[PN] Online CALL (18 Dec. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* TESOL Convention CALL online events starting in January

Electronic Village (EV) Online Sessions 2004
"The CALL Interest Section of TESOL is proud to announce its
fourth round of online sessions, including readings, discussions,
chats, guest speakers, and task-based activities.  If you can't
come to the conference, now the conference can come to you!
The EV Online 2004 sessions are held prior to the TESOL Convention
and some in conjunction with Interest Section Academic Sessions
or Strands.  You do NOT have to be a member of TESOL, nor do you
have to register for TESOL 2004, to take part in these FREE  events.
They run for six weeks, from January 26 to March 5, 2004.
Registration for the sessions will be accepted January 12-26, 2004.
Online Sessions offered [with names of moderators and sponsors]:
     * English for everybody; all gain, no loss?
Ulrich Bliesener, Jane Hoelker, Joyce Kling,  Keiko Abe-Ford,
Christine Coombe, Valerie S. Jakar - EFL-Interest Section
     * Real English Online Video - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith,
Michael Marzio - CALL-Interest Section, Video Interest Section
     * TESOL Drama Presents: Let's Put on a Play
Nigel Caplan,  Gary Carkin, Judy Trupin - SPL-IS/TESOL Drama
     * Becoming a Webhead - Dafne Gonzalez, Teresa Almeida d'Eca,
Susanne Nyrop, Maria Jordano - CALL-Interest Section
     * Creating interactive online language lessons with
Macromedia Flash MX - Marmo Soemarmo - CALL-IS
     * Assessing and Teaching Oral Communication Skills
Rebecca Dauer, Christine Parkhurst - SPL-Interest Section
     * A Basic Workshop for using the Internet in class
JoAnn Miller - CALL-Interest Section
     * Creating and using weblogs in ESL/EFL
Anne Davis, Sandy Peters, Aaron Campbell, Joe Luft - CALL-IS
Complete session descriptions and registration information:
http://www.geocities.com/tesol_evonline/
(best viewed with Internet Explorer)
TESOL's Online Learning Opportunities:
http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/index.html
TESOL Annual Convention in Long Beach, California:
http://www.tesol.org/conv/index-conv.html..
The EV ONLINE team:
Christine Bauer-Ramazani (mailto:cbauer-ramazani@smcvt.edu)
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (mailto:ehansonsmi@yahoo.com)
Vance Stevens (mailto:vstevens@emirates.net.ae )
Chris Jones (mailto:edtec2002@yahoo.com)
Aiden Yeh (mailto:aidenyeh@yahoo.com
Sent by PN subscriber Christine Bauer-Ramazani
School of International Studies, Saint Michael's College, Vermont
Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/
Online CALL course:
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/gsl520_online/demo/CALL_Online_demo.htm

[Compliments and thanks for opening this up to
non-members of TESOL and for free. See you there - Ed.]

* Applied Linguistics position in Brisbane

THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
"We have a new tenure track position in Applied Linguistics.
The areas we are after, apart from a general sound basis
in Applied Linguistics (PhD, teaching and publishing) are:
CALL, technology and communication and/or
intercultural communication and/or
pragmatics, text / conversation analysis." The URL is:
http://www.seek.com.au/users/viewdetails.asp?Action=jobsearch&JobListAction=ViewOneAd&JobSearch=true&AdID=3144797
Sent by PN subscriber Roly Sussex: sussex@uq.edu.au
http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/profiles/sussex.html
Applied linguistics website: http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/
Language Talkback ABC radio: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/
Audio from: http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s782293.htm

* Reference Websites

Effect Of Online Learning On Struggling ESL College Writers
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/Article10275.phtml
Direct: http://www.ericit.org/fulltext/IR021918.pdf

EduTools - Providing decision-making tools for the E-D-U community
[Comparing] Course Management Systems, Student Services,
and e-Learning Policies
http://www.edutools.info/index.jsp

* Periodical articles

Bilingual Asian children 'do better'
By Dominic Casciani, BBC News
Online community affairs reporter, 25 November, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3236188.stm

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
News and Views: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/pdx.html
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
E-mail (including items for Papyrus News): steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp