| Mini-Workshops in the EV |
| TESOL 2008 |
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| The EV Mini-workshops are ticketed,
limited seating events for hands-on workshops during which participants
have the opportunity to create a product or gain depth in the use of software
for CALL purposes. |
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| Tickets are free on a first-come basis in the EV during the conference after 9AM
on Thursday, April 3, 2008. |
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| Schedule |
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| Thursday, April 3, 2008 |
| 12:00-1:30 |
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| DIY - Do It Yourself Tech Projects |
| Michal Eskayo, Gitte Maronde,
Denise Maduli-Williams |
| meskayo@gmail.com |
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| Join us for a hands-on workshop of
Do-It-Yourself Tech Projects. Discover how to enhance students' learning with
collaborative tech projects that include Jeopardy, podcasting, Photostories,
voice email, blogs and wikis. Participants work collaboratively and then
present their completed projects. The tools are appropriate for all ages,
levels and classroom settings. |
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| Using Corpora in the Classroom |
| Gena Bennett, Anne
Bruehler, Meredith
Bricker |
| genabennett@yahoo.com |
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| In this workshop, participants will learn
how to download and use the freely available concordancing program TextSTAT
to search for errors in student writing and create corpus-driven activities
to improve grammar in writing. |
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| Friday, April 4, 2008 |
| 12:00-1:30 |
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| Second Life |
| for Second and Foreign Language Learners |
| Vance Stevens |
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| The presenter will demonstrate how to
create virtual identities, chat, talk, make gestures, show objects, fly and
teleport using Second Life to foster students' language
skills.
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| Using Animations and Page Flakes |
| for Instruction and Assessment |
| Serpil Sonmez & Sebahat Secil Poyraz |
| serpilsonmez@yahoo.com |
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| Participants will learn to create animated
stories, songs, and movies using DFilm and Jing. Participants will leave with
their own educational websites and with sample instructional animations and
language skills tests that can be accessed online, and can be used with iPods
and other mobile devices. |
http://www.pageflakes.com/serpilsonmez/
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| Saturday, April 5, 2008 |
| 12:00-1:30 |
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| Creating Customized Online Quizzes with
Hot Potatoes |
| Min Jung Jee |
| mjjee@mail.utexas.edu |
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| The most popular and free authoring tool
Hot Potatoes creates interactive web-based quizzes. This workshop is designed
to present and to give participants opportunities to practice the procedures
for making 5 different forms of quizzes using Hot Potatoes and uploading the
quizzes on the Web. |
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| Capture ELL Students with Digital
Storytelling |
| Andrette Duncan |
| andrette.duncan@pgcps.org |
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| Participants will be exposed to
Microsoft's Photo Story 3, a free tool for using digital storytelling to
support curriculum. Workshop includes
handouts with illustrated step-by-step directions, suggestions for projects
at various levels of ELL proficiency, sources for copyright free music and
photographs and evaluation rubrics for student projects. Note: Participants should be comfortable
using technology (emailing, downloading, and saving files). |
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92755126-a008
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| Saturday, April 5, 2008 |
| 3:30-5:00 |
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| Training Online Teachers Online |
| David
Winet & Lucy Pickering |
| dwinet@transbay.net |
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| Our EV mini-workshop will give
participants a taste of how TEFL students can be trained to become online
teachers and will let workshop participants try their hand at teaching a
mini-class themselves to live students around the globe. |
| http://www.nicenet.org
class key: 6Z73208A32 Reviewers |
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| Using Windows Movie Maker |
| Pedro Mayoral & Secundino Isabeles |
| pett30@hotmail.com |
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| Using WMM allows you to convert plain
books into dynamic animated stories to use as storytelling resources. The
participants will learn how to use the WMM tools to add movement, special
effects, voice and music to the movie. At the end they will have a nice movie
ready for use. |
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