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As chair-elect for the CALLIS, I am very excited about the
upcoming convention in New Orleans. The chair-elect position involves
planning the Academic Session and InterSections, and we have some very
interesting sessions lined up. All events take place in the Technology
Showcase.
For our Academic Session this year we are
excited to have the very relevant topic of “Teacher Training
for Web 2.0 and Beyond” on Friday, March 18, from 1:00 to 3:45
p.m. This session will feature many practical pieces of advice
and insight not only for those involved with teacher-training but for
teachers at all levels of experience as well. The presenters include
Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Greg Kessler, Philip Hubbard, and Paige Ware.
They will discuss teacher-training as it relates not only to Web 2.0
technologies but also to the technologies that are developing and those
that teachers may be facing in the future.
For our primary InterSection, the CALLIS
will partner with the Higher Education IS from 10:00 to 11:45
a.m. on Saturday, March 19. The session, “Building
Effective Intercultural Communication in Online Courses,” will
include Dawn Bikowski, Debbie East, Geoff Lawrence, and Sandy Wagner.
This panel will discuss ways to develop practical and pedagogically
sound online courses and activities that help students develop their
intercultural communication skills, including challenges of online
communications, strategies for overcoming them, and training teachers
for this environment. Very relevant for today’s teaching! We also have
two more InterSections this year: with the Materials Writers IS, “Challenges and
Opportunities in Designing New Multimedia ELT Materials” with
Randall Davis, Jennifer Lebedev, Maggie Sokolik, and Sarah Worthington
on Saturday, March 19, from 2:00 to 3:45 p.m., and
with the Elementary Education IS, “Technology in ESOL Classrooms and Preparing Teachers for
Successful Integration,” on Friday, March 18, from
10:00 to 11:45 a.m, with Christel Broady, Karen Kuhel, Ellen
Dougherty, Margaret McKenzie, Stacey Abbott, Sandra Rogers, and Ben
Fabie. They will offer practical advice on making integration
work.
We hope to see you at these popular events! They all take place
in the Technology Showcase and promise to provide
very useful information.
Dawn, bikowski@ohio.edu |
