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Call for Proposals for the

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Electronic Village Online (EVO)

A Project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section

2007 Sessions
Deadline: September 15, 2006

Extended to September 30

The CALL Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) offers language teachers world-wide the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2007 Convention in Seattle, Washington, USA. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2007 convention-goers and those who can participate only virtually. Interest Sections, Caucuses, and other member groups of TESOL in particular are invited to sponsor sessions related to the convention.

The Electronic Village Online Sessions

For six weeks, 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 four-day convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible. Sessions may be on any topic in ESL/EFL and are free and open to all interested parties. Session leaders (moderators), who must be TESOL members, will receive hands-on training in online discussion management and the use of Yahoo! Groups, and they may be asked to help train future session leaders. Moderators need not have previous experience in online teaching. Sessions of EVO must be sponsored by an Interest Section, Caucus, or other member group of TESOL. For further information, please read: What is EVO?

Format of the Proposal

As part of this project, Interest Sections, Caucuses, and other member groups are asked to sponsor one or more sessions to allow pre-discussion of an issue or topic in conjunction with, for example, a TESOL 2007 Academic Session, colloquium, or discussion group. It is also possible to follow up on a topic from a previous TESOL convention, or any topic concerned with language teaching and the profession. In addition, we especially encourage proposals for hands-on workshop sessions involving materials development or the exploration of Web-based tools. To view descriptions of last year's sessions, please see 2006 Session Descriptions.

An archive of earlier sessions may be found at the TESOL EVO Portal.

If you would like to moderate an EVO session, please indicate your interest to one of the EVO Coordinating Team (addresses below), with a copy to your Interest Section or other member group leaders. Include the following information in your Proposal:

The title of your online session
A brief description of the content (an abstract)
The target audience and potential member group sponsor
A week-by-week outline of the proposed activities during the 6-week period (Your timeline should include a week for introductions and familiarization with the interface and a closing week for evaluations, completion of projects, and final discussions.)
The communication media expected to be used (discussion postings only, chat, Website, links related to your topic, etc.)
An indication of your willingness to complete moderator training and a commitment to holding the session in the timeframe indicated
A brief biographical statement (50 words) and link to your Website (if available)

If you need help connecting with an IS, Caucus, or other member group for sponsorship, please contact one of the Coordinating Team members (addresses below). The EVO Team is happy to help with your proposal and coordination with TESOL leaders.

Timeline

EVENT		DATES
1. Deadline for Proposals		September 30 , 2006
2. TRAINING for online session leaders		Monday, October 9 - Sunday, November 12, 2006 (5 weeks)
3. Participants REGISTER for Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006 Sessions		Monday, January 1 - Sunday, January 14, 2007 (2 weeks
4. EVO 2007 SESSIONS		Monday, January 15 - Sunday, February 25, 2007 (6 weeks)
5. 41st TESOL Annual Convention 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA: Electronic Village presentation; possible meetings of EVO session leaders and participants		Wednesday, March 21 - Saturday, March 24, 2007

Feel free to forward this Call for Proposals to other e-lists. Thank you for helping us spread the word.

To contact the EVO Coordinating Team:

Dafne González (Coordinator), Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela <dygonza-at- yahoo.com>
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, California State University, Sacramento/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento, CA <ehansonsmi-at-yahoo.com>
Chris Jones, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE <edtec2002-at-yahoo.com>
Aiden Yeh, Wen Zao Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung,Taiwan <aidenyeh-at-yahoo.com>
Buthaina al Othman, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait <buthaina_3-at-yahoo.com>
Nicolas Gromik, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan <gromik_tohoku-at-yahoo.com.au>
Susan Marandi, Al-Zahra University Teheran, Iran < susanmarandi-at-yahoo.com>
Christine Bauer-Ramazani (CALL IS liaison), St. Michael's College, Cochester, Vermont, USA <cbauer-ramazani-at-smcvt.edu>
Vance Stevens (TESOL PDC liaison), Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE <vance_stevens-at- yahoo.com>

The EVO sessions are free and voluntary. They are NOT a part of TESOL's Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program. For information about this program, please contact TESOL at edprograms@tesol.org or visit their Website at the TESOL Homepage and click on Online Education in the Professional Development tab.

Visit the EVO 2007 Training Group at EVO Moderators YG.

revised July 24, 2006 by D. G.