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.

 Good Teaching

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