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Subject: last scheduled webheads event Thu May 11 10:30 GMT
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:19:14 +0400
From: Vance Stevens

Hello All,

Sorry if you are experiencing cross postings ...

It's almost time for our last scheduled Webheads presentation and global teacher/student conference. This is a gathering of 3 communities: online students and online teachers meeting virtually with realtime conference attendees. You are very welcome to join us.

There's been a time change. Our presentation is scheduled one hour earlier than expected but will go as long as we had planned. This means that we will start at:
- 10:30 GMT and finish at 12:15 GMT, Thursday May 11, 2000.

We will meet in voice/text chat, text-only chat, and the Palace. We have learned from previous experiences how to better greet visitors, and we will station a gate-keeper in each chat area. That is, there should be someone in these chats to welcome you as you enter, in case Vance is busy talking to the real audience.

The chat addresses and gatekeepers are:

- voice chat at http://www.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/hearme.htm (Peter in Tokyo)
- text chat at http://www.homestead.com/vstevens/ (Choi in Korea)
- The Palace, efi.virtualscholar.com on port 9998 at 11:30 GMT, May 11, 2000. (Maggi in Germany)

Michael in Australia will also be keeping an eye out in the voice and text chat areas as will Maggi in Germany and Vance in Dubai.

For further information and instructions on the chats and the Palace, see
- http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/software.htm or
- http://www.homestead.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm (mirror).

Reports on this and other similar presentations can be found at
- http://members.tripod.com/vstevens/efi/reports.htm or
- http://www.homestead.com/vstevens/files/efi/reports.htm (mirror)

The conference is Current Trends in English Language Testing 2000
- http://dbm.hct.ac.ae/sponsors/ctelt2000/info.html.

There will be a streaming video feed of keynote addresses live starting Wednesday 10 May from 06:30 GMT. TDr. Cyril Weir (University of Surrey Roehampton) is due to speak at 7:30 GMT and Dr. Keith Richards (Aston University) at 10:00 GMT). You can view the presentations through a browser and Real Media player.
- http://imtcsamba.hct.ac.ae/ctelt2000/

Webheads can be found on the web (where else?) at
- http://www.netword.com/webheads and
- http://www.netword.com/teaching4webheads

Hope to see you there at some point during the conference,

Vance

This update: May 10, 2000