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| Leadership Updates |
| LETTER FROM CURRENT CHAIR |
| Roger Drury, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
Roger Drury interviewed Claire Siskin and Deborah Healey, who are on the TESOL Board, about their experience, and he discusses the importance of having someone from the CALL-IS on the Board.
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| LETTER FROM THE INCOMING CHAIR |
| Aaron Schwartz, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA |
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Aaron Schwartz, the incoming chair, highlights the changes in the past year in the CALL-IS as well as the field and discusses the 2014 convention
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITOR |
| Larry Udry, Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, USA |
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| Articles |
| "MORE CLEAR" - CLEARER WITH GLOWBE |
| Roger Gee, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Interested in variations in English around the world? Mark Davies has developed a new corpus built of web pages from 20 English-speaking countries. It uses the familiar interface of the Corpus of Contemporary American English to enable searches for words, phrases, and grammatical constructions. Read More |
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| CALL-IS-LTSIG JOINT ONLINE CONFERENCE |
| Paul Sweeney, EduWorlds Knowledge, London, England & Deborah Healey, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA |
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Mr. Paul Sweeney of EduWorlds and Ms. Deborah Healey of the University of Oregon collaborate in this article about the CALL-IS/LT SIG Joint Online Conference this past fall. This joint conference, the first of its kind, set the standard for upcoming collaborations with these two groups. Read More |
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| GOOGLE APPS FOR EDUCATION CERTIFICATION |
| Suzanne Reinhardt, Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, USA |
Suzanne Reinhardt of Divine Word College explains the ins and outs as well as the pedagogy behind the Google Apps for Education Certification Program.
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| TWITTER PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT |
| D. Stephanie Fuccio, MA ESL Candidate at University of Arizona. AZ, USA |
I realized my first year of graduate school that I was quite accidentally compiling scholarly articles by simply keeping up with the TESOL professionals I was following on Twitter. I wondered if this tool could be used by my first-year writing students in our research writing class. In the below activity I was preparing my L2 writing classes at the University of Arizona for future Twitter research. In order to do this I sent them on a Twitter Photo Scavenger Hunt around campus.
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| WATCHING YOUTUBE WITH A PURPOSE: USING VIDEONOT.ES FOR PRACTICING LISTENING AND NOTE-TAKING |
| Evan Simpson, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
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Evan Simpson says that the growth of MOOCs has created the need for a way to take and collect digital notes. He feels that while this need does not directly affect English language teachers, one of the solutions does. A free, web-based application called Videonot.es allows users to take notes and could revolutionize how teachers use videos in and out of the language learning classroom.
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| MAKING CONNECTIONS |
| Suzan Stamper, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong |
This issue of the Making Connections column introduces three members: Dianna Lippincott, Cate Crosby, and Jeff Kuhn.
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| FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM |
| Mardelle Azimi, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA |
This article describes the “Flipping the Classroom” discussion that occurred on the TESOL CALL-IS discussion blog in October 2013, which centered pedagogically on what “flipping” is, how to conduct that type of class, and what crucial issues will arise for both teachers and students.
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| CALL FOR ARTICLES |
| Larry Udry, Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, USA |
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