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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
2008 Convention in New York, USA. The intended audience for this
project includes both TESOL 2008 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
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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?
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Join our Moderator team!
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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 2008 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
2007 Session
Descriptions.
An archive of earlier sessions may be found at the
TESOL EVO Portal.
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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: |
Format
of the Proposal
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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
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
(Past coordinator),
California State University,Sacramento/Command
Performance Language Institute, 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
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Christine Bauer-Ramazani
St. Michael's College,
Cochester,
Vermont, USA
cbauer-ramazani-at-smcvt.edu |
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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
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Visit the EVO 2008
Training Group at
EVO Moderators YG.
revised July 5, 2007 by D. G.
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