Session

Moderators

Short Description

An ESP Potpourri: Business, Legal,
 Science & Technology, and Medical ESP

Buthaina Al-Othman
Christine Parkhurst
Debra Lee
Mark R. Freiermuth

This EVO 2007 session covers a one-week discussion of four English for Specific Purposes content areas: Business English, Legal English, English for Science and Technology, English for Health Care. Each content week will have a moderator with experience in the field.

JoAnn Miller

This session covers: (1) what is available for teachers on the Internet, (2) how to find information (3) how to make two kinds of original activities (4) how to develop a personal website where activities and assignments can be posted.

Becoming a Webhead

Dafne Gonzalez
Teresa Almeida d'Eca
Cora Chen
Cristina Costa
Hala Fawzi
Moira Hunter

BaW07 is a hands-on workhop where participants and moderators 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 Beginners

Gladys Baya
Carla Arena
M. Claudia Bellusci
Erika Cruvinel

This session provides participants with different ways in which blogging can be integrated into their teaching.

Graham Stanley
Kyle Mawer
Nicholas Noakes
Rita Zeinstejer

This group will be exploring the growing interest of teachers in appealing to their computer gaming students, looking at why and how digital games can be included in language teaching and learning.

E-assessment tools 
for language teaching

Hyman Wong
Anna Koorey
Hanna Prashker

This session studies the opportunities for electronic assessment in language teaching. Different assessment tools will be introduced. Participants will have hands-on opportunities to explore and evaluate different tools for e-assessment.

Ryan Detwiler
Nicolas Gromik

This is a workshop for all teachers interested in learning how to create and share video on the Web, what kinds of video projects other teachers are producing with their classes, and how they're doing it.

Gary Carkin
Nigel Caplan
Sarah Dodson-Knight
Judy Trupin
Yordana Hristosova
Susan Hillyard

This group is for all ESOL teachers who have an interest in teaching English through drama at the elementary, secondary, or tertiary levels.

Thomas Gault

This session explores the assumptions held by adult language learners as to what are good teaching methods. It will consider both individual preferences, and preferences that are linked to educational level and cultural background.

Teaching with PowerPoint

Christine Bauer-Ramazani
Paula Emmert
Roger Drury
Kent Matsueda
Jessica Noyes
Sandy Wagner

This session will cover the basics and beyond the basics of using PowerPoint in the classroom.

Tips and Tricks for Successful
Online Teaching and Learning:
Facilitating Authentic Use of English

Dave Winet

Participants will discuss and implement some of the approaches and techniques that can promote an effective online learning environment.

Webcast Academy

Jeff Lebow
Graham Stanley
Vance Stevens

The Webcast Academy is a hands -on, collaborative training center for people interested in learning how to produce and host live, interactive Webcasts.

Webpublishing in Open
Participatory Environments

Barbara Dieu
Patricia Glogowski
Scott Lockman
Nicholas Noakes
Graham Stanley

This session is aimed at teachers who have already experimented with blogs and podcasts either for their own use or with classes and who would like to extend their technical and pedagogical knowledge of these social tools, RSS and tagging to help learners interact with the Web at large and create networks according to their own interests.

1. Registration

January 1 - 14, 2007

2. Sessions

Monday, January 15 - Sunday, February 25, 2007 (6 weeks)

3. 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