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Materials Online:
A description of the EVOnline 2002 sessions and where to
find the materials
and selected presentations from the 2002 CALICO and TESOL
Conferences
A presentation given at the
MLI Tuesday, April 23, 2002
by Vance Stevens, MLI CALL
Coordinator
What's this session about? From January thru March 2002, TESOL conducted
a series of workshops covering various topics concerning technology and ESL.
These immediately preceeded the CALICO and TESOL Conferences in Davis,
California and Salt Lake City, Utah. This session introduces various
repositories of documents for these sessions and guides participants through
them.
1. The TESOL EV(Electronic Village)Online
Sessions
There are two ways to access these sites: the right
way and the quick way
- The right way: Join the group(s) you are interested in
as you would any YahooGroup e.g. send email to the address(es) above.
Then use the http://www.groups.yahoo.com addresses to 'activate' your
profile/membership in that group, so you can access the files, bookmarks,
messages, and other materials at the group's YahooGroups site . For more
information, look here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/week1.htm#get_yahooID
- The quick way (for MLI staff only): I have set up a
dummy an 'mliteachers' Yahoo account and enrolled it with the groups above
still accepting enrollment. Visit http://www.yahoogroups.com and log on
using this account to gain access to the files. I'm not sure if more than
one person using the same account can log in at any one time; please don't use
this account for any email or postings to any group.
What's especially interesting at these
sites?
Note: by 'especially interesting' I mean particularly
warranting exploration, in the opinion of the presenter, by ESL and FL teachers
at the MLI in Abu Dhabi, the intended audience for this
presentation
An Internet Workshop for Beginners: Using
existing activities and designing your own
This workshop covered various aspects of using Internet with language
learners. Although geared toward beginners, the participants were rapidly
guided to higher skill levels through a trial and feedback heuristic. The
discussion for this workshop attested to the validity of the topics which
maintained high interest level of the participants.
Topics getting high ratings include:
Ways to Use Video in the Language
Classroom
The documents for this session amount to a handbook on rationale for and
use of scenes from full length (and even full length) video in the classroom,
and end with practical tips for shooting videos and using them in projects with
students. The documents in the files folders at the website are helpfully given
as both Word and HTML files, and sometimes even PowerPoint (for web access the
HTML files are easiest to view, but the PowerPoints are effective if in
presentation mode/mood).
Topics of particular interest:
Using the Internet in teaching ESL
composition
This site was particularly interesting due to its emphasis on Markin.
However, references to and even postings discussing Markin appear to have been
removed from the website at this time. Even in two works explaining and linking
to Markin, one by Tom Robb and another by Martin Holmes, the links providing
access to Markin do not connect. There are still documents here pertaining to
using the Internet in composition instruction.
Some links:
About Markin, which is not easy to find ... here's info available April
2002
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This just in from Martin Holmes, January 31,
2003
Markin is alive and well and living here:
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/index.htm
It is, and always has been, entirely my own work. Roy Bowers,
prior to his death, was doing some interesting experimentation with online
marking which I mentioned here back in 1996:
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Holmes-ComputerMarking/
I had already written the first version of Markin, for my own
use, before I came across his work; as far as I remember, he was using an
entirely online system, whereas Markin is a standalone Windows application that
produces HTML pages. It's currently in version 3, and has been on release as
commercial shareware for many years. To my knowledge, no other application has
been called "Markin" apart from mine, and Roy Bowers never used the name
"Markin" in relation to any of his work. Markin has always been published by my
brother's company, Creative Technology, in the UK (along with TexToys);
Creative is also responsible for www.hotpotatoes.net, in collaboration
with our own company, Half-Baked Software. I wrote about Markin in this
article:
"Approaches to Marking Electronic Texts". (Conference
presentation and article) Proceedings of the FLEAT III Conference; IALL
Journal, Vol. 31 No. 3. University of Victoria; IALL. 1997; 1999.
Many years ago, the Website for my applications at Creative
was here: http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/creative/education/languages/martin/ .
That URL has been obsolete for several years, and redirects were switched off a
few years after the change to www.cict.co.uk. |
CALL and the Human Spirit
The documents here provide current insights on the rationale of CALL,
particularly as it pertains to the human interface. This session served as a
lead-up to the CALL-IS Academic Session which was
webcast from Salt Lake City in live audio and video.
Sample readings at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Human_CALL/files/
Managing NS-NNS teachers of English: Maintaining
equality in the workplace
This session explored the many tensions between native and non-native
target language speakers in the workplace, often in the same jobs but with
unequal status and pay. The session examined the many positive and negative
aspects of this relationship and their ramifications. Depth of discussion was
provided by the occasional appearance of highly regarded figures who set up
websites and led discussions for a week or so.
Webheads in Action: Community formation online
and its role in language learning
Patterned on a community of language learners that has been meeting
consistently online for three years, this session set out to apply principles
learned in that endeavor toward the formation of a community of peers (a
community of practice). The community engaged intensively for 8 weeks in
comprehensive exploration of various synchronous and asynchronous online
multimedia (text, video, and audio) communications tools. Evidence that a
community of practice was indeed formed lies in the fact that rather than
disbanding, the community continues to engage in frequent email exchange and
synchronous online encounters a month after the 'end' of the session.
Some syllabus items:
2. Selected presentations from
the 2002 CALICO and TESOL Conferences
CALICO 2002 Annual
Symposium: Creating Virtual Language Learning Communities -
http://calico.org/CALICO02 March 26 -
March 30, 2002, University of California, Davis
Gently Down the Stream John Vitaglione, LARC, San Diego
State University http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
- In maintaining its Digital Media Archive (DMA), LARC aims to provide
educators and learners with 'fast access to authentic language materials for
teaching and learning foreign language.' It also aims to provide educators who
can provide royalty-free videos a range of tools to aid in development of
derivative materials which will help to 'populate' the database.
The 'Best' of TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit -
http://www.tesol.org/
April 9-13, 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah
Using QuickTime in CALL Multimedia Materials Development,
Douglas Mills, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Greg
Kessler, Ohio University, Athens; Claire Bradin Siskin, University
of Pittsburgh
The presenters have created a web site showing how to create QT
panoramas and make elements in them hyperlinkable (for example to other
panoramas, hence the means to create interactive virtual reality materials a la
Escape from Planet Arizona). They also show how to trigger events in
movies that open other html documents (in separate frames, while the movie
continues running for example).
http://edtech3.cet.uiuc.edu/dmills/QT/TESOL/;
actual QT video taken live at TESOL presentation here:
http://edvista.com/claire/qt/vancetesol2002/index.html
Links to Internet Fair presentations
http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2002/
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