Cochester,Vermont, USA cbauer-ramazani-at-smcvt.edu

TESOL Convention

For information about the TESOL 2008 Convention Worlds of TESOL: Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Creativity, April 2 - 5, 2008, visit the TESOL site and link to > Professional Development > Conferences & Events

Other TESOL PD Programs

To find out more about the TESOL's Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program (the foundation course begins January 14), go to TESOL and click on >EDUCATION and then > ONLINE EDUCATION, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org

(EVO is not a part of the OTCP)

TESOL CALL-IS

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 2007 Convention in New York. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2008 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.