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The 42nd TESOL Annual Convention &
Exhibit
Electronic Village,
Hilton, Gramercy A
New York, New York
Thursday, and
Friday, April 3 and 4, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
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Organizers:
Christine Bauer-Ramazani
& Justin Shewell
For the Web Casts of 4 Sessions from the EV Fair
Classics 2008, see
the links below. To participate, please review the
Web Cast Participation Guide
<http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/2008/EV-Fair-Classics/webcast_guide08.htm>
Thursday,
April 3, 2008, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
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Presenter(s)
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Title / URL
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Brief description |
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MAC 1 |
Rick Rosenberg
Beverly Bickel
Joan Shin |
The
E-Teacher Program at 4 years: Strategies for Fostering
Communities of Practice
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/eteacher.htm
The
presentation will overview successful practices of the
E-Teacher online teacher training program, including
face-to-face and online mentoring, support with multimedia,
and project work.
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MAC 2 |
Christina Cavage |
Podcasting
and the Culture Box
http://web.mac.com/eslteach1/Site/podcast/podcast.html
This presentation will highlight how a podcast site was
created to answer students' questions about American Culture.
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MAC 3 |
Mark
Offner |
How to
Use the Internet for Conversation Practice
http://aitech.ac.jp/~offner/homeindex.htm
A presentation of ways to use the Internet for conversation
practice for pre-intermediate to advanced students
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MAC 4 |
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MAC 5 |
Dafne
Gonzalez
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
Aiden Yeh
Carla Arena
Moira Hunter
Buthaina al-Othman
Paula Emmert
Dave Winet
Gary Carkin |
The
Electronic Village Online 2008 Sessions
http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/
For six
weeks, participants of the annual EVO engage with ESOL experts
in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on
virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. This
Fair presentation offers a sampling of EVO offerings in
Jan-Feb 2008, to include ways to access resources, and invites
Fair-goers to think about joining or presenting in next year's
EVO.
Note: This session was webcast
from the Electronic Village 2:00-2:25 pm US EDT in the
Webheads Virtual Office at LearningTimes.org. To access the
archived session, click
here (note: You need to be registered with
LearningTimes (free).
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MAC 6 |
Dafne
Gonzalez
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
Aiden Yeh
Carla Arena
Moira Hunter
Buthaina al-Othman
Paula Emmert
Dave Winet
Gary Carkin |
The
Electronic Village Online 2008 Sessions
http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/
For six
weeks, participants of the annual EVO engage with ESOL experts
in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on
virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. This
Fair presentation offers a sampling of EVO offerings in
Jan-Feb 2008, to include ways to access resources, and invites
Fair-goers to think about joining or presenting in next year's
EVO.
Note: This session was webcast
from the Electronic Village 2:00-2:25 pm US EDT in the
Webheads Virtual Office at LearningTimes.org. To access the
archived session, click
here (note: You need to be registered with
LearningTimes (free).
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MAC 7 |
Ye-Kyoung
Kim |
Electronic
Villages
around the
Internet: Search Engines Referring to the Netizens’ Linguistic
Preferences and Socio-cultural References
www.google.com;
www.naver.com
This presentation examines, explains, and demonstrates how the
netizens around the world develop, use, and participate in the
Internet community based on and related to their linguistic,
cultural, and class-based preferences. The session will
provide TESOLers with references to integrative instructional
methodology using the Internet technology.
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MAC 8 |
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MAC 9 |
Tim
VanSlyke |
From the classroom to the lab and back again: a model for technology
integration for lower-level ESL learners
http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/faculty/vanslyt/class2lab/index.htm
This presentation demonstrates a model for integrating
technology into low-level ESL classrooms.
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MAC 10 |
Brenda Murphy
Ashley Hastings |
Seven ways
to use Blackboard discussion boards
http://globallanguage.info/tesol2008/classics
We’ll
demonstrate some of the varied ways we’ve found to
utilize
the Discussion Board feature during the eight years we’ve used
Blackboard’s course delivery system.
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PC 1 |
Andy Bowman |
tDictionary
http://circalab.com/tDictionary.html
The presenter will demonstrate tDictionary, a handy,
web-based mini-dictionary. tDictionary can be used on PC and
is useful for looking up words while working with any Windows
application.
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PC 2 |
Phil
Hubbard |
An Invitation to CALL: A Mini-Course for CALL
Teacher Education
http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/callcourse/
This presentation reviews the website for a short survey
course in CALL offered as an optional supplement to an ESL
methods class; materials are open and available for others to
use.
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PC 3 |
Barry
Bakin |
Students "Excel" at Small Research Projects and PowerPoint
Presentations
http://esl.adultinstruction.org/ResearchProject.htm
Students
give oral presentations to their classmates about the results
of a real research project they've completed. |
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PC 4 |
Isaiah
WonHo Yoo
Sogang University (in Seoul, Korea)
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Using MIT
OpenCourseWare (OCW) in EFL Settings
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/index.htm
EFL
teachers who need to design university-level advanced classes
can download the syllabi and class handouts of the courses
offered by English Language Studies at MIT from MIT
OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), super archives for teachers that
contain course materials used in almost all MIT's
undergraduate and graduate subjects.
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PC 5 |
Anna
Marie Robinson |
Atlantic Waves: An interactive Web Voyage
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/gsl520_online/students/4AtlanticWaves_files/frame.htm
All aboard. Experience an interactive WEB VOYAGE to a world
of language learning and cultural awareness. This
multi-skills based lesson plan is part of the
Multimedia CALL Lessons and is designed to tap into the
curious nature of adventurous learners. |
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PC 6 |
William
Boletta |
Teaching
Business English Online
(CANCELLED BY PRESENTER)
An online course in Business English with model conversations,
pronunciation and listening exercises, drills on key phrases,
and hints for effective cross-cultural communication |
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PC 7 |
Jim Bame |
Enhancing
Instructional Communication with Nicenet.org
http://nicenet.org
The
presenter will demonstrate how to set up a site, the various
uses of nicenet for graduate courses, pre-university classes
and adult education classes, and discuss its advantages and
disadvantages.
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PC 8 |
Tommy
McDonnell
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Using
Track Changes with Microsoft Word to tutor Writing Students
This
demonstration shows how Microsoft Word’s Track Changes can be
used to create a dialogue to tutor and edit students’ papers.
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PC 9 |
Silvio
Avendano
(UMBC, Centro Cultural Salvadoreno Americano)
Adriana Val, UMBC |
EFL Teachers
Integrating Internet Technology
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~savend1/gl/
http://bb6.umbc.edu
Presenters will
use visual aids and handouts to illustrate projects that EFL
teachers participating in an online course have developed in
their home countries. |
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PC 10 |
Teresa Almeida d'Eca |
CALL Lessons
2005-2007
http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/papers/tesol2008/efc08-callblog.htm
Talking about a EUN international award winning curricular
blog for 5th-6th graders to learn EFL with a world
audience through different Web 2.0 tools and diversified
activities
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Friday,
April 4, 2008, 2:00-3:00 p.m. |
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Station |
Presenter(s)
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Title / URL
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Brief description |
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MAC 1 |
Susan Gaer
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Email Projects
http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm
This site archives and
develops collaborative projects for the Internet. |
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MAC 2 |
Timothy R.
Healy
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Teaching
ESL writing through website publishing
(CANCELLED BY PRESENTER)
The purpose of this presentation is to display self-published
websites featuring student texts and photographs, to describe
the processes and functions of their creation that promote
learning, and to suggest meaningful purposes for their use.
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MAC 3 |
Leslie
Opp-Beckman |
A professional development
videoconferencing series for EFL educators in Thailand
http://thaiuo.uoregon.edu/
Faculty and staff from
University of Oregon's American English Institute and Media
Services are proud to work in partnership with the Public
Affairs Office of the US Embassy in Bangkok, the Royal Thai
Distance Learning Foundation, the Thai Ministry of Education,
colleagues at Chulalongkorn University, and colleagues from
ThaiTESOL on this innovative and exciting project. |
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MAC 4 |
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MAC 5 |
Dafne
Gonzalez
Aiden Yeh
Carla Arena
Moira Hunter
Teresa Almeida d'Eça |
The
Electronic Village Online 2008 Sessions
http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/
For six weeks, participants of the annual EVO engage with ESOL
experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions or
hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly
benefit. This Fair presentation offers a sampling of EVO
offerings in Jan-Feb 2008, to include ways to access
resources, and invites Fair-goers to think about joining or
presenting in next year's EVO.
Note: This session was webcast
from the Electronic Village 2:30-2:55 pm US EDT in the
Webheads Virtual Office at LearningTimes.org.
To access the archived session, click
here
(note: You need to be registered with LearningTimes (free).
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MAC 6 |
Dafne
Gonzalez
Aiden Yeh
Carla Arena
Moira Hunter
Teresa Almeida d'Eça |
The
Electronic Village Online 2008 Sessions
http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com/
For six weeks, participants of the annual EVO engage
with ESOL experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions
or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly
benefit. This Fair presentation offers a sampling of EVO
offerings in Jan-Feb 2008, to include ways to access
resources, and invites Fair-goers to think about joining or
presenting in next year's EVO. |
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MAC 7 |
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MAC 8 |
Tom Leverett |
Weblog portfolios in an intensive English program
http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/wp.html
This presentation will show how higher-level writing students
can present work from essays to research papers and abstracts,
formatted and linked, on their own weblogs. |
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MAC 9 |
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MAC 10 |
Lance Askildson
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Hyperglossing Text and Multimedia: Engaging L2 Learners in
Reading via Technology
http://askildson.com/reading1a.html
This presentation introduces the pedagogical applications of
hyperglossing to improve L2 reading engagement and
development.
(CANCELLED
BY PRESENTER) |
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PC 1 |
Lyra Riabov |
Technology for ESL Speaking and Culture Studies Activities and
Projects
http://acadweb.snhu.edu/riabov_lyra/TESOL%202008%20EV%20Fairs%20Classics.htm
This presentation demonstrates how Professor Lyra Riabov
Web-based Blackboard™, her class website, and MS
Power Point make student learning more effective in Advanced
ESL Oral Communication and Comparative Culture Study classes
at the Southern New Hampshire University, the Institute for
Language Education.
Authoring materials used: Microsoft FrontPage 2000, 2003,
PowerPoint, MS Word, Blackboard |
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PC 2 |
Jacqueline
Benevento
Karen Jogan
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Organizing
and Sharing Web Resources with Your Class
A
web resource activity to share with peers web resources they
had found, with their comments about them
http://faculty.albright.edu/kjogan/links.htm |
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PC 3 |
David Winet |
Text to
Speech for ESL Learners
http://www.neurospeech.com
Learn how text-to-speech can help your students improve their
listening, reading, vocabulary and pronunciation skills. |
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PC 4 |
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PC 5 |
Silvio
Avendano
(UMBC, Centro Cultural Salvadoreno Americano)
Adriana Val, UMBC |
Creating Spaces for Collaboration through the Internet
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~savend1/gl/
Creative collaborations between teachers, government
agencies, Ministries of Education, universities, and
school-based supervisors are making possible the development
and delivery of online courses for teachers from diverse
regions of the world. Topics to be addressed in this session
include lessons learned and exemplary stories about how
collaborations supported students, instructors and
administrators. Challenges and issues of collaboration across
distance, cultures, and variable technologies will be shared
along with suggested approaches. Presenters will share
curriculum materials, course design parameters, project and
course evaluations, and handouts with samples of student,
teacher, and administrative collaborative projects. |
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PC 6 |
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PC 7 |
Silvia Spence |
Identifying the role of
webquests in the curriculum through an action research project
http://silviaspence.tripod.com/
The value of using webquests
as preparation for student online research is explored in this
presentation as participants share in the action research
project investigating the possible correlation between the
course objectives and the skills applied in the webquest
activities.
Note: This session was webcast
from the Electronic Village 2:30-2:55 pm US EDT in the
Webheads Virtual Office at LearningTimes.org.
To access the archived session, click
here
(note: You need to be registered with LearningTimes (free). |
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PC 8 |
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PC 9 |
Mary Diaz
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Instructional Applications
of Tablet PC Technology
Tablet PC "inking"
technology offers unique applications for teaching using MS
Word, Windows Journal, and One Note. |
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PC 10 |
Marti
Sevier |
The Compleat Lexical Tutor
is Never Compleat
Tom Cobb continues
to update and embellish the Compleat Lexical Tutor: I will
demonstrate two applications which will be of great interest
to ESL instructors: the Familizer and Key Words.
www.lextutor.ca |
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