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
Convention. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL
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. Members of other EFL
organizations, such as IATEFL, are also frequent participants.
The Electronic Village Online Sessions
For five (originally 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) will receive
four weeks of required hands-on training in online discussion management and the use of
Learning Management Systems (LMS), 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?
and see the
Mission of EVO
The sessions run for five weeks in January and February.
For descriptions of prior sessions and information on registration, please click the year on the left.
EVO started as a TESOL Special Project in 1999 and was founded in 2000 by Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Tom Robb, and Susan Gaer.
* It is our pleasure to announce the 20th anniversary of the founding of EVO. We are grateful to and exhilarated and awed by the over 50,000 teachers all over the world that have participated in the EVO sessions since the first offering in 2001. We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of EVO sessions at the Virtual TESOL Convention in Houston, TX in March 2021 and with a special Webinar in Mary 2021.
This page was last updated:
February 3, 2021
Christine Bauer-Ramazani